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Edrington Posts "Resilient" Fiscal 2026 Results as The Macallan Gains Ground and Prestige Scotch Stumbles Edrington, the whisky and spirits producer behind Speyside premium malt The Macallan, has cheered a "resilient" full-year performance in the face of a volatile market. That word — resilient —

Montana's Oldest Distillery Marks America's 250th Birthday With a Five-Year Bourbon Built for the Moment Not every anniversary bottle deserves serious attention. The spirits industry has a long history of slapping a commemorative label on an existing product and calling it a limited release. What

Indiana's Most Iconic Fox Gets His Own Whiskey — Again He has presided over decades of power dinners, championship celebrations, and quiet weeknight steaks from his perch inside one of the Midwest's most storied restaurants. He has watched governors, athletes, and business titans come and go. And

Australia's Archie Rose Wins Rye Whisky of the Year at the 2026 London Spirits Competition For most American whiskey drinkers, rye is a firmly domestic story — a grain and a tradition rooted in the fields of Pennsylvania and Maryland, distilled into the backbone of American cocktail culture, and r

Peg Leg Porker's "Spirit of America" Is the Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon That America's 250th Deserves Most commemorative spirits are afterthoughts — slap a patriotic label on an existing product, ship it to liquor stores before the holiday rush, and collect the seasonal dollars. Peg Leg Porker Spirits

Sazerac Snaps Up Garrard County Distilling for $20 Million, Turning a Bourbon Failure Into a Production Opportunity The bourbon industry's ongoing reckoning with overcapacity and financial overreach has claimed another casualty — and handed one of the sector's most powerful operators a considerabl

The Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye 13 Year Just Hit $1,149.99 — Here's What That Number Actually Means When a bottle of whiskey drops in price by $450, that ordinarily qualifies as good news. But the Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye 13 Year operates on a different register entirely — one where "good n

The Bourbon Bubble Has Deflated — and American Whiskey Is Looking Outward to Survive For the better part of two decades, American whiskey producers could do almost no wrong. Bourbon was the darling of the domestic spirits industry — a red, white, and blue success story built on premiumization, coc

Rocky Bleier's Purple Heart Bourbon: A Four-Time Super Bowl Champion Turns Gridiron Grit Into a Glass Rocky Bleier has never done anything small. He played college football at Notre Dame, got drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, went to war in Vietnam, took a grenade blast to his right foot and rif

Coors Whiskey Co. Drops a Rare 8-Year Blended American Malt — Only 1,200 Bottles Exist When most people picture Coors, they picture a cold can cracked open at a tailgate, or the silver bullet sitting in a cooler at the edge of a mountain stream. Whiskey does not typically enter the frame. But Coor