Tom Wilmes

Distillers explore multiple avenues in broadening bourbon’s boundaries

Fans can’t attend this year’s Run for the Roses, but that doesn’t mean you can’t watch the race from home in style

America’s native spirit flows along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, where back roads lead to new discoveries.

The co-founder of Uncle Nearest, the most-awarded new whiskey brand in the country, keeps an undersung distiller’s legacy alive

A century since Prohibition, Hartfield & Co. remains the first and only distillery operating in bourbon’s namesake county

Meet Victoria Eady Butler, great-great-granddaughter of the pioneering distiller Nathan “Nearest” Green, who is carrying on her family’s legacy as the newly named master blender for Tennessee’s Uncle Nearest whiskey

Learn more about the art and alchemy of blending an award-winning bourbon with Four Roses’ Master Distiller Brent Elliott

To some, giving bourbons a second soak in oak is blasphemy. Others just want a second sip of the tasty results. Master taster Peggy Noe Stevens weighs in on the trend that’s pushing bourbon’s boundaries, and recommends three bottles to try

Four barrels, two hurricanes, and one epic yearlong voyage: Two weeks ago, the first leg of Jefferson’s Journey ended with a tasting in Kentucky

Nick Laracuente surveys Kentucky’s lost distilleries to better tell the stories behind the bottles

Bill Thomas, owner of Washington, D.C.’s Jack Rose Dining Saloon and a World Whiskey Awards judge, on four small bourbon, rye, and whiskey distillers to try

Straight talk from a Kentucky source on global tariffs and potential impacts back home

Four bourbon aficionados weigh in on their benchmark bottles, and similar tastes to try

Historian Michael Veach clarifies several persistent stories about the South’s favorite spirit

Know your “single barrel” from your “small batch,” your “age statement” from your “angel’s share”

Assistant master distiller Elizabeth McCall expounds on barrel-finished bourbon, the makings of a great mint julep, and why cola is okay as a mixer

These thirty-two entrants in our Craft Brewery Bracket are making their mark

After a slow start, the South shows up strong on the national craft-beer scene