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Sean Josephs Is Building Something New — And It's Not for Everyone There is a particular kind of ambition that doesn't announce itself with a press tour or a splashy national rollout. It shows up quietly, in the form of 210 bottles, a tiered membership structure, and a blending philosophy that tak

Heaven Hill Reaches a Milestone: The 20th Edition of Parker's Heritage Collection Arrives with Rye Backset Bourbon Twenty years is a long time to sustain anything in the American spirits business, where trend cycles move fast and the shelves are perpetually crowded with newcomers. Heaven Hill Dist

For a long time, vodka had a simple reputation. It was the clean, neutral spirit behind the bar, poured into a mixed drink or taken straight and ice-cold. In India, one of the biggest and fastest-changing liquor markets in the world, that reputation is shifting. Drinkers there want more than a neut

Most bottles of blended Scotch whisky keep their secrets. The label gives a name, maybe an age, and not much else. For most drinkers, what's actually inside the bottle stays a guess. Compass Box, the London-based whiskymaker, has spent years pushing back against that. Its newest release puts the wh

Bourbon drinkers tend to be creatures of habit. They find a bottle they like, they learn where it sits on the shelf, and they reach for it without much thought. So when a well-known brand changes the look of every bottle it sells, people notice. When it also changes what's inside a few of those bot

Root Shoot Spirits Drops Its Most Ambitious Whiskey Yet: A Six-Year Bottled-in-Bond Colorado Single Malt There are craft distilleries, and then there are operations like Root Shoot Spirits — the kind of place where the grain in your glass grew in a field you could drive past on a county road just

When the Barrel House Goes Broke: Uncle Nearest's Restaurant Debt and the Expanding Legal War The story of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey has always been bigger than whiskey. It was built on the recovered legacy of Nathan "Nearest" Green, acknowledged in 2016 as the first African-American master di

Chattanooga Whiskey's Bottled in Bond Fall 2022 Vintage Is a Masterclass in Mash Bill Archaeology Most distilleries treat "bottled in bond" like a finish line — get the whiskey to four years, hit 100 proof, slap a label on it, and collect the prestige that comes with a designation born from an 189

New Era Whiskey Opens a Distillery and Social Club in Downtown Lexington — And It's Already Changing the Bourbon Tourism Map On the morning of September 2, 2026, a ribbon was cut on East Short Street in Lexington, Kentucky, and with it came the formal arrival of a brand whose origin story sounds m

Heaven Hill and the Wildcats: Inside the Boldest Bourbon-Athletics Deal in College Sports For decades, the connection between bourbon and the University of Kentucky was the kind of thing that lived in tailgate coolers and postgame toasts rather than official press releases. On September 3, 2026, t