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A diamond struck for sixty years of Jimmy Russell — a marriage of 13 and 16 year old bourbons that wears its age like bu...
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Joe Whitfield
April 10, 2026
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The entry-level Old Grand-Dad — high-rye Beam mashbill bottled at 80 proof, an honest budget bourbon with the family spi...
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April 10, 2026
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Heaven Hill's wheated bourbon, made in the soft style of Stitzel-Weller and named for John E. Fitzgerald, the man who al...
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April 10, 2026
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A single-cask expression of Heaven Hill's flagship Elijah Craig, drawn from one barrel rather than blended, with all the...
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April 10, 2026
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A limited release that takes fully matured Elijah Craig Small Batch and finishes it in a second barrel — toasted rather ...
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April 10, 2026
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A decade in oak gives Eagle Rare its quiet authority — toffee, leather and orange peel in measured Kentucky balance.
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April 10, 2026
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One barrel, one bottling — a singular snapshot of Brown-Forman's flagship bourbon, picked for character and drawn at 90 ...
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April 10, 2026
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A collaboration with the legendary Texas ranch — a richer, bolder Old Forester wearing leather chaps and dust-from-the-s...
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April 10, 2026
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The everyday workhorse of America's first bottled bourbon brand — soft caramel, gentle spice, and a lineage stretching b...
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April 10, 2026
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A surprising single barrel from Buffalo Trace's value-tier Benchmark line, named for the McAfee brothers who surveyed Ke...
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April 10, 2026
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A genuine estate bourbon from the high desert of Nevada — every grain grown on the Frey family farm.
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April 10, 2026
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Kentucky bourbon finished in Bas-Armagnac casks from one of Gascony's oldest producers — a transatlantic conversation be...
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