15 Stars has announced the limited release of its 8&15 Year Old Private Stock Fine Aged Bourbon – with an updated age statement from the previous 7&15 Year expression – along with its second batch of the award-winning First West Rye Whiskey. Beginning tomorrow, March 1, both expressions will be available on the shelves of select retailers in Kentucky, Indiana, ...
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Q&A With Tri Vo, Fierce Whiskers Distillery Co-Founder
By Richard Thomas As the craft whiskey explosion brought whiskey-making to places across the American where it had never been known before, I debated in print who would become America’s third whiskey state. For the second edition of my book, American Whiskey, I finally settled on Texas, and the Lone Star State has gone on to confirm that opinion in ...
Read More »New York Distilling Revives An Heirloom Rye For Their Whiskey
When Allen Katz and Tom Potter founded The New York Distilling Company (NYDC) in 2011, they started with the idea of developing a rye whiskey that captured the flavors and history of New York, a concept that has since been embodied as the regional “Empire Rye.” For their part, NYDC has now made their decade-old vision a reality with Jaywalk ...
Read More »Lost Lantern Launches First Dedicated Regional Collection, Starting With The Mid-West
American negociant Lost Lantern has traditionally curated and released its collections around specific themes, but the Spring 2024 collection marks the independent bottler’s inaugural regional collection. With a focus on the Midwest, Lost Lantern aims to spotlight a whiskey region it believes deserves more attention. If you’re not yet talking about whiskey from the Midwest, Lost Lantern plans to change ...
Read More »Utah’s High West Launches First In-House Bonded Whiskey
Utah’s High West made a name for itself as a company that was refreshingly transparent about its sourced whiskeys at a time when many whiskey nerds had a fever-pitch obsession with the allegedly deceptive practices of Non-Distiller Producers. However, becoming a fan favorite on the basis of creative blending and transparency had the perhaps unintended effect of making those same ...
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