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A Half-Century in the Cask: Glenmorangie's $36,000 Answer to What Time Tastes Like Some milestones in whisky history arrive with fanfare proportional to their rarity. September 24, 2026, was one of those days. It took 50 years to make, costs $36,000 a bottle, and only 149 will ever be produced. That

A Trade War Poured Neat: How the U.S.-Canada Alcohol Standoff Is Reshaping the Spirits Industry The trade relationship between the United States and Canada has weathered plenty of storms over the decades, but few fights have landed as personally — or as commercially — as the one now playing out acro

Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, has brought back its Halloween event, Night at the Distillery, for a second year. The distillery announced the return on October 8, 2026. This year’s version has more dates, new stories and new places to visit on the property. Guests walk the histori

The Whisky Loch Returns: How Scotland's Scotch Industry Drowned in Its Own Success The copper pot stills at Holyrood Distillery in Edinburgh are cold. In a building that should smell of fermenting wort and warm spirit, there is only silence. Holyrood Distillery, in the shadow of Arthur's Seat, is

One Whisky to Rule Them All: Pōkeno Launches an Officially Licensed Lord of the Rings Single Malt Twenty-five years after Frodo Baggins first shouldered the burden of the One Ring on the silver screen, a small family distillery in the volcanic hills of New Zealand's North Island has answered the c

A Craft Producer Turns Its Eastern Washington Ties Into Help for Neighbors in Need When wildfire tore through the Spokane area in August, the damage reached well beyond the land itself. Families lost homes, and many people in the region needed help covering rent, getting around, and replacing basi

Torabhaig's Distillers' Series Is the Most Audacious Idea in Scotch Whisky Right Now On a rain-scoured peninsula at the southern tip of the Isle of Skye, where the stone walls of an 1820s farmstead have been mortared back into service and copper pot stills hum inside a room with a removable slate

On a small Hebridean island where the smell of the sea mingles with the faint ghost of peat smoke and new-make spirit, history was quietly made this week. Bruichladdich Distillery — one of Scotch whisky's most storied and unconventional operations — has appointed Lisa Matthews as its first female a

Jack Daniel's Tennessee Blackberry Lemonade Is Now a Canned Cocktail — And It Earned Its Can Jack Daniel's has never been a brand that sits still. From its century-old charcoal mellowing process to a string of RTD innovations over the past half decade, the Lynchburg, Tennessee distillery has consi

A Decade of Doing the Work: Four Roses' 10th Salt River Cleanup and the Bourbon Behind It There is a version of corporate environmental stewardship that lives entirely on press releases — full of green-sounding language, short on actual labor. Four Roses Distillery is not in that business. For the