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 ...

To mark the tenth anniversary of the Highland distillery’s Private Edition series, Glenmorangie introduces the tenth release in the award-winning collection, Glenmorangie Allta, the first single malt whisky created from yeast growing wild on the distillery’s own barley. Glenmorangie Allta (Scots Gaelic for ‘wild’ and pronounced ‘al-ta’) reveals the often-overlooked importance of yeast and its impact on flavor in the ...

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 ...