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The Dalmore Distillery Select 2026: Sicily Meets the Scottish Highlands in One of the Year's Most Compelling Limited Releases There are distilleries that churn out limited releases the way a factory churns out widgets — annual drops timed to marketing calendars, dressed up in gilded language and s

Two Trees Beverage Wins Gold and Platinum at the 2026 SIP Awards — And the Story Behind the Bourbons Is Just as Interesting as the Medals On August 25, 2026, a small but increasingly hard-to-ignore bourbon operation out of Fletcher, North Carolina, collected two of the more prestigious hardware pi

Cedar Ridge's 2026 Anniversary Edition Bourbon: Iowa's Most Ambitious Limited Release Yet There's a particular kind of confidence that comes with turning 21. For Cedar Ridge Distillery, Iowa's oldest operating distillery, that milestone isn't just symbolic — it's been distilled into a bottle. The

Fireball Torch'd Vanilla Is Here, and It Might Be the Brand's Best Move Yet Fireball has never been shy about who it is. The brand built its entire platform off a whisky made for shots and for having a good time, achieving viral status at Pitbull concerts and leaning hard into its well-known tagli

The 'Mother of Bourbon' and the Battle Over a Name: Mary Dowling Whiskey Co. Drops Its Trademark Suit A legal skirmish over one of the most storied names in American whiskey history has come to a quiet close. Mary Dowling Whiskey Company — the brand built around the legacy of Mary Dowling, the pre

Michter's Claims the World's Most Admired Whiskey Title for the Fourth Year Running There are rankings, and then there are statements. When a Louisville distillery beats out every Scotch, Japanese, Irish, and American competitor on the planet's most scrutinized whiskey list — not once, not twice,

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

New Riff's Sherry Finish Malted Rye Is Back — and It's Better Than Ever Northern Kentucky's New Riff Distilling has never been a distillery content to stand still. Since its founding in 2014, the Newport-based operation has stacked accolades, pushed category boundaries, and built a reputation as o

Sazerac Makes Its Most Aggressive India Push Yet with Two New American Whiskey Brands When the Buffalo Trace parent company talks about India, it doesn't use hedging language. Sazerac has been consistent in calling the subcontinent a priority market, and now the New Orleans-based spirits giant is

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