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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

Cleveland Whiskey Takes a Majority Stake in Sandusky's Everwild Seekers Bourbon Ohio's craft spirits scene just got a whole lot more interesting. Cleveland Whiskey, the technology-driven distillery that has spent nearly two decades turning the conventional wisdom about how American whiskey gets ma

From Champagne Country to the Whisky World: The Moutard Family's Boldest Release Yet There are a handful of distilleries in the world capable of drawing a straight, unbroken line between the soil under their feet and the spirit in their bottle. The Moutard family of Buxeuil, France, is one of them

Some distilleries take their time. Jackson Purchase Distillery is not one of them. Barely a year removed from putting its very first bottle on store shelves, the Hickman, Kentucky outfit is already back with two more bourbons, and each one tells a different story about what this young company is tr

Town Branch Distillery Drops Bourbonola Tropical Style: A Bourbon-Banana Seltzer Rooted in American History Town Branch Distillery has never been a brand content to sit still. Since reopening the century-old Lexington Brewing operation and becoming the first new distillery built in Lexington in ov

Blue Run Spirits Honors America's 250th Birthday With a Bourbon Built for the Moment There are moments in a nation's life so singular that every industry feels compelled to mark them. America's 250th anniversary — the Semiquincentennial — is one of them. From automakers to apparel brands, the patr