Corks and Other Bottle Closures A proper cork “POP”! There are few sounds in the whiskey world more satisfying than this. To casual drinkers, it’s just the beginning of the pour. To whiskey nerds, it’s important. That tiny cylinder of bark sitting in the neck of your favorite bourbon bottle carries thousands of years of…
Why Bourbon, Rye, and Whiskey Bottles Look the Way They Do Before you ever smell the caramel, before the first sip of vanilla, oak, or spice, before the Kentucky hug shows up, you judge the bottle. Every whiskey drinker does it. Some bottles look like they belong in a dusty frontier saloon. Others look like…
The Buena Vista Whiskey Story That Quietly Became a Georgia Craft-Spirits Footnote Some distilleries announce themselves with bright lights and big-city polish. Swamp Fox Distilling Co. did something different. It set up shop in Buena Vista, Georgia, in a renovated 1908 cotton warehouse on the town square, leaned hard into local history, and built a…