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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

Jack Daniel's Tennessee Blackberry Is More Than a Flavored Whiskey — It's a Business Lifeline In the summer of 2025, the Jack Daniel Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee did something that raised eyebrows among traditionalists and sparked genuine curiosity among everyday drinkers: it dropped a black

Sixty-one is not a number lawyers throw around lightly. That's how many organizations, states, and legal scholars just told the U.S. Supreme Court they think a 158-year-old federal law needs to go. Not a handful of activists. Not one advocacy group with an axe to grind. Sixty-one separate parties,

Canada's War on American Whiskey: A New Survey Shows the Boycott Has Deep Roots — and American Distillers Are Paying the Price The numbers are in, and they are uncomfortable reading for anyone with a stake in American bourbon or whiskey. Nearly seven in 10 Canadians believe the government should m

The Dog Toy That Wouldn't Die: Ninth Circuit Hands Jack Daniel's Another Courtroom Defeat in the Bad Spaniels Saga After more than a decade of litigation that has wound through federal district courts, the Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court, a squeaky rubber dog toy shaped like a b

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