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The 4th Annual American Whiskey Festival Is Headed Back to Louisville — And It's Bigger Than Ever Louisville has never needed much of an excuse to throw a whiskey party, but Watch Hill Proper has been giving the city a particularly good one every August. Watch Hill Proper will host the 4th Annual

Bacardi Goes All In: The Spirits Giant Completes Full Acquisition of Teeling Irish Whiskey For nine years, the relationship between Bacardi Limited and the Teeling Whiskey Company operated like a slow burn — a minority stake here, a majority share there, a gradual tightening of the grip until, on

Alan Jackson's Silverbelly Whiskey Is Now Offering Newlyweds a Personal Gift — Straight From Alan Himself Alan Jackson has spent more than three decades writing songs about love, marriage, and the kind of life worth celebrating. Now, through his Silverbelly Whiskey brand, he's turning that ethos i

Whiskey Thief Distilling Bets $2 Million on NuLu: A Craft Distillery Puts Down Permanent Roots in Louisville When a small craft distillery reaches into its pocket for a $2 million real estate purchase, it is not making a cautious, hedging move. It is making a declaration. Whiskey Thief Distilling

The Dalmore's Long-Awaited 17-Year-Old: A Sherry Trilogy That Changes the Game for Highland Scotch There are distilleries that release something new every few months, chasing trend cycles with limited editions and special casks and promotional bottlings that blur together after a while. And then t

Diageo Rare Series 2026: Five Bottles, Decades in the Making, and a New Standard for Collectible Scotch There are limited releases, and then there are moments in whisky history. The Diageo Rare Series 2026 belongs firmly in the second category. Introduced under the company's Rare & Exceptional

Rare Find's Summer 2026 Single Cask Scotch Collection: Four Casks, Three Regions, One Uncompromising Standard Every few months, a small independent bottler out of Edinburgh quietly drops a collection that commands the attention of serious whisky drinkers across two continents. No celebrity endorse

Kelsey Plum's Yam Jam Bourbon Is the Celebrity Release That Actually Earns Its Shelf Space The bourbon world has a cynicism problem when it comes to celebrity bottles. For every release that shows genuine engagement with the craft, there are a dozen that amount to little more than a famous face at

The Singleton Overhauls Its Look: What the New Packaging Means for the Brand, the Category, and Your Shelf It doesn't happen overnight, and it doesn't happen quietly — at least not when one of the world's most widely distributed single malt Scotch whiskies decides to change its face. In July 2026,

Inside Laizhou Distillery: How China's Boldest Whisky Operation Is Rewriting the Global Playbook There is a moment, somewhere between reading about Chinese whisky in theory and actually tasting it in practice, when the skepticism starts to erode. For decades, the whisky world organized itself arou