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Glen Scotia's Icons of Campbeltown No. 4 Is Here — and a Mythical Griffin Is Guarding Every Drop Campbeltown sits at the end of a long, winding peninsula on the southwest coast of Scotland, a place most American whisky drinkers couldn't find on a map but would recognize instantly in the glass. It

Forged in Fire: How Burnt Tavern Bourbon Is Rewriting Kentucky History, One Char at a Time There is no shortage of bourbon brands claiming a deep connection to Kentucky history. Frontier imagery, faded family crests, and distillers with vaguely colonial surnames populate bottle labels across the s

There's a certain kind of whisky release that gets people talking not because of what's in the bottle, but because of what it represents. The Macallan's newest expression, TIME : SPACE Sherry Cask, is exactly that kind of release. On paper, it's a 20-year-old single malt Scotch whisky bottled at 44

A whisky club in India just proved something that sounds almost too simple to matter: sometimes the best way to judge a drink is to know absolutely nothing about it going in. That was the entire premise behind the latest release from Paul John Indian Single Malt Whisky and SMAC India, the country's

Every September, distillers and maltsters across the country mark Craft Malt Month, a shoutout to the small operations that turn raw barley into the base of everything that gets fermented and distilled into whiskey. This year, Seattle's Copperworks Distilling Co. is marking the occasion with someth

There's a moment every serious bourbon drinker chases: the first sip of something that was never watered down to fit a spec sheet. That's the pitch behind the newest release from Knob Creek, and it's arriving just in time for the season when good bottles get passed around living rooms across the co

A Spirit Category Nobody Saw Coming Whiskey drinkers have spent the last decade chasing every angle on the category — high rye mash bills, finishing in wine barrels, single barrel picks, and grain sourced from a single farm down the road. But nobody has really gone after the field pea. Branch &amp

A Ten-Year Project Finally Reaches the Shelf For ten years, a small team in Shelbyville, Kentucky worked on something most bourbon drinkers never knew existed. There was no product on shelves, no marketing campaign, no name people could search for. Just three people quietly building what would bec

For forty years, bourbon drinkers have known the name Elmer T. Lee as a kind of shorthand for doing things the right way. Now, for the first time, Buffalo Trace Distillery is letting people taste that philosophy exactly as it comes out of the barrel, with nothing added and nothing taken away.

Loch Lomond's Waypoint 31 Year Old: The Oldest Peated Single Malt the Distillery Has Ever Released There's a particular kind of patience required to make whisky that most people will never get to try. Thirty-one years of waiting while the world outside the warehouse shifts and changes — while dist