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t8ke
  • Home
  • Who’s t8ke?
    • Contact Me
    • About
    • Work
  • Reviews
    • Complete Review Archive
    • Scoring & Review Highlights
  • Press
  • Purchase
  • Private Selections by T8KE
    • Shop
    • THE REVERIES
    • Penelope x T8KE Collaboration: NOBLE Limited Release – 2025 Release
    • Bardstown Bourbon Company Collaboration Series: T8KE – 2025 Release
    • Penelope Bourbon x T8KE: F*ck Cancer Limited Edition Cask Strength, 2025 Release
    • 2025 Single Barrel Program Barrels – Part I
    • 2025 Single Barrel Program Barrels – Part II
    • 2025 Single Barrel Program Barrels – Part III
    • 2024 Single Barrel Program Barrels
    • 2023 Single Barrel Program Barrels
    • 2022 Single Barrel Program Barrels
    • 2021 Single Barrel Program Barrels
    • Barrell Craft Spirits x T8ke: Infinite Series (2024)
    • Barrell Batch T8ke Bourbon
    • Manifest Whiskey Project
  • Projects
    • THE REVERIES
    • Penelope Bourbon x T8KE: F*ck Cancer Limited Edition Cask Strength, 2025 Release
    • Odes To Vie
    • Compass Box Transatlanticism (2024)
    • The HIVE
    • t8ke x Dancing Goat Presents
    • Private Bean Program
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Press

  • Scotch Brand Owned by Brown-Forman Had Multi-Million Dollar Expansion Plans, Then an Energy Company Changed Everything
  • One of Johnnie Walker’s ‘Four Corner’ Distilleries is Shutting Down its Visitor’s Center
  • Bottle of Pappy Van Winkle Breaks Records for Most Expensive American Whiskey at Auction — Here’s How Much it Sold For
  • A State in India Owes Liquor Suppliers $466 M: Here’s Why Brands Like Brown-Forman are Still Doing Business There
  • For Valentine’s Day, BuzzBallz Drops 9-Carat Pink Diamond Ring Worth $35K — With Starting Bids at $2.14
  • Review #2651 – Bruichladdich Links “K Club Ireland 16th Hole” 14 Year Single Malt
  • Review #2650 – Maryland Heritage Series Lorely 16 year Bourbon
  • Review #2649 – Ardbeg Eureka 25th Anniversary of the Ardbeg Committee Edition
  • Review #2648 – A.H. Hirsch Reserve 16 Year Straight Bourbon
  • Review #2647 – Foursquare Rum 17 Year “Raconteur”
  • Review #2645 – Bruichladdich 23 Year Black Art 1990 (4.1, 2013 Release)
  • Sour Grapes: Trump Threatens 200% Tariff on French Wines, Champagne Over ‘Board of Peace’ and Gaza
  • RNDC Gets ‘Significant’ Financing from Mystery Lender to ‘Strengthen’ Business Operations
  • Whiskey Release Radar: The Newest Whiskeys from Johnnie Walker, Heaven Hill and More (Week of January 23)
  • BuzzBallz Challenged A Patent For This Small Brand — And Lost
  • Review #2646 – Old Crow 10 Year Chessmen Kentucky Straight Bourbon (1969 Release, Light Pawn)
  • Stoli Group USA, Kentucky Owl Move Into Liquidation Process
  • Mysterious Investor Group Eyes Uncle Nearest For Potential Acquisition
  • Review #2644 – Buffalo Trace Antique Collection: Thomas H. Handy Rye (2022 Release, 130.9 Proof)
  • Review #2643 – Aberfeldy 21 Year Argentinian Malbec Cask Finish
  • 3 Major Players in Whiskey are Hosting Bartending Competitions
  • Review #2642 – Colonel E.H. Taylor Barrel Proof (2024 Release, 127.3 Proof)
  • Review #2641 – Lagavulin 20 Year Old Feis Isle (2020 Release, Festival Exclusive)
  • The WHO Believes Higher Taxes on ‘Too Affordable’ Alcohol Will Prevent Disease — But Will It Work?
