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Jack Daniel's Files Next Aged Series Batches — and a Brand-New 12-Year Rye
Three Jack Daniel's COLA approvals from June 23, 2026 point to the next wave of the annual Aged Series — Batch 05 of the 12-Year and Batch 06 of the 10-Year — plus an all-new expression: a 12-Year Tennessee Rye Whiskey making its debut as Batch 01.
Sagamore's Cask-Finish Pipeline: Four New Exclusive Ryes Hit the TTB
Sagamore Spirit received TTB approval for four straight rye label filings in June 2026 — three Distillery Exclusives and one Barrel Reserve — all built on Indiana-distilled stock and finished in some unusually ambitious casks: Amontillado Sherry, Cognac, Rivesaltes, and Reposado Mezcal.
Jefferson's Files a 20-Year-Old Bordeaux-Finished Cask Strength Bourbon
A TTB COLA filing reveals Jefferson's Bourbon Company has registered a 20-year-old Kentucky Straight Bourbon finished in French Bordeaux wine casks and bottled at cask strength — with only 250 bottles in existence.
Heaven Hill Phoenix: An 18-Year Bourbon (Blended with Pre-Fire 30-Year-Old Bourbon) Rises from the Ashes
Heaven Hill just filed a COLA for "Phoenix," a Kentucky Straight Bourbon mingling 18-year-old stock with surviving pre-fire 30-year-old bourbon from the original Old Heaven Hill Springs Distillery — a direct tribute to the catastrophic 1996 fire and the distillery's decades-long rebuild.
Very Olde St. Nick "Royal Alchemy" 17-Year Files with TTB
Preservation Distillery has filed a new Very Olde St. Nick expression — "Royal Alchemy" — a 17-year Kentucky straight bourbon drawn from vintage casks, approved by the TTB on May 29, 2026.
Hard Truth's Dark Roast Rye Goes Bottled in Bond
Hard Truth Distilling Co. has filed a COLA for a new Master Distiller's Reserve expression — a Bottled in Bond Dark Roast Rye distilled in 2019 and bottled in 2026 from just 25 barrels. The label reveals a 50/50 blend of roasted and toasted malt straight rye whiskeys, locked in at 100 proof.
New Riff's Founding-Vintage Trio: Three Distillery-Exclusive 375s
Three simultaneous COLA approvals from New Riff Distilling showcase the Newport, KY distillery's founding-vintage whiskeys: an 11-year bourbon made with malted rye, a 10-year Balboa heirloom rye, and an 11-year flagship rye — each a distillery-exclusive 375 ml bottle.
1792 Wheated Full Proof & Evan Williams First Run: New COLAs Signal Two Very Different Releases
Two fresh TTB approvals from Kentucky's bourbon belt: Barton 1792 files a wheated twist on its high-octane Full Proof, while Heaven Hill's Evan Williams Bourbon Experience readies an ultra-limited 12-year bottling drawn from just 20 inaugural barrels filled on opening day.
Very Olde St. Nick Files Three New Kentucky Bourbons: Superfreak Lot 2, After Breakfast & It's Good to Be Queen
Preservation Distillery filed three new Very Olde St. Nick labels with the TTB on May 28, 2026: a second lot of the micro-batch Superfreak series, a 17-year single-numbered expression called After Breakfast, and a 10-year unfiltered bottling dubbed It's Good to Be Queen.