Recent Bourbon Industry Articles

Kaveh Zamanian Says Bourbon's Reckoning Is Just What the Industry Needs The bourbon industry has spent the better part of two decades operating as though the good times had no ceiling. Production soared, labels multiplied, rickhouses swelled, and every month seemed to bring another craft distiller

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

Jack Daniel's Maker Brown-Forman Is Flashing Warning Signs — and the Whole American Whiskey Industry Should Pay Attention For more than 150 years, Brown-Forman Corporation has been one of the most recognizable names in the American spirits business. It survived Prohibition, weathered the long bour

Luca Mariano Distillery Sold for $19.5 Million: Inside the Kentucky Bourbon Industry's Sharpest Fall from Grace A Kentucky bourbon distillery that spent years building toward a grand opening — only to collapse under the weight of tens of millions in debt just weeks after cutting the ribbon — has f