Since its first release in 2013, High West’s A Midwinter Night’s Dram has paved the way for cask-finished American whiskey. That first release—labeled “Act 1,” with most subsequent acts dropping at an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Thomas Tao is an NYC-based spirits writer and media producer. High West, a two-decade innovator in American whiskey, is ...

I’m old enough to remember when the American whiskey industry largely kept categories like bourbon and rye whiskey in their own lanes, so to speak. It’s not necessarily that the idea of blending the ...