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KNOBEL's 7-Year Single Barrel Honors Skilled Trades Legacy
KNOBEL Drops a Seven-Year Single Barrel to Mark Eighteen Years of Skilled Trades Advocacy On October 8, 2026, KNOBEL Spirits LLC did something that the American whiskey market does not see every day: it released a limited-run, barrel-strength Tennessee whiskey not primarily to chase collectors or
Russell's Reserve 2026 Single Rickhouse Camp Nelson D is Here
Russell's Reserve Single Rickhouse 2026 — Camp Nelson D Arrives With Its Most Surprising Flavor Profile Yet There's a question that doesn't come up often in serious bourbon circles: can a straight Kentucky bourbon, made from a traditional mash bill, aged in new charred oak, taste so convincingly o
Tennessee Bourbon Gets a Monopoly Collector's Edition
When Tennessee Bourbon Meets the World's Most Famous Board Game There are bourbon collaborations, and then there are the ones that make you stop and think about what a brand is actually trying to say about itself. The new MONOPOLY: Bib & Tucker Collector's Edition, which landed on October 14,
Briggs Distilling Opens on Family Land in Texas Hill Country
Briggs Distilling Co. Opens in Driftwood, Texas — A Family Operation Bets Big on Hill Country Whiskey There is a particular kind of ambition involved in opening a distillery on land your family has occupied for generations. It is not the calculated ambition of venture-backed beverage brands chasin
England's GI Battle Is Splitting the British Spirits Industry
England's Whisky War: Inside the GI Battle Splitting the British Spirits Industry For most of American whiskey history, the rules governing what goes in the bottle have been fiercely debated — from the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897 to the ongoing push to define American single malt. England is now l
Westland's Garryana Edition 11 Rewrites American Single Malt
The Oak That Started It All: How Westland's Garryana Series Rewrote the Rules of American Whiskey There is a species of oak growing along the fog-swept lowlands of the Pacific Coast — one that predates the American whiskey industry by millennia — that is now at the center of one of the most compel
Rémy Martin Names Its Top Young Bartenders in Cognac
Ken Chan Wins the 11th Bartender Talent Academy Final Ken Chan of Quinary, a bar in Hong Kong, was named the global winner of the 11th Bartender Talent Academy, an international contest for rising bartenders run by the House of Rémy Martin. The final took place on Wednesday, October 21, at the his
World's First Chestnut Cask Whiskey by Midleton Very Rare
The World's First Chestnut Cask Whiskey: Inside Midleton Very Rare's Irish Chestnut Edition For as long as whiskey has been made, wood has been its silent architect. Oak — American white oak, European sessile oak, Quercus alba, Quercus petraea — has ruled the barrel house without serious challenge
Inside Monogram: Kansas City’s Never-Ending Barrel
A Rare Whiskey Built on Patience Every so often, a bottle comes along that says as much about history as it does about flavor. J. Rieger & Co., the Kansas City distillery, has announced the 2026 release of Monogram Whiskey - Kansas City Whiskey Solera Reserve. The distillery calls it its mos
Old Fitzgerald and Jonathan Adler's $425 Backgammon Collab
Old Fitzgerald and Jonathan Adler Team Up on a $425 Limited-Edition Backgammon Set When a bourbon brand rooted in nineteenth-century Kentucky hospitality sits down with one of America's most recognizable modern designers, the result does not have to be another whiskey. This time, it is a backgammo
