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The Two-Million-Dollar Bottle: The Story of the Macallan 1926

It was distilled the year before the Great Depression, forgotten in a cask for sixty years, and bottled just forty times. Today a single bottle sells for more than a house. Here is how whisky became the most valuable liquid on earth.

Jul 7, 2026 · 9 min read

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The Ranking That Has Governed Bordeaux for 170 Years

In 1855 an emperor asked some wine brokers to make a list. They ranked the great châteaux by price into five tiers, and that list, drawn up in a matter of weeks, still decides the fate of the world's most famous wines today.

Jun 19, 2026 · 9 min readRead →

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The Prince, the Mistress, and the World's Most Expensive Wine

In 1760 a French prince and a king's mistress went to war over a tiny patch of Burgundian dirt smaller than a football field. The prince won, took its wine off the market entirely, and gave it his name. It is still the most coveted wine on earth.

Jun 4, 2026 · 10 min readRead →

The Sake Brewer's Son Who Carried Scotland to Japan

A young Japanese man sailed to Scotland in the 1910s, learned to make whisky, married a Scottish woman, and brought it all home. From that journey came two rival empires and an entire national industry that now beats the Scots at their own game.

May 11, 2026 · 9 min readRead →

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The Two-Million-Dollar Bottle: The Story of the Macallan 1926

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The Prince, the Mistress, and the World's Most Expensive Wine

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The Sake Brewer's Son Who Carried Scotland to Japan