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09/19/2026

Agave potatorum, better known as Tobalá, is one of mezcal’s most coveted varietals. It’s traditionally wild-harvested and painstakingly slow to mature, often taking over a decade before it’s ready for the still.
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10 - Bozal Tobalá: Sola de Vega, Oaxaca, mezcalero Isidro Damian. Earthen pit oven, hand-crushed, clay pot distillation. 92 proof. $129 SRP.
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9 - Montelobos Tobalá Mezcal Joven: cultivated agave potatorum from Puebla, matured up to 15 years. Earth oven roast over 5 to 7 days, 10 day fermentation, double distilled in copper. 93.6 proof.
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8 - Del Maguey Tobalá Mezcal: Santa Maria Albarradas, Oaxaca, made by Rogelio Martinez Cruz and Leopoldino Miranda. Wild agave from high altitude canyons, roasted 30 days. The first wild varietal mezcal sold in the US, 1997. 90 proof.
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7 - Rey Campero Tobalá Mezcal: Candelaria Yegolé, Oaxaca, maestro Rómulo Sánchez Parada. Agave harvested at 13 years, stone ground, wild yeast fermentation in wood. 97.8 proof.
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6 - Fidencio Tobalá Mezcal: maestro Enrique Jiménez in Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca. Wild agave of 12 to 15 years, cooked over black oak and volcanic rock, tahona milled. 91 proof.
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5 - Koch el Mezcal Tobalá: maestro Pedro Hernández. Wild tobalá roasted with red oak and mesquite, crushed by horse-drawn tahona, fermented in open pine vats. 94 proof.
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4 - Doña Vega Mezcal Tobalá: fifth generation family producer founded by Sonya Auvray. Hand-harvested agave, stone-lined pit roast over 4 days, oak barrel storage. 86 proof.
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3 - Gracias a Dios Mezcal Tobalá: Valles Centrales, Oaxaca. Agave harvested around 13 years, conical earthen oven, 8 to 10 day pine vat fermentation, bottled unaged. 90 proof.
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2 - The Lost Explorer Mezcal Tobalá: agave of at least 10 years, made with maestro mezcalero Don Fortino Ramos and his daughter Xitlali. Three agave plants replanted for every harvest. 84 proof.
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1 - El Jolgorio Tobalá Mezcal: Matatlán, Oaxaca, mezcalero Gregorio Martinez Jarquin. Semi-wild tobalá harvested at 12 years, pit roasted, crushed by mule-drawn tahona, double distilled. 94 proof.
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09/17/2026

Do you know the story of the great Heaven Hill fire? On November 7, 1996, a storm with gusts near 75 mph crossed Bardstown, and around 2pm one of Heaven Hill’s aging warehouses went up. Lightning is the suspected cause. The site was too destroyed to ever confirm it.
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Warehouse I held about 20,000 barrels and was fully engulfed within 15 minutes. The wind carried the fire from rickhouse to rickhouse, and one neighboring warehouse went from 10 percent involved to 90 percent in under three minutes. Burning bourbon poured out of the buildings, ran downhill across the roads and into the creek that supplied the distillery’s water. A stretch of the creek was on fire.
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Flames reached around 350 feet and were visible from more than 20 miles away. Firefighters could only cool the surrounding warehouses and wait for the fuel to burn out. Four of them had their helmets warped by the heat. Nobody was injured.
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By the end, seven warehouses and the original 1935 distillery were gone, along with more than 90,000 barrels, which Heaven Hill puts at about two percent of the world’s wh***ey supply at the time. The loss was estimated at 30 million dollars.
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Operations resumed the next morning and nobody lost their job. Brown-Forman and Jim Beam distilled for Heaven Hill while it rebuilt, and in 1999 it bought the Bernheim distillery in Louisville, where Evan Williams, Elijah Craig and the rest of its wh***ey is still made today. Aging and bottling stayed in Bardstown.
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Photos: The Courier-Journal.
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09/14/2026

For the first time ever, Elmer T. Lee is being released uncut and unfiltered. The 40th Anniversary Edition is barrel proof (124.8 to 138.6), $99.99, and only available through Buffalo Trace’s new Bottle Draw: enter at buffalotracedistillery.com/draws between Sept 15 (10am ET) and Sept 17 (11:59pm ET). Winners pick up at the distillery Sept 28 to Oct 11. Buffalo Trace Bourbon Buffalo Trace Distillery

09/11/2026

Which Tennessee bourbon would you hand to someone who thinks bourbon only comes from Kentucky?
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More Tennessee distilleries are making bourbon on their own terms, from the mash bill to the barrel program. These 10 are a good place to start.

