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Grains of the Past Helping to Plot Whiskey’s Future

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“Everything old is new again.” As true in whiskey as it is in fashion, distillers frequently look to the past for inspiration in bottling, writing their “origins narrative”, and crafting new taste profiles that harken back to a “better time.” Though it is sometimes difficult to sort through marketing hyperbole and reality, heirloom grains are

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Not Just a Pappy Van Winkle Problem: The Growing Scourge of Counterfeit Whiskey

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Counterfeiting is nothing new. In ancient Greece, enterprising schemers would cover less valuable coins with a layer of precious metal to swindle unsuspecting tradesmen, and in the 16th Century the Spanish colonial authorities in Meso-America created fake indigenous stone artwork work to supply booming demand back home in Europe. Even the great Renaissance luminary Michelangelo

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