Recent American Whiskey Articles

The Hunt Is On: Inside the Growing Search for America's Best Hotel Whiskey Bars Something is shifting in American hospitality, and the clearest proof of it is not found in renovation budgets or room rate trends — it is found at the bar. Specifically, in the increasingly serious, deliberately curat

What Is Bourbon? America's Native Spirit Explained There's a reason bourbon holds a special place in this country that no other spirit quite matches. It's not just a drink. It's a piece of American history sitting right there in your glass, waiting to be appreciated. Whether you stumbled into the

The Uncle Nearest Lawsuit Just Got a Whole Lot More Complicated What started as a straightforward — if brutal — secured lending dispute has exploded into something far messier, and far more revealing about the inner workings of one of American whiskey's most celebrated brands. The court-appointed

The Fall of an American Whiskey Icon: How Uncle Nearest Went from Billion-Dollar Darling to Courtroom Battleground For a few shining years, Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey looked like one of the most remarkable success stories in the history of American spirits. Built on the recovered legacy of a fo

The Lay of the Land: How America's Whiskey Regions Are Rewriting the Map For most of the twentieth century, the American whiskey conversation began and ended in two places: the bluegrass hollows of Kentucky and the limestone ridges of middle Tennessee. If you wanted bourbon, you looked south towar

The Bourbon Bubble Has Deflated — and American Whiskey Is Looking Outward to Survive For the better part of two decades, American whiskey producers could do almost no wrong. Bourbon was the darling of the domestic spirits industry — a red, white, and blue success story built on premiumization, coc

Bulleit Drops Its Oldest Rye Ever — 20 Years Old, Cask Strength, and Only 1,776 Bottles There are milestones in American whiskey that feel genuinely earned, and then there are releases that rewrite what a brand is capable of. Bulleit's latest — a 20-year-old straight rye whiskey bottled straight f

Why Bourbon Collecting Is Having a Genuine Moment There has never been a better time — or a more complicated time — to start a bourbon collection. The American whiskey industry has undergone a seismic shift over the past two decades, moving from a category that was largely ignored by the broader s

Is Pappy Van Winkle Really Worth the Hype? There's a good chance you've never tasted Pappy Van Winkle. There's an even better chance you've heard someone talk about it like it's the liquid equivalent of the Holy Grail. That one buddy who swears he had a pour at a dive bar in Louisville back in 200

What Is Wheated Bourbon? The Complete Guide to America's Smoothest Style Pull a random bottle off the bourbon shelf and there is a better-than-even chance the liquid inside was made with rye. That spicy, assertive grain has been the backbone of American whiskey since frontier settlers in Kentucky