High Wire's Bottled-in-Bond built from an heirloom South Carolina corn that nearly went extinct, tasted side by side with its siblings and no verdict attached this time.

For most of the 20th century, you basically couldn't buy this bourbon in the country that makes it.

He's often called the man who invented bourbon. He probably didn't. Here's what's actually true, and what's in the bottle.

Ben Holladay's stagecoach fortune funded a bourbon distillery built into a Missouri limestone cave in 1856. We taste the wheated Straight Bourbon it makes today and let the pour speak for itself.

Named after a hunting trip, built by Jimmy Russell's 70-year career, and still just the standard bottle — not a limited release.

Blade and Bow runs the last of its Stitzel-Weller stock through Port, Bordeaux, Cognac, and Moscatel casks for its new 12 Year Solera Reserve — a real test of the solera system the brand was built on.

Bill Samuels Sr. burned his family's rye recipe and started over with wheat. His wife Margie designed everything else — the wax, the bottle, the name.

When a blender with Heather Greene's résumé finishes a rye in port casks, it's worth paying attention, even if the result is more after-dinner sipper than daily drinker.

Redwood Empire's rye-forward Lost Monarch blend is a $35 crowd-pleaser I revisited on a trip to Cape Cod — worth trying at a bar or bottle share, if not necessarily buying outright.

A longtime Heaven Hill skeptic gets won over by Double Mash, a new 9-year, 100-proof Bottled-in-Bond blend of the distillery's rye-recipe and wheated bourbon mash bills — verdict: Buy.

The real story behind Jim Beam Black's 2024 relaunch, an honest tasting, and why every bourbon drinker should know this bottle even at a 'try it' verdict.

Weller Full Proof is the muscle of the Weller vertical — 114 proof, non-chill filtered, and once upon a time an actual shelf-sitter. Here's why it's still worth grabbing if you spot one.

Colonel E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof Batch 13 lands at 127.3 and does exactly what the line always does — big, uncut, and consistent. Here's why that consistency is both the appeal and the reason I'd try before I buy.

Nobody will tell you who actually makes it — and after a full glass, I'm not sure it matters. A high-rye, $30 entry-level bourbon that earns its spot on the back bar.

Not every bourbon needs to be barrel proof, limited edition, or wrapped in a story about hunting down the last bottle on the shelf. Some have earned their place simply by showing up year after year and doing exactly what they're supposed to do.

The Musician is the bottle I hand people when they tell me Texas can't make real bourbon. Grain-to-glass, slow-proofed, and drinking far older than its age — full review inside.

Maker's Mark's 2026 Wood Finishing Series release, tasted after three years of lost interest in the series. Tasting notes, the BEP comparison, and an honest verdict on whether it's worth chasing.

Walk into almost any liquor store and you'll find 1792 Small Batch sitting quietly on the shelf. It isn't allocated, it doesn't come in a fancy bottle, and it rarely dominates bourbon conversations. Yet year after year, it continues to earn a place in one of the most competitive price ranges in whiskey.

Blue Note's new Small Batch Wheated Bourbon Blend, tasted and reviewed. A Green River-sourced pour, a covid-era store pick that started it all, and an honest verdict on whether it's worth buying two.

Finished bourbons aren't exactly rare anymore. Every year it seems another distillery experiments with different oak species, wine casks, or finishing techniques in search of a new flavor profile. Sometimes the finish transforms the whiskey. Other times it feels like a gimmick.