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Scotland Office Had No Hand in Scotch Whisky Tariff Deal — And the Documents Prove It When the United States formally lifted tariffs on Scotch whisky in late July 2026, the champagne — or rather, the dram — was already poured in Edinburgh and London. Politicians from both governments rushed to cla

Both Sides of the Border Are Bleeding: How the U.S.-Canada Alcohol Trade War Became Everybody's Problem When Canadian liquor store workers began physically pulling bottles of Kentucky bourbon, Tennessee whiskey, and American wine from government-run shelves in the spring of 2025, it made for strik

A British court has delivered one of the clearest and most damning verdicts yet against the predatory underbelly of the Scotch whisky investment market. On August 25, 2026, the High Court in London wound up Cask Spirits Global Limited, a whisky cask investment firm whose customers paid for casks th

Buzzard's Roost French Double Oak Bourbon Is Back — and It's Borrowed Straight from the Wine World's Most Celebrated Forest There are bourbon releases that show up, fill a slot on a shelf, and disappear. Then there are releases that sell out fast enough to create a waiting list the next time aroun

India's Spirits Crackdown: How Diageo Fought — and Ultimately Bent — to the FSSAI It started with a laboratory test and ended with one of the world's largest spirits companies agreeing to reformulate some of its most iconic Indian brands. The saga involving Diageo's Indian subsidiary United Spirit

Jack Daniel's Brings Its American Single Malt Home — And It's About Time For more than a century and a half, the Jack Daniel Distillery has done things one way: corn-forward mash bill, iron-free cave spring water, and the Lincoln County Process — that slow, deliberate drip through ten feet of suga

For more than 155 years, Brown-Forman Corporation has been the kind of company that does not air its dirty laundry in public. The Louisville-based maker of Jack Daniel's and Woodford Reserve has been passed, more or less intact, from one generation of Browns to the next since George Garvin Brown bo

Four Roses Experimental Series No. 002 Honey Cask Finish: The Bourbon World's Most Inventive New Release There's a moment when a distillery stops playing it safe and starts making history. For Four Roses, that moment arrived in the spring of 2026, when the Lawrenceburg, Kentucky institution releas

An Official Category, an Uncertain Road: Where American Single Malt Stands Now When the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau published its final rule on December 18, 2024, American single malt whiskey became something it had never legally been before: a recognized, defined, protected category

From a Bennington Garage to a Revolutionary Whiskey: Village Garage Distillery's Vermont Republic Rye There is a particular kind of ambition that grows quietly in small towns — the kind that takes years to mature, requires patience most people aren't willing to commit, and ends up saying something