  • Review #2639 – Springbank 28 Year Murray McDavid 1969 Sherry Cask #7787
  • Whiskey Release Radar: The Newest Whiskeys from Woodford, Glenlivet and More (Week of January 16)
  • The Best Zero-Proof Drinks for a Decadent Dry January Detox
  • Golf Team Helmed by Sergio García Just Lost a Partial Trademark Dispute Against Sazerac’s Cinnamon Whisky Brand
  • Major Distributor RNDC to Sell Off a Piece of Portfolio One Year After its California Collapse
  • A Popular TV Chef Can’t Trademark His Name Thanks to a Discontinued Whisky Brand That the Ardbeg Parent Company Owns
  • Ontario Premier Doug Ford ‘100% Can’t Wait’ to Pull Crown Royal from Liquor Shops — Here’s Why
  • Review #2640 – Michter’s 10 Year Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Rye (2023 Release – 23C0875)
  • Review #2638 – Michter’s 10 Year Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon (2023 Release – 23A0270)
  • Review #2637 – Bunnahabhain 21 Year PX Release
  • Review #2636 – Bruichladdich 15 Year Dramfool 2007 Sauternes Finished Single Malt
  • Review #2635 – Bunnahabhain 12 Year SMWS 2013 10.278 “Viajando Al Oeste A Casa”
  • Review #2634 – Michter’s 10 Year Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Rye (2024 Release – 24C1485)
  • Review #2633 – Glenrothes 16 Year SMWS 2008 30.126 “Rambunctious But Friendly”
  • Whiskey Release Radar: The Newest Whiskeys from Glenmorangie, Lock, Stock & Barrel and More (Week of January 9)
  • Review #2632 – Four Roses Single Barrel Limited Edition 2013 0 OBSK 14 Year
  • Review #2631 – Highland Park 25 Year SMWS 1999 4.395 “Tipples and Brine In The Old Coal Mine”
  • Fawn and Keith Weaver Sue Ex-Uncle Nearest CFO Alleging Forgery, Fraud, Defamation
  • Review #2630 – Michter’s 10 Year Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon (2024 Release – 24B0675)
  • Teeling Irish Whiskey Profits Dropped by 91% in 2025
  • Review #2629 – Mannochmore 15 Year SMWS 2009 64.158 “Dessert Course At The Speakeasy”
  • Review #2628 – Found North Batch 007-S “Second Summit”
  • Review #2627 – La Maison Du Whisky Artist Series #13: Glen Garioch 34 Year 1988
  • Review #2626 – La Maison Du Whisky Artist Series #13: Glenburgie 28 Year 1995
  • Review #2625 – La Maison Du Whisky Artist Series #13: Bowmore 21 Year 2001
  • Review #2624 – La Maison Du Whisky Artist Series #13: Tamdhu 16 Year 2006
  • Review #2623 – La Maison Du Whisky Artist Series #13: Ardmore 13 Year 2009
  • Amid Industry-Wide ‘Dynamic Changes,’ Some Napa Wineries Consider Cutting Costs of Tasting Rooms
  • Caught Red-Handed: Russian Vintners ‘Openly Bragging’ About Attempts to Smuggle Wines Into San Francisco Wine Competition
  • Review #2622 – Makers Mark Star Hill Farm Wheat Whiskey (2025 Release)
  • Review #2617 – L’Encantada Renaissance 2 Domaine Del Cassou 1987
  • Review #2616 – Macallan Distillery 29 Year Speymalt 1974 Single Cask Scotch
  • The Best Whiskey Releases of 2025
  • Review #2615 – L’Encantada Renaissance 2 Domaine Lous Pibous 1995
  • Review #2614 – Glendronach 28 Year 1993 Pedro Ximenez Sherry Puncheon #6736 FL Single Cask Bottling
