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Ardbeg Dark Reserve: The Peatiest Distillery on Islay Goes Deep Into Sherry Territory With an Exclusive for The Whisky Club Ardbeg has never been a distillery that does anything quietly. From its dramatic coastal perch on the southern shore of Islay to its devoted global cult following, every rele

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

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

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

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

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

Hooten Young and Jack Carr Team Up Again for the Warrior Select Bourbon — A 10-Year Limited Release Timed to The Terminal List Season 2 There is a specific kind of credibility that very few whiskey brands can actually claim without overreaching: the kind forged not in a marketing boardroom, but

Sean Josephs Is Building Something New — And It's Not for Everyone There is a particular kind of ambition that doesn't announce itself with a press tour or a splashy national rollout. It shows up quietly, in the form of 210 bottles, a tiered membership structure, and a blending philosophy that tak

Most bottles of blended Scotch whisky keep their secrets. The label gives a name, maybe an age, and not much else. For most drinkers, what's actually inside the bottle stays a guess. Compass Box, the London-based whiskymaker, has spent years pushing back against that. Its newest release puts the wh

Bourbon drinkers tend to be creatures of habit. They find a bottle they like, they learn where it sits on the shelf, and they reach for it without much thought. So when a well-known brand changes the look of every bottle it sells, people notice. When it also changes what's inside a few of those bot