More bottles than entrants. Bardstown Bourbon Company opened the Discovery Series 11 distillery lottery Thursday morning, and the math is the headline — 7,800 bottles available against 6,200 first-day entrants. That’s a 1.26 ratio, meaning roughly four in five entrants will win an allocation if the pool holds through Sunday’s close. The 2024 lottery cleared…
Master’s Keep just got smaller. Wild Turkey published the 2026 Master’s Keep specs Tuesday morning, and the volume is the headline — 11,400 bottles, the smallest Master’s Keep release since the 2018 Revival edition. Every release since 2018 has been larger. The 2026 edition reverses that trend. The methodology is also the news — a…
Three regional rye flagships landed at retail the same Tuesday — Dad’s Hat Pennsylvania Rye Bottled-in-Bond at $59.99, Kings County Empire Rye 2026 at $79.99, and Sagamore Spirit Reserve Cask Strength at $74.99. Three different states, three different mashbill traditions, three accessible price points. Dad’s Hat carries the historic Monongahela Pennsylvania-rye style — high-rye, heavy…
Pappy Van Winkle 23 Year hammered at $2,750 on Sunday’s April 12 online auction cycle — the bottle’s lowest multiple over MSRP at auction since 2019, about 8.3 times the $329.99 retail price, 47 percent off the 2022 peak of $5,200. That’s the spring’s first defensible Q2 reference point for the entire wheated-allocation tier —…