Recent American Whiskey Articles

The 2026 North American Bourbon and Whiskey Competition: Everything You Need to Know About the 12th Annual Showdown Every summer, when the heat builds over Colorado's Front Range and the bourbon industry's attention turns toward the Rocky Mountains, one competition quietly assembles the most rigor

The Fall of "The People's CEO": How Fawn Weaver Lost the Whiskey Empire She Built There is a particular cruelty to watching someone be separated from the thing they created. For Fawn Weaver, that moment arrived quietly on June 1, 2026 — not with a press release or a public statement, but with a te

Uncle Nearest's Martha's Vineyard Property Finds a New Buyer — But the Road There Was Anything But Smooth The story of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey has always carried a particular American weight — a brand built on the legacy of Nearest Green, the man history credits with teaching Jack Daniel how

The Fall of a Giant: Republic National Distributing Company Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy For more than a century, Republic National Distributing Company sat at the beating heart of the American spirits trade — the invisible infrastructure between the distillery and the back bar, between the coo

The Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame's 2026 Class Is Its Most Diverse Yet — and One Name Will Surprise You Every September, the bourbon industry gathers its legends, its lifers, and its rising voices to honor the people who have bent the arc of American whiskey history. This year, the Kentucky Distil

Washington Fires Back: The CANADA Act and the Fight to Reclaim America's Most Important Whiskey Market For more than sixteen months, a half-empty shelf at a Toronto LCBO has functioned as the most vivid symbol of a trade war that most bourbon drinkers never saw coming. Where Jack Daniel's and Mich

An Instant Statement: Silverthorn Reserve Wins Two Double Golds at the 2026 San Francisco World Spirits Competition There is a particular kind of credibility that comes from blind judging — no label, no backstory, no marketing budget whispering in the ears of the panel. Just liquid in a glass. Tha

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