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09/05/2026

What’s your go-to wheated bourbon under $50?
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Wheat in place of rye means a softer, rounder pour: caramel, honey, baked bread. These 10 are highly rated and reliably under $50.
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10 - Green River Full Proof Wheated Bourbon: 70% local corn, 21% wheat, 9% malted barley, blended from 5 to 7 year old barrels. First release 109.3 proof. $49.99 SRP.
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9 - Great Jones Wheated Straight Bourbon: 100% New York-grown grain from the Black Dirt region, aged 4 years. 90 proof. $50 SRP.
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8 - St. Augustine Florida Straight Bourbon: 60% Florida corn, 18% Florida wheat, 22% malted barley, aged at least 3 years, non-chill filtered. 88 proof.
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7 - Rebel Small Batch Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon: barrels selected by Lux Row master distiller John Rempe, wheated mash bill recipe from 1849. 110 proof. $34.99 SRP.
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6 - Redwood Empire The Colonel Armstrong Wheated Bourbon: four-grain blend of Redwood Empire’s own distillate with 4 to 14 year old high-wheat bourbons, 30% wheat in the mash bill. 94 proof. Launched June 2026. $39.99 SRP.
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5 - Larceny Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon: Heaven Hill’s wheated small batch from the Old Fitzgerald line, no age statement. 92 proof.
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4 - Maker’s Mark Bourbon Cask Strength: 70% corn, 16% soft winter wheat, 14% malted barley, typically 7 to 8 years old, batches run 107 to 114 proof. Now carries an age statement. $49.99 SRP.
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3 - Penelope Wheated Bourbon: 74% corn, 16% wheat, 7% rye, 3% malted barley. 95 proof. $39.99 SRP.
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2 - Wyoming Wh***ey Small Batch Bourbon: non-GMO corn, wheat, and malted barley from Byron, Wyoming, aged a minimum of 5 years. 88 proof.
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1 - Bardstown Bourbon Co. High Wheat Bourbon: Kentucky straight bourbon, 53% corn, 39% wheat, 8% malted barley, aged 6 years. 106 proof. $49.99 SRP.
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09/02/2026

Check out the latest wh***ey releases from August 2026. Any of them catch your eye?
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13 - Michter’s US*1 Barrel Strength Toasted Barrel Finish Straight Rye Wh***ey (2026 Release): fully matured rye finished in a second barrel of 24-month air-dried, toasted wood. Averages 109.1 proof.
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12 - Redwood Empire The Hyperion (2026 Release): first of a new annual series, a blend of bourbon, rye, wheat and single malt aged 7 to 14 years. 110 proof.
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11 - Garrison Brothers Cowboy Bourbon (2026 Release): 12th annual edition, barrels aged at least 8 years, uncut and unfiltered. 141 proof.
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10 - New Riff Malted Rye Finished in Sherry Casks (2026 Release): 100% malted rye aged 6 years, finished in oloroso and Pedro Ximénez sherry casks. 117.3 proof.
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9 - Bardstown Bourbon Co. Discovery (2026 Release): three straight bourbons aged 7 to 11 years, rested 4 months in toasted Garryana oak. 112.8 proof.
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8 - Bardstown Bourbon Co. Lochs of Jura Barrel Finish: 11 and 12 year bourbon blended with 10 year rye, finished 32 months in Isle of Jura Scotch barrels. 104 proof.
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7 - Redemption 18 Year Bourbon (2026 Release): Ancients Series, 74% corn, 22% rye, 4% malted barley, non-chill filtered. 102.85 proof.
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6 - Redemption 6 Year Single Barrel Bonded Bourbon: the brand’s first bottled-in-bond, 60% corn, 36% rye, 4% malted barley. 100 proof.
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5 - Glenfiddich x Aston Martin Formula One Team 16 Year (Release No. 2): five cask types including port pipes and Fino sherry butts. 43% ABV.
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4 - Old Forester Birthday Bourbon 2026: distilled in 2015, aged 11 years in Warehouse B. 97 proof.
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3 - Macallan Harmony Collection Inspired by Fresh Coconut: sixth and final Harmony release, sherry-seasoned American oak and ex-bourbon casks. 46.3% ABV.
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2 - Maker’s Mark Cellar Aged (2026 Release): a blend of 11, 12 and 14 year bourbons aged further in a limestone cellar. 112.1 proof.
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1 - Jameson Distiller’s Batch: single pot still wh***ey, five cask types including oloroso sherry and virgin Irish oak. 92 proof.
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09/01/2026

Are you familiar with W***y The Hillbilly? Mountain Dew has a really fun history not everyone knows about.
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What’s the most expensive bourbon you’d mix with Mountain Dew?
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08/22/2026

The age statement is the most over-read number on a bourbon label. So many factors go into the final product. Climate, rickhouse position, char level, mash bill, finishing, oak seasoning, yeast, and on and on and on. Full breakdown in the free Distiller app.
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08/20/2026

Have you ever heard of the Man in the Green Hat? For ten years of Prohibition, George Cassiday ran a bootlegging operation inside Congress.
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It started in 1920 at DC’s Hotel Varnum, where a friend introduced him to two southern congressmen who had voted for Prohibition but wanted wh***ey anyway. Business grew by referral until a congressman suggested he move his stock into the US House Office Building itself.
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He got a basement storeroom, a special knock for buyers, and by his own count ran about 25 deliveries a day, hauling supply from New York and Philadelphia in suitcases.
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A 1925 arrest got him barred from the House side of the building. The press noted his light green felt hat, and the Man in the Green Hat was born. He moved to the Senate Office Building and sold for five more years, until a sting caught him in 1930 delivering six bottles of gin in the senators’ parking lot.
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His sentence: 18 months, with permission to sign out of jail each night and sleep at home. He never spent a night in prison. Then he talked.
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His five-part tell-all ran on the front page of the Washington Post days before the 1930 election, claiming 4 in 5 members of Congress bought his liquor. Supporters of the ban lost big at the polls, and Prohibition was repealed three years later. He never named a single customer, and when his wife got his confiscated black book back, she burned it.
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08/18/2026

What’s your favorite Bowmore release? Tell us below.
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Bonus fact for the collectors: the Black Bowmore story gets stranger. The last two casks were losing so much to evaporation they were merged into one in 2002, then forgotten entirely until a stock check turned the cask up in 2014. It was bottled as a 50 year old at £16,000 a bottle.
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And the Est. 1779 on the label? Tradition, not paperwork. The earliest documented licence dates to 1816, and wh**ky historians still argue about which Islay distillery is truly the oldest.
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