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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

Some things can't be rushed, and a good whiskey is one of them. That is the thinking behind two new bottles from Root Shoot Spirits, a Loveland, Colorado distillery that has just put out its first 6-year American Single Malt whiskeys. The announcement came on September 15, 2026. Both bottles are li

Some whiskey bottles disappear from the shelf before most people know they exist. That is what happened to the Honey Bourbon and Honey Rye Cask Whiskeys from Blue Note Bourbon in Memphis, Tennessee. Both sold out fast in each of the past two years. Now the third annual release is here, and the comp

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