Let’s Talk About “Smooth”
It may be the most ubiquitous descriptor in drinks. Is it also the most reviled?
- story: Danny Chau
- photo: Mallory Heyer
Japan’s Forgotten Whisky
Koji whisky is one of the country’s most distinctive, and overlooked, products. Can it break through in the modern era?
- story: Susannah Skiver Barton
- illustration: Nick Hensley
Your Jamaican Rum Starter Pack
To understand the singularly funky style, begin with the essentials.
- story: Punch Staff
- illustration: Nick Hensley
Fawn Weaver Is Changing the Face of American Whiskey
The first Black woman to launch and lead a major spirit brand has made it her mission to ensure she becomes one of many.
- story: Megan Lloyd
- photo: Nick Hensley
Does “Craft” Exist in Spirits Anymore?
Upon the release of Leopold Bros.’ exactingly made Three Chamber Rye, Thad Vogler considers the lost-and-found-again meaning of “craft.”
- story: Thad Vogler
- illustration: Bea Crespo
The Essential New-School Fernet
Meet the producers reimagining amaro’s most brooding style.
- story: Brad Thomas Parsons
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Your Mezcal Starter Pack
To understand the category, start with the essentials.
- story: Punch Staff
- illustration: Nick Hensley
Bourbon Thrives in a Post-Pappy Era
In the final installment of a three-part series, Aaron Goldfarb examines the last decade, a period of single-barrel madness and craft whiskey’s coming of age.
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- photo: Raphaelle Macaron
Your Aperitivo Starter Pack
Everything you need to dive headfirst into the bitter, bubbly golden hour.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Nick Hensley
A Shot and a Dare
The life and times of the Cement Mixer, New Jersey Turnpike and other canonical rite-of-passage dare shots.
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- photo: Lizzie Munro
The Birth of the Bourbon Hype Machine
In the second installment of a three-part series, Aaron Goldfarb examines the early 2000s, when the push toward higher proofs and limited-edition releases built the modern marketplace as we know…
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- illustration: Raphaelle Macaron
Who Is Bourbon For?
A wave of Black-led groups is challenging the archetypal image of the bourbon enthusiast, and charting a new future for the category along the way.
- story: Yolanda Evans
- illustration: Nick Hensley