Recent News

The Bourbon Bubble Has Burst — and Newport's New Riff Is Ready for It The good times in bourbon were never going to last forever. For roughly two decades, American whiskey producers rode one of the most extraordinary consumer booms the spirits industry had ever seen — a gold rush that filled rickh

The World's Most Remote Whisky Warehouse: Scientists Begin Formal Analysis of Antarctica-Matured Isla Marambio Whisky has been aged in cold stone warehouses in the Scottish Highlands, sun-baked rickhouses in Kentucky, and high-altitude distilleries in the Himalayas. But nothing in the 500-year his

The Great Scotch Reckoning: How an Industry Built on Scarcity and Prestige Is Learning to Price Itself Back Into Reality There is a particular kind of hubris that thrives in industries where the product takes decades to mature. Scotch whisky, more than almost any other category, has operated for t

Scotch Whisky Makes History in Argentina With Landmark Geographical Indication — And Now It's Turning One For decades, anyone wandering the aisles of a Buenos Aires liquor store could find bottles that traded freely on the cachet of Scotland without bearing much legal obligation to actually be fro

From the Parking Lot to the Bottle: How Blue Lot® Bourbon Became West Virginia's Own There is a particular kind of authenticity that cannot be manufactured by a marketing team or conjured in a boardroom — the kind that comes from years of shared experience, from Saturday afternoons spent in the co

Bardstown Bourbon Company Takes Tropical Seriously: The Story Behind the Victoria Pineapple Barrel Finish There is a particular challenge embedded in the very chemistry of American whiskey that most distillers have simply learned to live with: the near-impossibility of coaxing genuine tropical fru

Luca Mariano Distillery Sold for $19.5 Million: Inside the Kentucky Bourbon Industry's Sharpest Fall from Grace A Kentucky bourbon distillery that spent years building toward a grand opening — only to collapse under the weight of tens of millions in debt just weeks after cutting the ribbon — has f

The Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame's 2026 Class Is Its Most Diverse Yet — and One Name Will Surprise You Every September, the bourbon industry gathers its legends, its lifers, and its rising voices to honor the people who have bent the arc of American whiskey history. This year, the Kentucky Distil

Isle of Harris Distillery Drops Its Signature Single Malt — A Decade in the Making There is a particular weight to the phrase "ten years in the making" when it comes from the remote edge of the Outer Hebrides, where time moves differently and the Atlantic winds shape everything from the barley in

Crown Royal's Amherstburg Plant Finally Finds a Buyer — But the Full Story Is Messier Than the Press Release After months of political theater, union grief, border-town anxiety, and a whisky bottle theatrically poured out on live television, the Crown Royal bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ontari