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A Ten-Year Project Finally Reaches the Shelf For ten years, a small team in Shelbyville, Kentucky worked on something most bourbon drinkers never knew existed. There was no product on shelves, no marketing campaign, no name people could search for. Just three people quietly building what would bec

For forty years, bourbon drinkers have known the name Elmer T. Lee as a kind of shorthand for doing things the right way. Now, for the first time, Buffalo Trace Distillery is letting people taste that philosophy exactly as it comes out of the barrel, with nothing added and nothing taken away.

Loch Lomond's Waypoint 31 Year Old: The Oldest Peated Single Malt the Distillery Has Ever Released There's a particular kind of patience required to make whisky that most people will never get to try. Thirty-one years of waiting while the world outside the warehouse shifts and changes — while dist

Ardbeg Trudernish: The Distillery's First Permanent 15-Year-Old Is Here — And It's Already Winning Gold There are moments in the Scotch whisky world that feel genuinely overdue, and the arrival of Ardbeg Trudernish is one of them. Ardbeg has unveiled the first permanent 15-year-old expression to i

Scotland's Homegrown Distilleries Are on the Rise — and the Industry Will Never Look the Same There is a particular kind of audacity required to build a whisky distillery in one of the most remote glens in Scotland, on land that was once a smuggling route, wedged between two Munros, and accessible

September Means Bourbon, and This Year a Texas Brand Wants a Seat at the Table Every September, whiskey drinkers across the country mark Bourbon Heritage Month by pulling out their favorite pours and maybe trying something new. This year, a Texas-based whiskey company called Koopers Whiskey is usi

President Trump has moved to block certain Canadian alcoholic beverages from entering the United States, escalating a fight over liquor sales that has dragged on for more than eighteen months. The action, signed in September 2026, targets Canada over what the White House calls continued discriminat

For more than ten years, the story in the American spirits business was simple: people kept trading up. A guy drinking a mid-shelf bourbon moved into something nicer. A guy already buying the good stuff started looking at limited releases and small-batch bottles that cost twice as much. Even in yea

A New Round Of Tariff Relief Lands In Ireland President Trump has announced plans to lift tariffs on Irish whiskey while visiting Ireland, marking the latest move in what has become a broader rollback of trade barriers affecting the spirits industry. The announcement did not come out of nowhere. I

The group of major players guiding spirits policy in the United States just got a new name on its roster, and it's one that's been around a lot longer than the trade association itself. Disaronno International USA has signed on as a director member of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United Sta