Recent Chip Tate Articles

When Chip Tate started talking about tequila and mezcal this year, it was easy to assume the man often credited with putting Texas whisky on the map had shifted his attention south of the border for good. The evening he spent back in Waco suggested otherwise. At Red Herring in downtown Waco, Foley

Chip Tate Is Done Playing It Safe: The Balcones Founder Is Bringing Single-Malt Science to Tequila and Mezcal There is a particular kind of restlessness that afflicts the best distillers — a refusal to let mastery of one category become a ceiling. Chip Tate has always lived inside that restlessnes