Recent Whiskey Collecting Articles

The Anatomy of a Six-Figure Bottle: What Actually Drives Whiskey Auction Value On a Saturday night in January 2026, a bidding war erupted inside Sotheby's New York that would reset the ceiling for American whiskey. A 1982 bottle of Old Rip Van Winkle, aged 20 years in a single barrel, sold for $16

The Man Who Helped Build the Hype Machine — and Now Wants to Tear It Down Jake Norris has spent the better part of two decades working inside one of the most intoxicating paradoxes in American whiskey culture: the harder it is to get a bottle, the more people want it — and the less likely they are