Recent Pappy Van Winkle Articles

One Man Walked Into the Kentucky Bourbon Festival. He Left Owning a Barrel. Bardstown, Kentucky knows how to put on a show. Every September, the self-styled Bourbon Capital of the World earns that title all over again when the Kentucky Bourbon Festival takes over the grounds of Spalding Hall and d

Pappy & Co. and Shady Rays Just Dropped the Most Coveted Non-Bourbon Collectible of Bourbon Season Every September, a peculiar kind of mania descends on the American whiskey world. Lottery tickets get submitted, retailer relationships get tested, and social media fills with people either celeb

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

The Sealed Bottle Paradox: Why the Most Serious Bourbon Collectors Never Pull the Cork There is a particular kind of collector who keeps a bottle of 23-year Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve on a shelf in a climate-controlled room, dusts the glass every so often, and has never once considered crac

The Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye 13 Year Just Hit $1,149.99 — Here's What That Number Actually Means When a bottle of whiskey drops in price by $450, that ordinarily qualifies as good news. But the Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye 13 Year operates on a different register entirely — one where "good n