by Randy Warren | Mar 15, 2026 | General Audience
Barrel picking has been around since the early 1980s. Typically, a distribution retailer, such as Total Wine, would travel to Kentucky and visit a distillery like Buffalo Trace, and they would bring out several barrels from which the retailer would pick their...
by Randy Warren | Feb 26, 2026 | General Audience
Marc Dottore, founder of Dueling Grounds Distillery in Franklin, Kentucky, is committed to doing things the way he believes they should be done, even when everyone tells him there’s an easier path. New Tunes and No Shortcuts Marc came to the whiskey business...
by Randy Warren | Feb 12, 2026 | General Audience
When I pulled up to Burnt Church Distillery in Bluffton, South Carolina, I listened for the moment their story breaks from the usual script. After interviewing distillers from Colorado to Kentucky, I’ve learned that every region tells its own story through...
by Randy Warren | Feb 2, 2026 | General Audience
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Nathan Burkhead, the Maturation and Warehousing Manager at Bulleit Distilling Co., and let me tell you, this conversation changed how I think about modern whiskey making. Nathan’s not a typical bourbon guy wearing...
by Randy Warren | Jan 19, 2026 | General Audience
Jose Calderon of Everglades Distillers sold his house to create a whiskey dream in one of the least likely places you’d expect to find a distillery: the Florida Everglades. He’s a former Special Forces operator who spent 20 years traveling through Latin...
by Randy Warren | Jan 9, 2026 | Business, General Audience, Investors, News
Many of you may have heard consumers are bearing the brunt of the Trump administration’s tariffs. However, this is not the case for the multi-billion-dollar bourbon whiskey marketplace. Instead, these tariffs are affecting which bottles appear on your shelves, their...
