By Elizabeth Emmons, Kurt Maitland and Richard Thomas The first day of February saw Michter’s open their second distillery in Louisville, this one a tourist destination and working micro-distillery located on the west end of the city’s famed Whiskey Row. The company has entered well-trod territory, with Evan Williams, Jim Beam and Old Forester preceding them in that particular niche, ...

Constellation Brands, Inc, a sizable drinks company, announced today it acquired a minority stake in Rochester, New York’s Black Button Distilling. The investment was made through Constellation’s venture capital group that identifies and invests in premium, emerging brands in categories that provide strong scalability, consumer appeal, and a unique niche or point of differentiation in the market. Black Button will ...

When Angel’s Envy got started as one of the earliest (and certainly the highest profile) examples of an independent bottler making finished whiskeys, founder Lincoln Henderson went with Port pipes for that round of secondary maturation. However, Sherry butts are in much more common usage for this role, and for several years observers have wondered if the company would ever ...

Buffalo Trace Distillery is releasing its latest round in its experimental whiskey collection, two bourbons aged for more than nine years in barrels made from oak staves seasoned for three and four years. The bourbons, filled with Buffalo Trace’s mash recipe #1, were put away to age on October 27, 2009 in new barrels with staves that were seasoned for ...

Heaven Hill Distillery has announced Conor O’Driscoll as the fifth Master Distiller in its 84-year history. In 2004, O’Driscoll started his journey in whiskey as Operations Manager for the Brown-Forman Distillery in Shively. After five years, O’Driscoll moved to oversee operations at the Woodford Reserve Distillery. Shortly thereafter, he added warehousing and processing responsibilities beginning a robust warehouse expansion program. In ...