Updated August 26, 2020 By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Castle & Key Distillery is known for being the revival of the neo-Gothic castle that was the Old Taylor plant, as well as being the former home of Master Distiller Marianne Eaves, Kentucky’s first woman to hold that title and something of a prodigy. However, before the distillery actually went into ...

This month, Louisville based Michter’s Distillery will begin shipping the 2020 release of its 10 Year Single Barrel Rye. “This will be the only release of our 10 Year Rye this year because we continue to be in a position where we need to allocate our whiskeys,” commented Michter’s President Joseph J. Magliocco. “I am very grateful to our team for the terrific ...

Spirits trends come and go, but truly good whiskey will always have a place on back bars and retail shelves. Today, another great American whiskey enters the Wild Turkey pantheon, as the legendary distillery introduces Rare Breed Rye as a permanent expression within its award-winning portfolio. This unique spirit embodies the same heritage, devotion to craft, and patience of process ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Corsair Distillery has changed quite a bit since its founding, with the most striking and important part of that evolution being how the distillery first opened its doors in 2008 in Bowling Green, Kentucky; gradually shifted its focus south to Nashville; and finally abandoned its foothold in Kentucky in 2018, becoming an entirely Tennessee operation. ...

The Bourbon Shortage Was Never Real, And Here Is Why By Richard Thomas Just a few years ago, the word in bourbon circles was you’d better horde the good stuff now, because we were in the midst of a bourbon shortage. A scenario where increased demand would drain even the gigantic lake of bourbon sitting in Kentucky rickhouses was postulated ...