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Buzzard's Roost French Double Oak Bourbon Returns
Buzzard's Roost French Double Oak Bourbon Is Back — and It's Borrowed Straight from the Wine World's Most Celebrated Forest There are bourbon releases that show up, fill a slot on a shelf, and disappear. Then there are releases that sell out fast enough to create a waiting list the next time aroun
Four Roses Honey Cask Bourbon: A Sweet New Experiment
Four Roses Experimental Series No. 002 Honey Cask Finish: The Bourbon World's Most Inventive New Release There's a moment when a distillery stops playing it safe and starts making history. For Four Roses, that moment arrived in the spring of 2026, when the Lawrenceburg, Kentucky institution releas
Strathearn Batch 03: Scotland's Tiniest Distillery Evolves
Strathearn's Batch 03 Arrives: Scotland's Tiniest Distillery Goes Deeper Into Sherry Territory There is a particular kind of patience required to appreciate what is happening at Strathearn Distillery in Perthshire, Scotland. Every production shift, the small crew fires up the stills and makes enou
Bruichladdich Octomore 17 Series: The World's Peatiest Whisky
Bruichladdich's Octomore 17 Series Is Here, and It's Still the Most Provocative Whisky in the World There's a particular kind of audacity baked into every bottle of Octomore. It's not the audacity of age — these whiskies are young by Scotch standards. It's not the audacity of obscurity, either, si
Baker's 13 Year Old Bourbon Returns at 107 Proof
Baker's 13 Year Old Returns: A 107-Proof Single Barrel Bourbon Worth Hunting Down There are bourbon releases that get the internet clicking, and then there are releases that mean something. Baker's 13 Year Old Single Barrel — bottled at 107 proof, drawn from one barrel at a time, and aged for no f
Redwood Empire's Hyperion Blends Four Whiskey Styles
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
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
J. Rieger & Co. Debuts Its First 10-Year Bourbon
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 2026 Distillery Select: Sicily Meets the Highlands
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: The Brand's Boldest Flavor Move
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
