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The 9 Best Bourbons to Start Your Collection Nate Gana © Provided by Food & Wine Shutterstock / Kojin Bourbon whiskey was declared "Americas native spirit" on May 4, 1964. This meant that true bourbon could only be produced in the U.S., and while it can be made anywhere in the country, 95% of it hails from the great state of Kentucky. A lot of the best bourbons these days are predominantly exported to markets such as Japan, the U.K., and Germany, to encourage more internation...

Eagle Rare Bourbon drinkers looking to elevate their collection should look no further than Double Eagle Very Rare / © Eagle Rare The list of awards bestowed on Eagle Rare is seemingly endless, with both the Eagle Rare 10 Year and the Eagle Rare 17 Year Kentucky bourbons both receiving their fair share of accolades. Although the 10 Year Old is readily available, the 17 Year Old is released only in limited quantities each fall, with few cases shipped globally, making it trickier to get your han...

Fresh on the heels of their final bottling of 2020, Kentucky’s Barrell Craft Spirits, best known for its Barrell Bourbon releases, has also been looking ahead with the release of their New Year 2021 Bourbon. These New Year whiskeys have become one of their most anticipated releases from Barrell, with the distillers beginning the process in autumn to have a special batch made, according to the official release statement, “as a celebration of success and to use as a toast to the year to come....

Barrell Bourbon Announces Final Bottling of 2020: Batch 027 Barrell Bourbon Announces Final Bottling of 2020: Batch 027 Barrel Craft Spirits, the independent distillers based in Louisville, Kentucky, recently announced their final bottling of 2020: Barrell Bourbon Batch 027. This new release is a blend of straight bourbon whiskeys distilled and aged using American white oak barrels. According to the prepared statement announcing these new releases, the batch began with a blend of six-year-old w...

Order Reprints Print Article "I realized that this is a really valuable, powerful group of people that were putting together," says Black Bourbon Society CEO and founder Samara B. Davis. Courtesy Samara B. Davis Text size To Samara B. Davis, there’s a lot to love about bourbon: the taste, sure, but also the process of making it, the people involved, and the unique place it has in American history. But when Davis, who is Black, began attending social e...

What Whiskey Should You Pair To Music Genres? (The Fred Minnick Show) What Whiskey Should You Pair To Music Genres? (The Fred Minnick Show) It’s a Fred Minnick Show episode with just Fred doing his thing. He talks about buying bourbon gifts for family and friends based on their musical tastes. What musical genres do your loved ones prefer? Fred might just have the perfect pour to pair with their whiskey tastes. Better yet, what’s the best whiskey to pair with your favorite music? Sipping go...