Recent Buffalo Trace Articles

Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, has brought back its Halloween event, Night at the Distillery, for a second year. The distillery announced the return on October 8, 2026. This year’s version has more dates, new stories and new places to visit on the property. Guests walk the histori

The 2026 Van Winkle Collection and the Price Reckoning That Was Always Coming Every September, a particular kind of organized anxiety descends on the American bourbon community. A distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky — Buffalo Trace — sends word that a new vintage of the Van Winkle Collection is on t

For forty years, bourbon drinkers have known the name Elmer T. Lee as a kind of shorthand for doing things the right way. Now, for the first time, Buffalo Trace Distillery is letting people taste that philosophy exactly as it comes out of the barrel, with nothing added and nothing taken away.

Sazerac's £500 Million Bet on Au Vodka Is About Far More Than a Gold Bottle When a Kentucky spirits company with four generations of family ownership and a portfolio anchored by some of the most coveted bourbon barrels on earth decides to spend half a billion pounds on a Welsh vodka brand that lau

For anyone who's ever wanted to sit down with a real bourbon expert and go through a proper tasting without hopping a flight to Kentucky, there's good news. Buffalo Trace Distillery just announced it's bringing back its traveling tasting event, called Buffalo Trace Distillery On Tour, for a second

Who Really Makes Trader Joe's Bourbon? If you've ever found yourself standing in the liquor aisle of your local Trader Joe's, squinting at a plain-looking bottle labeled "Kentucky Bourbon" and thinking, "wait — who actually made this thing?" — you are not alone. This question has been bouncing aro

Blanton's at Costco: How America's Most Coveted Bourbon Keeps Turning Up in the Last Place You'd Expect Walk into most liquor stores across the country and ask for Blanton's Single Barrel Bourbon, and you're likely to get one of two answers: a flat "we don't have it," or a price tag so inflated it

Sazerac Snaps Up Garrard County Distilling for $20 Million, Turning a Bourbon Failure Into a Production Opportunity The bourbon industry's ongoing reckoning with overcapacity and financial overreach has claimed another casualty — and handed one of the sector's most powerful operators a considerabl

The World's First Single Barrel Bourbon: How Blanton's Rewrote the Rules of American Whiskey Every serious bourbon conversation eventually comes back to Blanton's. Whether someone's celebrating a find at retail price, grumbling about secondary market gouging, or proudly arranging eight horse-and-j