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Louisville has always been a city comfortable living between two worlds — the meticulous, industrial-scale tradition of Kentucky's great distilling dynasties and the restless, low-ceiling creativity of its bar culture. Prova Spirits, a nano distillery tucked into the heart of America's bourbon coun

From a Wisconsin Farm to the Bottle: The Story of True Harvest Bourbon Company There is a particular kind of authenticity that no marketing budget can manufacture — the kind born from four generations of working the same soil, in the same small town, under the same open Midwestern sky. That is exa

Bulleit Drops Its Oldest Rye Ever — 20 Years Old, Cask Strength, and Only 1,776 Bottles There are milestones in American whiskey that feel genuinely earned, and then there are releases that rewrite what a brand is capable of. Bulleit's latest — a 20-year-old straight rye whiskey bottled straight f

Caskd Wants to Change How Collectors Buy and Sell Rare Whisky — Starting With a 1981 Single Malt The rare whisky market has long operated like a members-only club with no posted rules and no price list on the door. Dealers set terms, auction houses clip fat commissions, and private collectors tryi

Pittsburgh's Wigle Whiskey and the Heinz History Center Are Bringing George Washington's Favorite Spirit Back for America's 250th When George Washington crossed the Allegheny Mountains on horseback in the fall of 1784, he didn't pack light. Among his provisions was a cordial that served as both re

Cedar Ridge Drops Nine and Three Quarters Rye: Iowa's Most Ambitious Whiskey Yet There is a particular kind of confidence required to name a whiskey something as deliberately curious as Nine and Three Quarters. It is not a proof statement. It is not a barrel count or an age declaration. It is an a

Four Roses Finally Breaks Its Own Rules: The Experimental Series No. 001 Is the Distillery's First-Ever Cask-Finished Bourbon For a distillery that has spent more than two decades meticulously building one of the most technically rigorous bourbon programs in Kentucky, the announcement of a cask-fi

Booker's "Milkshake Batch" Is Here — And the Story Behind It Is Pure Kentucky There are bourbon releases, and then there are the ones that make you stop mid-pour and actually think about the man behind the whiskey. Booker's 2026-02 "Milkshake Batch" lands squarely in the second category. It's a bo

Johnnie Walker Blue Label Gets a Knicks Championship Makeover — And It's About Time New York City doesn't do restraint. When the Knicks finally broke a 53-year championship drought, the city erupted — ticker tape, light-post climbers, MSG celebrations that stretched into the early morning hours. N

Garrison Brothers Launches Ranch Reserve Series: Texas Bourbon Gets a Spanish Accent Out on the rolling, wildflower-flecked acreage of Hye, Texas, where the Hill Country sun bakes the earth nine months out of the year and the smell of sweet corn mash drifts across unpaved roads, Garrison Brothers