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Redwood Empire's "The Hyperion" Is the Most Ambitious California Whiskey Release in Years Something rare happened in American whiskey this August. A California distillery — one built on approachable, terroir-forward blends — threw out the rulebook entirely and started from scratch. The result is

Still Austin's 2026 Fall Bottled in Bond Ties Its Own Age Record — and the Clock Is Still Ticking Every year, when the Texas heat begins its slow, grudging retreat and the Hill Country starts to exhale, Still Austin Whiskey Co. drops its Fall Bottled in Bond Straight Bourbon. It is the anchor of t

Kansas City's Whiskey Comeback Story Gets Its Biggest Chapter Yet There's something about waiting ten years for anything that feels almost foreign these days. Ten years of patience, in a world where most things get rushed out the door the moment they're marketable. But that's exactly what J. Riege

The Dalmore Distillery Select 2026: Sicily Meets the Scottish Highlands in One of the Year's Most Compelling Limited Releases There are distilleries that churn out limited releases the way a factory churns out widgets — annual drops timed to marketing calendars, dressed up in gilded language and s

Fireball Torch'd Vanilla Is Here, and It Might Be the Brand's Best Move Yet Fireball has never been shy about who it is. The brand built its entire platform off a whisky made for shots and for having a good time, achieving viral status at Pitbull concerts and leaning hard into its well-known tagli

When Michter's dropped the news at the end of August 2026, it arrived with the kind of casual confidence that only a distillery operating at the very top of its game can muster. On the heels of being named The World's #1 Most Admired Whiskey for an unprecedented fourth consecutive year, Michter's a

New Riff's Sherry Finish Malted Rye Is Back — and It's Better Than Ever Northern Kentucky's New Riff Distilling has never been a distillery content to stand still. Since its founding in 2014, the Newport-based operation has stacked accolades, pushed category boundaries, and built a reputation as o

Bardstown Bourbon Company's Fall 2026 Releases: Discovery #14 and Lochs of Jura Are Two of the Most Compelling Whiskeys of the Year Bardstown Bourbon Company has never been a distillery content to do things the conventional way. From the moment it opened its doors in 2016, the Bardstown, Kentucky

Bruichladdich Greener Still: The Final Chapter of the Still Series Closes With a Nod to the Field, Not the Cask Twenty-five years ago, a group of investors with deep roots in the wine trade did something the Scotch whisky industry wasn't expecting: they walked into a shuttered Victorian distillery

Isle of Skye Rum Cask Finish: When Scotland Meets the Caribbean at Under $30 There is a particular kind of audacity involved in releasing a 10-year-old, cask-finished blended Scotch whisky for $27.99 in August 2026, especially when the rest of the category has been quietly passing tariff costs alo