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Benromach has had a 25-year-old in its permanent lineup before. In the early 2000s, shortly after the Speyside distillery came back to life under new owners, a 25 Year Old bottled at 43% ABV sat in the core range, filled with spirit made under the previous owners, before it was quietly discontinued

Jura's New Sherry Cask Range Bridges Scotland and Spain There are distilleries defined by smoke, by altitude, by the particular limestone shelf beneath a Kentucky rickhouse, or by the brine in an island wind. Jura falls squarely into that last category — a single malt shaped as much by geography a

Some whiskey stories begin with a recipe. Others begin with a barrel. The latest chapter from Copperworks Distilling Co. in Seattle starts with a cask that was already old long before anyone in Washington state was making single malt. It spent around two centuries in Spain, quietly doing a job most

Some whiskeys get talked about for a season and then fade. Others take three decades just to reach the starting line. Blade and Bow, the bourbon brand tied to the storied Stitzel-Weller Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky, has announced a new bottling that falls firmly in the second group. It is cal

Johnnie Walker Vault: The Prestige Blend Built on Scotland's Most Legendary Ghost Distillery There are ghost distilleries, and then there is Brora. The Highland single malt that fell silent on a cold March day in 1983 has spent the four decades since accruing a cult following that borders on the o

Barrell Craft Spirits has built its name on doing things a little differently. Since 2013, the Louisville, Kentucky company has worked as an independent blender, pulling together aged, cask strength whiskeys from different places and shaping them into something new. Its latest release may be one of

Bardstown, Kentucky has been making whiskey for a long time, and few places there can claim the kind of history Barton 1792 Distillery carries. On October 28, 2026, the distillery announced a new release that takes one of its best-known bottles and pushes it into stronger territory. The new whiskey

From the Black Sea to the Barrelhouse: Chattanooga Whiskey's Moldovan Ice Wine Cask Finished Is Unlike Anything in Tennessee There is no shortage of cask-finished whiskeys on American shelves right now. Port, sherry, rum, even tequila — the list of "finishing" vessels has grown long enough that th

A Bourbon Built Around the Night Everything Burned Some whiskey gets its story from a clever bit of marketing. Heaven Hill Phoenix gets its story from a real disaster. Thirty years after a fire tore through the original Heaven Hill distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, the company has announced a lim

KNOBEL Drops a Seven-Year Single Barrel to Mark Eighteen Years of Skilled Trades Advocacy On October 8, 2026, KNOBEL Spirits LLC did something that the American whiskey market does not see every day: it released a limited-run, barrel-strength Tennessee whiskey not primarily to chase collectors or