Recent Trade War Articles

Washington Fires Back: The CANADA Act and the Fight to Reclaim America's Most Important Whiskey Market For more than sixteen months, a half-empty shelf at a Toronto LCBO has functioned as the most vivid symbol of a trade war that most bourbon drinkers never saw coming. Where Jack Daniel's and Mich

The Bourbon Boom Is Over. Now What? For roughly two decades, the American bourbon industry operated with the quiet confidence of a category that could do no wrong. Distilleries expanded. Warehouses filled. Allocated bottles became cultural currency. Tourists flooded into Kentucky to take barrel to

North of Kentucky: How Canadian Craft Distillers Stepped Into America's Bourbon Shadow For the better part of a decade, Kentucky bourbon ruled the back bars of Canada from Vancouver to Halifax. Its arrival was no accident — aggressive marketing, an ever-expanding range of premium expressions, and

Bourbon's Global Crisis: How Tariffs, Trade Wars, and America's Fading Soft Power Are Hammering the Spirit Abroad For the better part of two decades, bourbon was on a relentless upward march. The spirit born in Kentucky's limestone-watered hollows became a global phenomenon — poured in Tokyo cockt