Recent American Whiskey Articles

In the American whiskey world, geography is everything — until it isn't. WhistlePig, the Vermont-based rye house that has spent nearly two decades writing its own rules from a 500-acre farm in Shoreham, has now planted its flag in the very heart of bourbon country. The opening of The WhistlePig Vau

High West's Prisoner's Share 2026: The Red Wine Cask Finish That Gets It Right There is no shortage of cask-finished whiskeys crowding the shelves right now. Expressions that spend time in barrels previously used to age rum, sherry, tequila, and beer after initial maturation have become standard p

WhistlePig Takes Its Rye-for-America Case to New York — and the Nation On the evening of Wednesday, June 17, a select group of guests gathered in New York City for something that blended history lesson with dinner party: an intimate private event hosted by WhistlePig Whiskey, the Vermont-based rye

Blended Spirits Are Crashing the American Whiskey Party — and This Time, It's Not a Fluke The American whiskey world has spent the better part of a decade obsessing over single barrels, age statements, and the scarcity game. Allocated bottles disappeared from shelves in hours. Secondary market pri

The Bourbon Boom Is Over. Now What? For roughly two decades, the American bourbon industry operated with the quiet confidence of a category that could do no wrong. Distilleries expanded. Warehouses filled. Allocated bottles became cultural currency. Tourists flooded into Kentucky to take barrel to

The Biggest Whiskey Market in the World Has Been Almost Off-Limits to American Bourbon. That Could Finally Change. In Washington, the conversations happening right now between American trade officials and their Indian counterparts may carry more weight for the bourbon industry than anything that h

Tennessee Whiskey vs. Bourbon: Does It Really Matter? A few years back, I was at a backyard cookout in Nashville — the kind where there's a folding table with a half-dozen bottles lined up and somebody's already arguing about football before the burgers are even off the grill. I reached for what I

Penelope Bourbon's Classic Series Is the Brand's Most Deliberate Move Yet There are brands that grow by accident and brands that grow by design. Penelope Bourbon has always been the latter. From the moment founders Michael Paladini and Danny Polise cold-called liquor retailers from a New Jersey pa

Old Forester President's Choice Goes National: America's Most Storied Distillery Just Changed the Rules For the better part of seven years, the only way to get your hands on a bottle of Old Forester President's Choice was to make a pilgrimage. You had to show up, in person, at the distillery on Lo

Brown-Forman Closes Fiscal 2026 with Flat Sales, Sets a Cautious Course as American Whiskey Demand Stays Soft The numbers Brown-Forman delivered on June 4, 2026 were neither a disaster nor a triumph — they were something arguably more telling about the state of American whiskey right now: flat. Fo