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A British court has delivered one of the clearest and most damning verdicts yet against the predatory underbelly of the Scotch whisky investment market. On August 25, 2026, the High Court in London wound up Cask Spirits Global Limited, a whisky cask investment firm whose customers paid for casks th

India Turns Up the Heat on Big Whisky: FSSAI Raids Pernod Ricard's Bengaluru Plant in Sweeping Industry Crackdown India's spirits market has long been one of the most coveted growth frontiers in the global drinks industry — a country of 1.4 billion people with a rising middle class, accelerating p

Scotland's Oldest Distillery Goes on Offense Against Whisky Cask Fraud The whisky investment world has a fraud problem, and it has been festering for years. Cask traders have built entire business models on the aspirations of buyers who want a piece of Scotland's liquid heritage — and in far too m

Diageo's Indian Empire Under Fire: What the Royal Challenge Maturation Scandal Means for the Global Whisky Industry India's food safety regulator has trained its sights on one of the world's biggest spirits conglomerates over a labeling claim that sits at the very heart of whisky authenticity: wha

The Fall of "The People's CEO": How Fawn Weaver Lost the Whiskey Empire She Built There is a particular cruelty to watching someone be separated from the thing they created. For Fawn Weaver, that moment arrived quietly on June 1, 2026 — not with a press release or a public statement, but with a te

The Uncle Nearest Lawsuit Just Got a Whole Lot More Complicated What started as a straightforward — if brutal — secured lending dispute has exploded into something far messier, and far more revealing about the inner workings of one of American whiskey's most celebrated brands. The court-appointed

The Fall of an American Whiskey Icon: How Uncle Nearest Went from Billion-Dollar Darling to Courtroom Battleground For a few shining years, Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey looked like one of the most remarkable success stories in the history of American spirits. Built on the recovered legacy of a fo

Same Company, Different Name, Same Playbook: The ASA Takes Another Swing at Capgroup Int There is a particular audacity to getting caught running misleading advertising, rebranding twice, and then getting caught again doing the very same thing. That is precisely where Capgroup Int Ltd finds itself

Nearly 11,000 Bottles of Noble Oak Bourbon Vanish from North Philadelphia Warehouse in Brazen Midday Heist Sometime between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on a Friday afternoon in early June, a crew of thieves pulled off what law enforcement and spirits industry insiders are already calling one of the most aud

A Federal Shadow Falls Over Uncle Nearest Whiskey What began as one of American whiskey's most celebrated comeback stories — a brand built on the legacy of the first known Black master distiller in U.S. history — now reads more like a cautionary tale about overextension, financial opacity, and the