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Wheel Horse Whiskey has brought back its Cigar Blend Bourbon for fall 2026 . The brand calls it the "most awarded limited release of the year." It is a five-year-old bourbon at 101 proof, finished in a mix of wine and brandy barrels. The price is $43.99 a bottle, and only 6,000 bottles were made.

Penelope Bourbon's Cigar Sessions: Chapter 2 Is Built Different — and the Alec Bradley Partnership Proves It When Penelope Bourbon launched its Cigar Sessions series in June 2025, the concept was clear enough: craft a whiskey from the ground up with the express purpose of pairing alongside a cigar

A whiskey made from grain grown, malted and distilled within about 30 miles of a single family farm has been named Whisky of the Year at the 2026 London Spirits Competition. Root Shoot Spirits, based in Loveland, Colorado, is now selling that bottle and four other releases online. The shipping is n

Lost Lantern Teams Up With a Tennessee Legend Most whiskey drinkers know George Dickel by its label. Fewer know how much else the Tennessee distillery has been making behind the scenes. That is about to change. Vermont independent bottler Lost Lantern announced on September 29, 2026, that its Fall

One Man Walked Into the Kentucky Bourbon Festival. He Left Owning a Barrel. Bardstown, Kentucky knows how to put on a show. Every September, the self-styled Bourbon Capital of the World earns that title all over again when the Kentucky Bourbon Festival takes over the grounds of Spalding Hall and d

There was a time when a bottle of well-aged bourbon didn't cost a small fortune. You walked into the store, picked up something with a few years on it, and paid a fair price. Nobody called it "premium," and nobody expected you to take out a loan to enjoy a decent drink after work. A distillery in G

Royal Caribbean Is Bringing the Kentucky Bourbon Trail to the High Seas — and It's Dead Serious About It For most bourbon lovers, the Kentucky Bourbon Trail means a road trip: long stretches of bluegrass highway, limestone-filtered creek water, rickhouses baking in the August sun. It does not, his

Skrewball's PB&J Whiskey Is the Brand's Most Ambitious Move Since 2018 Eight years ago, Steven and Brittany Yeng introduced America to something it didn't know it needed: peanut butter whiskey. The reaction from the spirits industry was somewhere between bewilderment and outright dismissal. Ba

Heaven Hill Turns a Spelling Spat Into a Global Marketing Moment for Elijah Craig There are few arguments in the spirits world more reliably guaranteed to ignite a bar-room debate than the spelling of the drink in the glass. Whiskey or whisky? With an "e" or without? Depending on which side of the

Widow Jane Black Opal Returns: Brooklyn's Most Ambitious Bourbon Gets Even More Daring in 2026 There are limited releases, and then there is Black Opal. When Widow Jane first unveiled its flagship ultra-aged bourbon in the fall of 2024, it rewrote the ceiling on what a Brooklyn distillery could pu