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.

A busy week for bourbon watchers — Sazerac closed a $20 million deal to acquire the former Garrard County Distilling property in Kentucky, Buffalo Trace dug into Prohibition-era history, and the industry handed out its mid-year awards. Here's everything worth knowing.