Recent Old Rip Van Winkle Articles

Kentucky Is Auctioning 70 Bottles of Confiscated Bourbon — And the Lineup Is Serious Somewhere between a government clearinghouse and a collector's dream, Kentucky has quietly built one of the most unusual bourbon acquisition channels in the country. For the second time, the state is putting rare,

The Anatomy of a Six-Figure Bottle: What Actually Drives Whiskey Auction Value On a Saturday night in January 2026, a bidding war erupted inside Sotheby's New York that would reset the ceiling for American whiskey. A 1982 bottle of Old Rip Van Winkle, aged 20 years in a single barrel, sold for $16