Looking for the best bourbons to gift in 2025? These ten bottles deliver exceptional flavor, craftsmanship, and holiday-ready ...

Starlight Distillery’s Japanese Mizunara Reserve Finished Bourbon was named Best Overall Bourbon at the 2025 Top Shelf Awards Gala, surpassing entries from major producers across the country. Made ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hudson Lindenberger covers beer, wine, spirits and dining. If you follow bourbon, you already know that the San Francisco World ...

Frank August Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon earned 98 points and the Bourbon Trophy, beating out higher-priced bottles from top distilleries. David Thomas Tao is an NYC-based spirits reviewer, ...

There used to be a time when the whiskey you bought could be far from pure. Thankfully, the Bottled-In-Bond Act of 1897 helped change that. It ensured that a distillery had to follow a strict set of ...

There is always a paradox with rare bourbon that any enthusiast struggles with. Trying to get your hands on a rare bottle can be incredibly frustrating. However, if it were easy, then these bottles ...

Bourbon is no longer the value it once was. Sure, great values still exist, but a growing marketplace of whiskey nerds and a willingness to sneaker-ify the spirit has led to robust resale markets and ...

SPRING VALLEY, Minn. — In a little more than five years, The Traditionalist bourbons — distilled at Four Daughters Vineyard & Winery — have gone from a pipe dream to the best bourbon in Minnesota, and ...

The Kentucky Bourbon Festival just wrapped for 2025, and for those that don’t know, it’s basically the Super Bowl of bourbon. Each year in Bardstown, Kentucky, thousands of people descend on the ...

The winning bottle emerged from an elite field of Double Gold medalists judged by experts behind the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. David Thomas Tao is an NYC-based spirits reviewer, writer, ...