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A Chinese Distillery Just Won Gold at the World Whisky Masters — And the Industry Should Be Paying Attention When Diageo quietly unveiled its first Chinese whisky distillery in the remote highlands of Yunnan Province in late 2024, the global spirits world took notice — cautiously. The questions we

Back-to-Back: Grasmere Distillery Earns Second Consecutive World Whisky Masters Medal for Its Single Malt New Make Spirit There is a small operation tucked inside two converted barns on the shores of Grasmere, in the heart of England's Lake District, that is quietly rewriting the story of English

Taiwan's Finest Just Did It Again: Kavalan Solist Oloroso Sherry Wins TWSC 2026 Best of the Best There is a particular kind of quiet confidence that comes with a fourth consecutive championship in any discipline. Athletes know it. Championship franchises know it. And as of August 4, 2026, Kavalan

There's a whisky coming out of a small village in northern India that keeps doing something nobody expected a few years back. It's not just winning awards. It's sweeping them. And this summer, it happened again in a big way. Indri Single Malt, made by Piccadily Agro Industries, took first, se

There's a moment every guy who's ever sat around a campfire knows well. You're warm, you're comfortable, the flames are crackling, and everything inside that circle of light feels safe and familiar. But turn your head just a few feet past the fire's edge, and the world goes dark. That gap between w

Smokeye Hill's Blended Rye Takes Double Platinum — And Raises Some Important Questions Colorado Springs doesn't exactly roll off the tongue when the conversation turns to great American rye whiskey. Kentucky and Indiana dominate that conversation, with Tennessee occasionally muscling in. But Smoke

Bradshaw Bourbon's "Best in Show" Win Is No Celebrity Stunt — It's the Real Deal There is a particular brand of skepticism that greets any bottle bearing a celebrity's name. The sports fan in the liquor aisle eyes the label, clocks the famous face, and assumes the liquid inside is secondary to the

There are certain titles in American whiskey that show up every autumn like an old friend — reliable, admired, almost taken for granted by those who follow the category closely enough. George T. Stagg is one of them. And yet, no matter how many times that dark bottle from Frankfort, Kentucky, steps

Jim Gaffigan's Fathertime Bourbon Wins Best New Bourbon at the 2026 San Francisco World Spirits Competition Celebrity spirits are everywhere these days, and most of them are exactly what you'd expect: a famous face slapped on a bottle of sourced whiskey with a sky-high price tag and zero soul behi

There's a reason more bourbon drinkers are looking past Kentucky these days, and a distillery out of Centennial, Colorado just gave everyone another reason to pay attention. Branch & Barrel Distilling walked away with four medals from the Bartenders Spirits Awards and two more from the SIP A