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Wheel Horse Whiskey has brought back its Cigar Blend Bourbon for fall 2026 . The brand calls it the "most awarded limited release of the year." It is a five-year-old bourbon at 101 proof, finished in a mix of wine and brandy barrels. The price is $43.99 a bottle, and only 6,000 bottles were made.

Lost Lantern Teams Up With a Tennessee Legend Most whiskey drinkers know George Dickel by its label. Fewer know how much else the Tennessee distillery has been making behind the scenes. That is about to change. Vermont independent bottler Lost Lantern announced on September 29, 2026, that its Fall

Most bottles of blended Scotch whisky keep their secrets. The label gives a name, maybe an age, and not much else. For most drinkers, what's actually inside the bottle stays a guess. Compass Box, the London-based whiskymaker, has spent years pushing back against that. Its newest release puts the wh

Bourbon drinkers tend to be creatures of habit. They find a bottle they like, they learn where it sits on the shelf, and they reach for it without much thought. So when a well-known brand changes the look of every bottle it sells, people notice. When it also changes what's inside a few of those bot

Some things can't be rushed, and a good whiskey is one of them. That is the thinking behind two new bottles from Root Shoot Spirits, a Loveland, Colorado distillery that has just put out its first 6-year American Single Malt whiskeys. The announcement came on September 15, 2026. Both bottles are li

Some whiskey bottles disappear from the shelf before most people know they exist. That is what happened to the Honey Bourbon and Honey Rye Cask Whiskeys from Blue Note Bourbon in Memphis, Tennessee. Both sold out fast in each of the past two years. Now the third annual release is here, and the comp

There's a certain kind of whisky release that gets people talking not because of what's in the bottle, but because of what it represents. The Macallan's newest expression, TIME : SPACE Sherry Cask, is exactly that kind of release. On paper, it's a 20-year-old single malt Scotch whisky bottled at 44

Every September, distillers and maltsters across the country mark Craft Malt Month, a shoutout to the small operations that turn raw barley into the base of everything that gets fermented and distilled into whiskey. This year, Seattle's Copperworks Distilling Co. is marking the occasion with someth

There's a moment every serious bourbon drinker chases: the first sip of something that was never watered down to fit a spec sheet. That's the pitch behind the newest release from Knob Creek, and it's arriving just in time for the season when good bottles get passed around living rooms across the co

A Spirit Category Nobody Saw Coming Whiskey drinkers have spent the last decade chasing every angle on the category — high rye mash bills, finishing in wine barrels, single barrel picks, and grain sourced from a single farm down the road. But nobody has really gone after the field pea. Branch &amp