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SMWS Owner Artisanal Spirits Catches a Break: Trade Deals, Tariff Relief, and a Hard-Fought First Half For anyone who has tracked the fortunes of the Scotch whisky industry over the past two turbulent years, the latest trading update from Artisanal Spirits Company — the Edinburgh-based owner of th

Uncle Nearest's Martha's Vineyard Property Finds a New Buyer — But the Road There Was Anything But Smooth The story of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey has always carried a particular American weight — a brand built on the legacy of Nearest Green, the man history credits with teaching Jack Daniel how

The Fall of a Giant: Republic National Distributing Company Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy For more than a century, Republic National Distributing Company sat at the beating heart of the American spirits trade — the invisible infrastructure between the distillery and the back bar, between the coo

Root Shoot Spirits Drops a Limited Peach Brandy Cask Whiskey That Colorado Won't Forget There are whiskey releases, and then there are whiskey releases that tell a story so deeply rooted in a single place that the liquid inside the bottle almost doesn't need a tasting note — the origin does the ta

Stranahan's Colorado 150: The Pioneers List Honors the Trailblazers Who Shaped the Centennial State There is something fitting about a whiskey distillery — one that spent years being dismissed as an outlier in a bourbon-dominated industry — turning around and honoring the outliers who built Colora

Bunnahabhain Brings An Cuan Garbh No. 1 to American Shores as the Westering Home Journey Deepens There is a line of thinking in the whisky world that the best limited releases don't just taste good — they mean something. Bunnahabhain, the unpeated outlier on Scotland's smokiest island, has built i

Inside Artisanal Spirits Company's H1 2026 Results: Brand Momentum Collides With a Sluggish Cask Market For a company that has spent the better part of a decade staking its identity on ultra-premium, limited-edition Scotch whisky, The Artisanal Spirits Company finds itself at a genuinely interesti

Howell Construction Completes Arvada Distillery for The Curated Barrel Project — and Colorado Whiskey Gets Its Next Chapter A new distillery has taken shape in Arvada, Colorado, and the man behind it has a resume that reads like a greatest-hits record for Rocky Mountain whiskey. Howell Constructio

Clonakilty Irish Whiskey Is Doubling Down on America — and the Numbers Back It Up When the broader Irish whiskey category hit a rough patch in the first half of 2026, one small, family-run distillery on the southwest coast of Ireland didn't just hold its ground — it broke into a sprint. While the

The End of an Era in Louisville: Lawson Whiting Steps Down as Brown-Forman CEO After nearly three decades inside one of America's most storied spirits companies, Lawson Whiting has decided to call it a career. Brown-Forman Corporation announced that Whiting has decided to retire from his role as P