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America's Most Decorated New Whiskey Is Being Liquidated — And Nobody Can Stop It The story of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey was supposed to be one of American spirits' great redemption arcs — a brand built on a buried piece of history, earning more awards in less time than any other American whis

Pendleton Whisky's Heritage Collection Puts 1800s Drinking Vessels Up for Auction — and Anyone Can Bid Most whiskey brands, when they want to generate buzz, reach for the obvious lever: release a limited-edition bottle. Pendleton Whisky went an entirely different direction. The brand has unveiled

The Glenlivet 12 Year Old Provence Edition: Scotland Meets Southern France in One Exceptional Bottle For a distillery that has spent more than two centuries defining what Speyside Scotch tastes like, The Glenlivet has never exactly been shy about pushing boundaries. Its latest move makes that trad

Where the World's Oldest Whiskey Meets Golf's Freshest Brand There's a version of golf — the one your grandfather played — where the sport's relationship with whiskey was implied, ambient, and mostly confined to the back corner of the 19th-hole bar. A tumbler of something amber, a quiet handshake,

India's Biggest Blender Bets on Premiumization With The Indian Edit Allied Blenders and Distillers has never been a company that needed to apologize for volume. The maker of Officer's Choice — a brand that once outsold Smirnoff to become the single largest-selling spirit on earth — has spent decad

Twenty-Nine Industry Professionals Finish an Eight-Month Leadership Push Twenty-nine people from across the American spirits business have finished one of the industry's most closely watched development programs. The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, known as DISCUS, announced the gr

Garrison Brothers Goes Transatlantic: The Ranch Reserve Series and the Texas Bourbon That Spent Half Its Life in Spain There is a particular kind of ambition that runs through everything Garrison Brothers Distillery does. It is not subtle. From the Texas Hill Country heat that accelerates barrel m

Japanese Whisky Explodes in Duty Free While Cognac Posts One of Its Worst Years in Decades The airport duty free shop has long been a battlefield for the world's premium spirits brands — a place where travelers loosen their wallets, check their watches at the gate, and grab a bottle of something t

When Diageo brass talk about "protecting the long-term competitiveness" of their business, it has a way of landing differently on the shop floor. At Cameronbridge — Europe's largest grain distillery, tucked away in the Lowlands of Fife, Scotland — those words have ignited a labor dispute that now t

Every autumn, as the days get shorter and the first cold fronts push down from the north, certain whisky releases begin to feel less like marketing exercises and more like necessity. Douglas Laing & Co. understands this implicitly. The Glasgow-based independent bottler has launched winter limit