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The Bourbon Bubble Has Burst — and Newport's New Riff Is Ready for It The good times in bourbon were never going to last forever. For roughly two decades, American whiskey producers rode one of the most extraordinary consumer booms the spirits industry had ever seen — a gold rush that filled rickh

The World's Most Remote Whisky Warehouse: Scientists Begin Formal Analysis of Antarctica-Matured Isla Marambio Whisky has been aged in cold stone warehouses in the Scottish Highlands, sun-baked rickhouses in Kentucky, and high-altitude distilleries in the Himalayas. But nothing in the 500-year his

The Great Scotch Reckoning: How an Industry Built on Scarcity and Prestige Is Learning to Price Itself Back Into Reality There is a particular kind of hubris that thrives in industries where the product takes decades to mature. Scotch whisky, more than almost any other category, has operated for t

Scotch Whisky Makes History in Argentina With Landmark Geographical Indication — And Now It's Turning One For decades, anyone wandering the aisles of a Buenos Aires liquor store could find bottles that traded freely on the cachet of Scotland without bearing much legal obligation to actually be fro

Luca Mariano Distillery Sold for $19.5 Million: Inside the Kentucky Bourbon Industry's Sharpest Fall from Grace A Kentucky bourbon distillery that spent years building toward a grand opening — only to collapse under the weight of tens of millions in debt just weeks after cutting the ribbon — has f

Crown Royal's Amherstburg Plant Finally Finds a Buyer — But the Full Story Is Messier Than the Press Release After months of political theater, union grief, border-town anxiety, and a whisky bottle theatrically poured out on live television, the Crown Royal bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ontari

Nashville's Happenstance Whiskey Moves Into New Jersey With Fedway Associates There are a lot of bourbon brands chasing shelf space these days, but few doing it on the terms that Happenstance Whiskey has set for itself. Happenstance is a 100% women-owned whiskey company out of Nashville, Tennessee

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

Washington Fires Back: The CANADA Act and the Fight to Reclaim America's Most Important Whiskey Market For more than sixteen months, a half-empty shelf at a Toronto LCBO has functioned as the most vivid symbol of a trade war that most bourbon drinkers never saw coming. Where Jack Daniel's and Mich