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Let’s just get this out of the way: Moutai, the Chinese baijiu brand whose market ubiquity in its homeland rivals that of rice and filial piety, is now officially the world’s most valuable spirits brand…
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Five-year aged expression channels volcanic soil, ocean air, and the island’s patient beauty There’s a particular kind of alchemy that happens only on Kaua‘i—where sugarcane meets volcanic soil, where the breeze isn’t just salt and…
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New higher-proof rye aims squarely at bartenders, balance, and the legacy of America’s first cocktail In the quiet, eternal chess match between flavor and firepower, Buffalo Trace Distillery has just made its next move. On…
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From a 77-year-old Glen Grant to Laphroaig in a platinum capsule, the whisky world’s most outrageous one-offs are back—and every dram funds the future of Scotland’s youth. On Friday, 10th October 2025, amid the hallowed…
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Crafted grain-to-glass in a former creamery near Lake Tahoe, this $45 bottle shows what estate-distilled American rye can truly become. The rye whiskey renaissance has its spice bombs, its heavy-hitters, its old-guard legends. But in…
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The team behind one of America’s most decorated craft distilleries just took a bold turn into the zero-proof frontier. Breckenridge Distillery, famed for its high-altitude whiskeys and a trophy case full of Icons of Whisky…
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From the high desert farmland of northern Nevada comes a whiskey with roots—literal roots—deeper than most. Frey Ranch Distillery, one of the only true farm-to-glass whiskey operations in the United States, has unveiled its most…
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In a quiet bottle that roars of revolution, Jefferson’s Bourbon has released the second expression in its Marian McLain series—a whiskey that wears its past with the kind of swagger only history and heartbreak can…
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Somewhere between the razor-clean purity of a dry martini and the wild brine of its dirty cousin lies one of the most hotly contested battlegrounds in cocktail culture: gin choice. The debate is old and…
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In an era of algorithmic everything, there’s something comfortingly analog—almost Edenic—about bourbon. Especially when it’s a bourbon steeped not just in oak, but in heritage. Such is the case with Lineage Batch #2, the newly…

