Recent Limited Release Bourbon Articles

Penelope Bourbon's Cigar Sessions: Chapter 2 Is Built Different — and the Alec Bradley Partnership Proves It When Penelope Bourbon launched its Cigar Sessions series in June 2025, the concept was clear enough: craft a whiskey from the ground up with the express purpose of pairing alongside a cigar

Widow Jane Black Opal Returns: Brooklyn's Most Ambitious Bourbon Gets Even More Daring in 2026 There are limited releases, and then there is Black Opal. When Widow Jane first unveiled its flagship ultra-aged bourbon in the fall of 2024, it rewrote the ceiling on what a Brooklyn distillery could pu

Old Forester's 2026 Birthday Bourbon Arrives With a Twist — And a Jacket to Match Every September 2nd, something happens in American bourbon culture that is equal parts ritual and religion. The date belongs to Old Forester. It always has. Birthday Bourbon is released annually in recognition of the

Starlight Distillery's 10-Year Mizunara Reserve: The Rarest Bottle to Come Out of Southern Indiana When a craft distillery pulls a decade-aged bourbon from a single cask of centuries-old Japanese oak, limits the release to 250 bottles, and puts it through a lottery, it tends to get people's attent

Cedar Ridge's 2026 Anniversary Edition Bourbon: Iowa's Most Ambitious Limited Release Yet There's a particular kind of confidence that comes with turning 21. For Cedar Ridge Distillery, Iowa's oldest operating distillery, that milestone isn't just symbolic — it's been distilled into a bottle. The

New Riff's 2026 Headliner: The Most Ambitious Pour Yet From Newport's Most Inventive Distillery Every now and then, a Kentucky craft distillery does something that makes the entire industry stop and pay attention. New Riff Distilling, tucked into Newport on the southern bank of the Ohio River, has

Jefferson's Bourbon Drops Founder's Reserve 20-Year: A 250-Bottle Salute to America's 250th Birthday Some bourbon releases arrive with a quiet dignity that only time can manufacture. Jefferson's Bourbon's new Founder's Reserve 20-Year-Old is one of those bottles — not loud, not overproduced, but u

Rocky Bleier's Purple Heart Bourbon: A Four-Time Super Bowl Champion Turns Gridiron Grit Into a Glass Rocky Bleier has never done anything small. He played college football at Notre Dame, got drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, went to war in Vietnam, took a grenade blast to his right foot and rif

Shankar Distillers Drops Varchas 250th Anniversary Edition Bourbon, Putting Michigan Craft Whiskey Front and Center for America's Semiquincentennial There are not many moments in history when a nation pauses to take stock of 250 years of itself — of everything it has built, lost, fought for, and d