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Scotland's Newest Lowland Single Malt Has Finally Arrived — and It Was Worth the Wait There is a particular kind of anticipation that surrounds a distillery's very first single malt. Unlike a new expression from an established house, the inaugural bottling from a young producer carries the entire

Something has been building along the northern border for a year and a half now, and it finally came to a head. The U.S. government has slapped a 50% tariff on Canadian spirits, and the man running the country's biggest liquor trade group says it's about time. Chris Swonger, who serves as Presi

Whiskey House of Kentucky Earns A2LA Accreditation, Notches Fourth ISO Certification in Two Years In an industry where tradition still largely governs quality assurance, Whiskey House of Kentucky has taken an unmistakably different path. On August 10, 2026, the Elizabethtown distillery announced i

A Third Strike Against Bardstown Bourbon Company: New Lawsuit Deepens Discrimination and Fraud Claims What began as a single whistleblower lawsuit filed in the dead of a Kentucky winter has ballooned into a full-blown legal crisis for one of the bourbon industry's most closely watched distilleries

India's Regulatory Hammer Falls on Diageo: 18,000 Boxes Seized in the World's Hottest Whisky Market The world's largest spirits company woke up to fresh trouble on August 10, 2026, when Indian food safety inspectors seized approximately 18,000 boxes of Diageo liquor bottles from a production facil

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

Next Century Spirits Acquires Chicken Cock Whiskey and the Entire Grain & Barrel Brand Portfolio A North Carolina-based spirits company that has spent the better part of a decade quietly assembling one of the more aggressive brand portfolios in the American spirits industry just made its most

The Mystery Behind Your Whisky's Mango Notes Has Finally Been Solved Any serious whisky drinker who has spent time with an aged single malt — especially one from the Highland or Speyside regions — has likely caught a fleeting whiff of something almost tropical. Not imagined, not conjured from wish

Canadians and Americans have been fighting over booze for a year and a half now, and it's finally starting to look like somebody blinked. On the night of August 18, 2026, President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social account that he was hitting pause on a massive tariff hike that was set to ham

Jack Daniel's Maker Brown-Forman Is Flashing Warning Signs — and the Whole American Whiskey Industry Should Pay Attention For more than 150 years, Brown-Forman Corporation has been one of the most recognizable names in the American spirits business. It survived Prohibition, weathered the long bour