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A Third Strike Against Bardstown Bourbon Company: New Lawsuit Deepens Discrimination and Fraud Claims What began as a single whistleblower lawsuit filed in the dead of a Kentucky winter has ballooned into a full-blown legal crisis for one of the bourbon industry's most closely watched distilleries

Pizza, Chili, and Scotch: How Woven Whisky and Civerinos Flipped the Script on Collaboration In a city whose port district once served as the beating heart of the global Scotch blending trade, a new kind of whisky story is unfolding — one that starts not in a dunnage warehouse or a cooperage, but

Taiwan's Finest Just Did It Again: Kavalan Solist Oloroso Sherry Wins TWSC 2026 Best of the Best There is a particular kind of quiet confidence that comes with a fourth consecutive championship in any discipline. Athletes know it. Championship franchises know it. And as of August 4, 2026, Kavalan

There's a whisky coming out of a small village in northern India that keeps doing something nobody expected a few years back. It's not just winning awards. It's sweeping them. And this summer, it happened again in a big way. Indri Single Malt, made by Piccadily Agro Industries, took first, se

India's Regulatory Hammer Falls on Diageo: 18,000 Boxes Seized in the World's Hottest Whisky Market The world's largest spirits company woke up to fresh trouble on August 10, 2026, when Indian food safety inspectors seized approximately 18,000 boxes of Diageo liquor bottles from a production facil

Diageo's Indian Empire Under Fire: What the Royal Challenge Maturation Scandal Means for the Global Whisky Industry India's food safety regulator has trained its sights on one of the world's biggest spirits conglomerates over a labeling claim that sits at the very heart of whisky authenticity: wha

Next Century Spirits Acquires Chicken Cock Whiskey and the Entire Grain & Barrel Brand Portfolio A North Carolina-based spirits company that has spent the better part of a decade quietly assembling one of the more aggressive brand portfolios in the American spirits industry just made its most

The Hat That Built the West Is Now in a Glass: Stetson Bourbon Has Arrived There are very few brand names in American history that carry the weight of an entire cultural epoch. Coca-Cola. Levi's. Winchester. And Stetson. Since 1865, that name has sat atop the heads of cowboys, lawmen, presidents,

There's a new bottle coming out of a small town in Texas, and it's about to test just how much the wood really matters when it comes to bourbon. Koopers Whiskey , the family-owned outfit based in Ledbetter, is putting out a limited release called Texas Oak Bourbon , and it's doing something most

Two well-known names in the Seattle drinks scene have teamed up again, and this time the result is a whiskey that spent time soaking up flavor from a barleywine beer. Copperworks Distilling Co. is getting ready to release its newest Whiskey Club offering, and it's one built with help from Urban F