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Willem by Willem: Laphroaig's 14-Year-Old Celebrity Scotch Is Genuinely Great — But That $156 Price Tag Is Hard to Swallow There are celebrity whisky collaborations, and then there are celebrity whisky collaborations. The first category is crowded with glossy bottles backed by minimal involvement

The Ghost of Cask #5627: How Karuizawa's 1960 Vintage Became the Most Mythologized Bottle in Japanese Whisky There are spirits, and then there are objects of obsession. The Karuizawa 1960 — a 52-year-old single malt born from a cask that no longer exists, in a distillery that no longer stands, mad

Brown-Forman Pulls a Century-Old Bourbon Label Off the Shelf to Honor the Man Who Defined the Modern Category There are tributes, and then there are statements. When Brown-Forman announced the return of Kentucky Boy bourbon on September 8, 2026, the Louisville spirits giant did both at once — reac

Evan Williams Bourbon Nation Goes Deeper Into College Football for 2026 With Snapback Sports, Collegiate Edition Bottles, and Molly McGrath College football and bourbon have always shared the same spiritual real estate in American culture — Saturday afternoons, fired-up stadiums, and the kind of c

Crown Royal's Narrow Escape: How North America's Best-Selling Canadian Whisky Is Sidestepping Trump's Import Ban The escalating trade war between Washington and Ottawa has finally reached the point that many in the spirits industry feared but few believed would actually arrive: a full, executive-o

The 2026 Van Winkle Collection and the Price Reckoning That Was Always Coming Every September, a particular kind of organized anxiety descends on the American bourbon community. A distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky — Buffalo Trace — sends word that a new vintage of the Van Winkle Collection is on t

Four Roses 2026 Limited Edition Small Batch: The Oldest, Most Ambitious Blend in the Series' 19-Year History Every autumn, the bourbon world tilts slightly toward Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. That's when Four Roses Distillery drops its Limited Edition Small Batch — a release that, year after year, mana

Atlanta's Shortbarrel Drops Its Most Ambitious Cigar Batch Yet — 50-Plus Casks, Five Finishing Types, and One Sherry-Led Showstopper There's a certain overlap in the Venn diagram of men who appreciate a well-constructed cigar and men who seek out serious American whiskey. Shortbarrel, the Atlanta-

A New Call Goes Out From New Orleans Every summer, thousands of bartenders, distillers, brand builders, and hospitality veterans converge on New Orleans for one of the most influential gatherings in the spirits business. Now the organization behind that event is asking the industry to help build n

There was a time when ordering a drink meant picking from a short list and living with whatever showed up in the glass. That era is fading fast. The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, known throughout the industry simply as DISCUS, has just rolled out a new national campaign built arou