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Scotland's Newest Lowland Single Malt Has Finally Arrived — and It Was Worth the Wait There is a particular kind of anticipation that surrounds a distillery's very first single malt. Unlike a new expression from an established house, the inaugural bottling from a young producer carries the entire

A Chinese Distillery Just Won Gold at the World Whisky Masters — And the Industry Should Be Paying Attention When Diageo quietly unveiled its first Chinese whisky distillery in the remote highlands of Yunnan Province in late 2024, the global spirits world took notice — cautiously. The questions we

Jack Daniel's Special Release Small Batch Rye: The Hazmat Whiskey That Almost Wasn't There is a stretch of land tucked into the hills above Lynchburg, Tennessee, where whiskey does things it probably shouldn't. The temperatures swing hard with the seasons, the wood works the spirit with unusual ag

Something has been building along the northern border for a year and a half now, and it finally came to a head. The U.S. government has slapped a 50% tariff on Canadian spirits, and the man running the country's biggest liquor trade group says it's about time. Chris Swonger, who serves as Presi

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

Anyone who has spent time behind a bar, running a restaurant, or just building out a serious home liquor cabinet knows the beverage alcohol world doesn't stay still for long. The latest move comes from the Distilled Spirits Council, known as DISCUS, which has teamed up with the Wine & Spirit Ed

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

After 111 Years of Silence, H. Obernauer & Co. Is Coming Back to Pittsburgh There are whiskey brands that fade quietly — discontinued, consolidated, absorbed into some corporate portfolio, their names surviving only on antique bottle labels tucked in the back of a collector's cabinet. And then

Back-to-Back: Grasmere Distillery Earns Second Consecutive World Whisky Masters Medal for Its Single Malt New Make Spirit There is a small operation tucked inside two converted barns on the shores of Grasmere, in the heart of England's Lake District, that is quietly rewriting the story of English

Whiskey House of Kentucky Earns A2LA Accreditation, Notches Fourth ISO Certification in Two Years In an industry where tradition still largely governs quality assurance, Whiskey House of Kentucky has taken an unmistakably different path. On August 10, 2026, the Elizabethtown distillery announced i