It wasn’t but a year or two ago I watched as a gentleman who was keen to get a bottle of pappy take to the secondary bourbon pages on a mission, to trade up. I watched as he took from quite humble beginnings, and with more than a few friendly trades over the course of […]
If you’re hoping this post would start off with a newsflash that the secondary market is crumbling down and the velvet ropes are parting allowing the masses easy access to allocated bourbon products, I’m sorry to say that’s not happening. Scrolling through social media this week, numerous posts highlight droves of people waiting in a […]
When you head out to your local liquor store in search of your go-to bourbon, in my case Woodford Double Oaked, you can be pretty confident that what you buy today will taste very much like what you’ll buy two months from now and tastes very much like the number of bottles that you have […]
Each year, an estimated five million men and 415 thousand women are diagnosed with early onset Tater Syndrome. Although some experimental medications are currently in the trial phase with hopes for approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the years ahead, the dramatic uptick in cases over the past decade has proved devastating […]
In case you missed it over the past decade the bourbon business has been on a tear, and although some folks would suggest that the bubble is about to burst, it feels like that’s unlikely. I know I’m not going to be putting down my Glencairn anytime soon. Bourbon alone pumps $9 billion into Kentucky’s […]
If you have a pulse, you’ve likely noticed that the level of fraudulent inbounds to your cell, email, Facebook, etc. have grown exponentially over the last year. From the text that clearly was meant for someone else from a random number asking if you got the tee time for Tuesday or the Facebook message that […]
Old Fitzgerald is a delicious wheated bourbon produced by Heaven Hill Distillery and released twice a year in the fall and the spring, with an occasional distillery-only release. The Old Fitzgerald lineup is entirely Bottled-in-Bond, referring to regulations set in the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897 which dictate specific requirements that ensure the quality of the […]
There’s no time quite like the holiday season with the year winding down to a close, the magic that comes with Christmastime born out through kids everywhere and allocated bourbon drops abound. The thought of simply waltzing into your favorite liquor store, or any liquor store for that matter, and happening across a bottle of […]
There’s a handful of folks out in the world that think the bourbon boom is done. A report this past week loosely attempted to make this point, noting that Brown-Forman saw sales of its Jack Daniel’s whiskey fall one whole percent in the first half of this year (of course, they also rose nine percent […]
Bourboneur is an Amazon Affiliate and earns from qualifying purchases. If your family is anything like mine, they started asking you around August for a Christmas list. Christmas, despite being celebrated on December 25th since the dawn of time, seems to be a season that expands by a couple weeks each time it comes around. […]
