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William Grant & Sons Takes the Grouse: Inside One of Scotch's Most Consequential Ownership Deals in Years When two privately held Scottish whisky dynasties shake hands over a brand that has defined blended Scotch for more than a century, the industry takes notice. On July 1, 2025, William Gran

For anyone who's ever wanted to sit down with a real bourbon expert and go through a proper tasting without hopping a flight to Kentucky, there's good news. Buffalo Trace Distillery just announced it's bringing back its traveling tasting event, called Buffalo Trace Distillery On Tour, for a second

Kentucky bourbon has always been about patience. You wait years for a barrel to turn into something worth drinking, and you wait even longer for a company to prove it's in it for the long haul. Sazerac just gave the state another reason to believe it's not going anywhere. The company announced this

Unreined Whiskey Opens Its WildHorse Ranch Visitor Center — And Texas Bourbon Tourism Will Never Be the Same For decades, the pilgrimage to great American whiskey meant one thing: a road trip through central Kentucky, dodging slow-moving tractors on the way to Bardstown, Buffalo Trace, or one of t

Still Austin Whiskey Co. Is Building Something Austin Has Never Seen Before There is a woman on the front of every bottle of Still Austin's flagship bourbon. She has been there since 2020 — rendered in the detailed, almost mythological style of native Texan artist Marc Burckhardt, she stares back

Still Austin Whiskey Co. Is Building Something Bigger Than a Bar For more than a decade, Still Austin Whiskey Co. has been one of the most compelling stories in American craft spirits — a grain-to-glass distillery planted firmly in the heart of Texas, making bourbon and rye with the same swagger a

Jim Beam is opening up its home turf to podcasters, musicians, filmmakers and other creators, and the invitation comes from a place most people never get to see up close. James B. Beam Distilling Co., the company behind Jim Beam, Knob Creek and Basil Hayden, just announced a new program called Cre

Stranahan's Colorado 150: The Pioneers List Honors the Trailblazers Who Shaped the Centennial State There is something fitting about a whiskey distillery — one that spent years being dismissed as an outlier in a bourbon-dominated industry — turning around and honoring the outliers who built Colora

Bunnahabhain Brings An Cuan Garbh No. 1 to American Shores as the Westering Home Journey Deepens There is a line of thinking in the whisky world that the best limited releases don't just taste good — they mean something. Bunnahabhain, the unpeated outlier on Scotland's smokiest island, has built i

Scotland's Most Ambitious Mashup: Kingsbarns Distillery Opens a Putting Green and Sets Its Sights on Golf's Global Faithful There is a moment every golfer knows — the round is done, the bag is off your shoulder, and the only thing standing between you and a proper dram is the walk from the 18th gr