Uncle Nearest swept the 2025 BTI Tennessee Whiskey Judging, claiming four of five gold medals and cementing its dominance in the category. The lone upset came from Costco’s Kirkland Signature Sour ...

Jack Daniels took top honors at the prestigious 2025 World Whisky Awards America, a highly respected competition in the whiskey industry. Jack Daniels Triple Mash was chosen as The Best American Style ...

Dylan Ettinger is a Los Angeles-based writer specializing in spirits, cocktails, and coffee with hands-on experience visiting distilleries and bars across the US, Europe, Mexico, and the Caribbean. No ...

What is Tennessee whiskey? And is it different from bourbon? Tennessee whiskey is a subcategory of whiskey that shares many qualities with bourbon but has one key distinction: the Lincoln County ...

There’s a controversy brewing in the whiskey world that needs to be addressed. Perhaps “controversy” is too strong a word, maybe it’s more of a disagreement. Or even more precisely, a technical ...

Tennessee whiskey is undoubtedly the best-known spirit made within the state's borders. But many of the dozens of distilleries opened in Tennessee since lawmakers began reforming Prohibition-era ...

Tennessee distilleries are releasing plenty of delicious elixirs that are not "Tennessee whiskey." Legally, a "Tennessee whiskey" is a bourbon, manufactured in Tennessee, filtered through charcoal ...