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There's something fitting about a bourbon coming out of Wyoming to mark 250 years of the country's independence. The state itself wasn't even part of the original union — it didn't join until 1890, becoming the 44th state to sign on. But if there's one place in America that still runs on the same s

Jim Gaffigan's Fathertime Bourbon Wins Best New Bourbon at the 2026 San Francisco World Spirits Competition Celebrity spirits are everywhere these days, and most of them are exactly what you'd expect: a famous face slapped on a bottle of sourced whiskey with a sky-high price tag and zero soul behi

Ireland Meets China: The Tsingtao-Great Northern Distillery Deal That Could Reshape Irish Whiskey's Future When John Teeling, the patriarch of modern Irish whiskey, sat down in Dublin to sign papers with Zhiwei Cai, Chairman of Tsingtao Royalcask Liquor, the deal on the table was unlike anything t

Irish Whiskey Meets the Blockchain: Marrowbone Lane's Tokenised Cask Play Could Rewrite How the World Invests in Spirits For generations, owning a cask of aging Irish whiskey was the kind of investment that required both deep pockets and the right connections. A collector in London or Dublin might

Maker's Mark Is Going "Perfectly Unreasonable" — and the Bourbon World Is Watching When a spirits brand drops a major global campaign in the middle of an industry-wide hangover, it either looks tone-deaf or brilliantly defiant. Maker's Mark is betting everything on the latter. In February 2025, th

Connemara Gold: Ireland's Most Storied Peated Distillery Makes Its Most Accessible Whiskey Yet For the better part of three decades, Connemara has occupied a singular position in the world of Irish whiskey — the one expression that dared to go smoky in a category defined almost entirely by clean,

Old Overholt's Fourth Extra Aged Cask Strength Is the Hottest Limited Rye of 2026 There is a particular kind of satisfaction that comes from watching a brand that spent decades in the shadows finally step into the light — not with gimmicks or celebrity partnerships, but with whiskey that can hold

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Taps Callum Turner as Global Ambassador in Year-Long Luxury Campaign Scotch whisky doesn't need a celebrity to validate itself. The spirit's reputation was earned across more than two centuries of blending, tasting, and refinement long before the modern marketing machine

Old Grand-Dad Is Back: The Second Batch of Its 7-Year Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon Has Arrived If you've been following what James B. Beam Distilling Co. has been quietly doing with its portfolio of historic, once-overlooked labels, the arrival of the second annual batch of Old Grand-Dad 7-Year Bottled

The Barrel That Built a Legend Is Going Dark: Alabama Cooperage to Shut Its Doors A cooperage in a small north Alabama town has been quietly doing some of the most important work in American whiskey for more than a decade — bending, charring, and sealing the white oak containers that give Jack Dan