Ending 2020 On a High Note
2020 will not be remembered well by many people, but there have been a few bright spots for whisky lovers. One is the arrival of the first official distillery bottling from Kentucky's Castle & Key Dis...
28 Dec 20201h 4min
Walking Through 200 Years of Johnnie Walker's History
We have breaking news heading into the holiday week, as it appears the U.S. Congress will make a federal excise tax break for distillers permanent. The details are still tentative, and we have the lat...
21 Dec 20201h 6min
Heaven Hill Celebrates 85 Years of Whiskey
85 years ago today, the five Shapira brothers and their partners opened Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky. The Shapira family is still in charge today, with second-generation company presi...
14 Dec 20201h 2min
Auction Houses Bid for Whisky Collectors' Business
With more people looking at rare whiskies as investments, more of the world's top auction houses are adding spirits experts to their in-house wine teams. That was just one of the moves Sotheby's made ...
7 Dec 20201h 6min
Buying Whisky by the Barrel...or the Bottle
It's never been easier to buy an entire cask of whisky...at least in theory. While more distilleries are offering the opportunity to pick a special cask of whisky, the demand for casks far outpaces th...
30 Nov 202049min
A First for Craft Distilling
Craft distillers dream of not only having their whiskies alongside those of the major global brands, but outselling them. For the Quint family of Iowa's Cedar Ridge Winery & Distillery, that dream has...
23 Nov 202057min
Ending the Whisky Trade War
There's a lot of political turmoil these days, and European Union leaders threw gasoline on the fire with this week's decision to impose new import tariffs on American-made rum, vodka, brandy, and ver...
16 Nov 202055min
Blind Faith Leads to Blind Bourbon Tastings
Marianne Eaves had a bright career path in her future as the first female master distiller at a Kentucky Bourbon distiller when she suddenly decided to leave Castle & Key Distillery 18 months ago - a ...
9 Nov 202053min