  • Review #2613 – LEncantada Renaissance 2 Domaine Cutxan 2005
  • Review #2611 – Domaine DEsperance Folle Blanche 2001 Single Cask #75
  • Review #2610 – Glenfiddich 30 Year
  • Review #2609 – Cognac Frapin 1994 Single Cask
  • Review #2608 – Benriach 35 Year SMWS 1989 12.87 “Velvety Smooth”
  • Review #2607 – Fettercairn 28 Year
  • Review #2606 – Eric Bordelet 1976 Single Cask Calvados
  • Review #2605 – Benrinnes 21 Year Cask Strength
  • Review #2604 – Through the Grapevine Cognac Fradon Lot 70 Petite Champagne Cognac
  • Campari Sells Off ‘Iconic’ Amaro Averna to Illva Saronno for $117.2 M
  • ‘Daycaps,’ Piña Coladas and Mixology Maximalism: Bacardi Predicts the Major Drinking Trends of 2026
  • Review #2599 – Benrinnes 15 Year SMWS 36.221 “Meaty Mirepoix”
  • Review #2603 – Wild Turkey Masters Keep Beacon (2025 Release)
  • Review #2602 – Armagnac Domaine dAurensan 2006 15 Years
  • Review #2600 – LEncantada Tattoo Series #1
  • Review #2601 – Knob Creek 21 Year (KC001, 2025 Release)
  • Jim Beam’s Main Kentucky Campus to See a Dry 2026 Due to Closures
  • Spirits Supplier Diageo Negotiated a Deal to Sell Majority Stake in Brewery for $2.3B to Asahi
  • Making Spirits Bright: Whiskey and Cookie Pairings for the Holidays in 2025
  • Whiskey Release Radar: The Newest Whiskeys from Wilderness Trail, Heaven Hill and More (Week of December 19)
  • Heineken Thinks People Aren’t Socializing Enough — and it’s Offering Free Beers to Change That in This Country
  • Home Distilling Lawsuit Filed by Brewer Who Alleges Law is Unconstitutional
  • Review #2614: Cedar Ridge Port Cask Rye
  • Best World Whiskies for Gifts This Holiday Season
  • BuzzBallz Drops 10 Bags Worth Over $5K That are ‘A Whole Vibe’ — Yet They Retail for $4
  • Review #2613 – Paul John Brilliance Indian Single Malt Whisky
  • Whiskey Release Radar: The Newest Whiskeys from Jack Daniel’s, Old Forester and More (Week of December 12)
  • Parent Company Behind Green River Distilling Breaks Ground on Project to Bring its Capacity to 35M Bottles
  • Could an Unmarked Store in Saudi Arabia Mean The Country is Relaxing Its Liquor Laws?
  • The Best American Whiskeys for Gifts in 2025
  • Whiskey Release Radar: The Newest Whiskeys from Barrell Craft, Benriach and More (Week of December 5)
  • Diageo Stands Firm Amid Boycott Threats and Finalizes Crown Royal Plant Closure
  • The 6 Best Bourbons for Gifting Season in 2025
  • Review #2612 – Found North Snow Day 10 Year First Flurry (2025 Release)
  • Everything’s Bigger in… Tennessee? Chattanooga Whiskey Jumps on Large Format Trend
  • Pernod Ricard Sells Imperial Blue to a Major Indian Spirits Brand for $485M
  • Whiskey Release Radar: The Newest Whiskeys from Highland Park, New Riff and More (Week of November 28)
  • Elijah Craig Ventures Into Cologne With ‘Rich’ and ‘Layered’ Cologne
  • The Best Black Friday Deals for Whiskey Fans in 2025
  • Review #2599 Lost Lantern Farmer’s Fields Bourbon
  • Whiskey Release Radar: The Newest Whiskeys from Bardstown Bourbon, Jameson and More (Week of November 21)