Recent News

The Bourbon Bubble Has Burst — and Newport's New Riff Is Ready for It The good times in bourbon were never going to last forever. For roughly two decades, American whiskey producers rode one of the most extraordinary consumer booms the spirits industry had ever seen — a gold rush that filled rickh

From the Parking Lot to the Bottle: How Blue Lot® Bourbon Became West Virginia's Own There is a particular kind of authenticity that cannot be manufactured by a marketing team or conjured in a boardroom — the kind that comes from years of shared experience, from Saturday afternoons spent in the co

Bardstown Bourbon Company Takes Tropical Seriously: The Story Behind the Victoria Pineapple Barrel Finish There is a particular challenge embedded in the very chemistry of American whiskey that most distillers have simply learned to live with: the near-impossibility of coaxing genuine tropical fru

Luca Mariano Distillery Sold for $19.5 Million: Inside the Kentucky Bourbon Industry's Sharpest Fall from Grace A Kentucky bourbon distillery that spent years building toward a grand opening — only to collapse under the weight of tens of millions in debt just weeks after cutting the ribbon — has f

The Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame's 2026 Class Is Its Most Diverse Yet — and One Name Will Surprise You Every September, the bourbon industry gathers its legends, its lifers, and its rising voices to honor the people who have bent the arc of American whiskey history. This year, the Kentucky Distil

Nashville's Happenstance Whiskey Moves Into New Jersey With Fedway Associates There are a lot of bourbon brands chasing shelf space these days, but few doing it on the terms that Happenstance Whiskey has set for itself. Happenstance is a 100% women-owned whiskey company out of Nashville, Tennessee

Kentucky Bourbon Trail Hits 74 Stops: The Biggest Expansion Yet Reshapes America's Premier Whiskey Tourism Experience The Kentucky Bourbon Trail just got a whole lot longer. The Kentucky Distillers' Association announced this week that four new destinations have joined the legendary self-guided to

Washington Fires Back: The CANADA Act and the Fight to Reclaim America's Most Important Whiskey Market For more than sixteen months, a half-empty shelf at a Toronto LCBO has functioned as the most vivid symbol of a trade war that most bourbon drinkers never saw coming. Where Jack Daniel's and Mich

Where Barrel Char Meets Baseball Chalk: Whiskey Thief and the Louisville Bats Redefine What a Night at the Ballpark Can Be There are cities in America where bourbon is a backdrop — a regional quirk, a tourist trinket, something poured at the hotel bar and promptly forgotten. Louisville is not one

Russell's Reserve 13 Year Old Returns for Spring 2026 — and This One Is Personal Every so often, a bourbon release carries weight that goes beyond the liquid in the bottle. The Spring 2026 edition of Russell's Reserve 13 Year Old is one of those releases. It is a limited, highly anticipated tribut