Brown-Forman has announced it expects to raise prices on its Jack Daniel’s whiskeys in Europe by 10%, after its existing stockpiles on the continent are sold off. This is in response to the EU imposing 25% tariffs on American Whiskey, among many other products, last week. A 10% price hike would represent splitting the difference between passing the cost of ...

By Father John Rayls Rating: B+ Uncle Nearest 1856 Premium Whiskey shows where Tennessee Whiskey is headed as a category. Defined by law as, essentially, bourbon with the added step of filtration in sugar maple charcoal undertaken before maturation, the category has spread from Jack Daniel’s and George Dickel to a host of craft distilleries in the Volunteer State. As ...

Tennessee has two major distilleries and one of them, George Dickel, hasn’t had a titular Distiller since Alissa Henley left the company in July 2016. That changed last week when the Dickel distillery was renamed for its location as the Cascade Hollow Distilling Co., and Nicole Austin was designated as the renamed plant’s General Manager and Distiller. What was formerly ...

According to the AP, the Attorney General of Tennessee, Herbert Slatery, has announced his official opinion that barrels of whiskey are not exempt from the state’s personal property tax. This comes as Brown-Forman, parent company of Jack Daniel’s, and other distillers in the Volunteer State are pushing for a new law that would make barrels formally exempt from taxation. This ...

Brown-Forman has found itself lobbying the Tennessee State House again, but this time it isn’t defending it’s 2013 Whiskey Law. Instead, the company is defending itself from a measure similar in effect to Kentucky’s unpopular ad valorem tax on whiskey barrels. According to the AP, a Moore County auditor determined that barrels of whiskey maturing in the county were taxable ...