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Pennsylvania Senate Moves to Crown Rye Whiskey as the Official Spirit of the Commonwealth A bill that would make rye whiskey the official state spirit of Pennsylvania cleared its first major legislative hurdle this week, advancing through the State Government Committee and heading to a full Senate

The Bourbon Boom Is Over. Now What? For roughly two decades, the American bourbon industry operated with the quiet confidence of a category that could do no wrong. Distilleries expanded. Warehouses filled. Allocated bottles became cultural currency. Tourists flooded into Kentucky to take barrel to

The Biggest Whiskey Market in the World Has Been Almost Off-Limits to American Bourbon. That Could Finally Change. In Washington, the conversations happening right now between American trade officials and their Indian counterparts may carry more weight for the bourbon industry than anything that h

Miles Munroe Leaves Westward Whiskey After 13 Years, Launches Grimoire Spirits The American single malt whiskey category lost one of its most consequential architects last week. Miles Munroe, the master blender who spent thirteen years shaping Westward Whiskey's identity from the inside out, has d

Jefferson's Bourbon Drops Founder's Reserve 20-Year: A 250-Bottle Salute to America's 250th Birthday Some bourbon releases arrive with a quiet dignity that only time can manufacture. Jefferson's Bourbon's new Founder's Reserve 20-Year-Old is one of those bottles — not loud, not overproduced, but u

Montana's Oldest Distillery Marks America's 250th Birthday With a Five-Year Bourbon Built for the Moment Not every anniversary bottle deserves serious attention. The spirits industry has a long history of slapping a commemorative label on an existing product and calling it a limited release. What

The Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye 13 Year Just Hit $1,149.99 — Here's What That Number Actually Means When a bottle of whiskey drops in price by $450, that ordinarily qualifies as good news. But the Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye 13 Year operates on a different register entirely — one where "good n

The Bourbon Bubble Has Deflated — and American Whiskey Is Looking Outward to Survive For the better part of two decades, American whiskey producers could do almost no wrong. Bourbon was the darling of the domestic spirits industry — a red, white, and blue success story built on premiumization, coc

George Washington's Spirit of '76: Mount Vernon Drops the First Bourbon Ever Made at America's Most Historic Distillery On the Fourth of July, 2026 — the exact date America marks its 250th birthday — George Washington's Mount Vernon will release something that has never existed before: a bourbon.

When Kentucky bourbon and Chinese baijiu collide in the same bottle, the result is something the American whiskey world has never quite seen before. A Kentucky distillery and a Chinese spirit maker have partnered to create a new whiskey that draws from two of the world's most storied distilling tra