Woodford Chinkapin Aged, Peated Angel's Envy, Sweetens Cove's Flagship, and More New Releases

With one notable exception, American whiskeys are the stars this week’s new releases. Most are limited edition and experimental, such as the two distillery exclusives from Angel’s Envy—one a bourbon that explores grain and the other a rye that features flavors of peat smoke—and the latest Master’s Collection bourbon from Woodford, which does a deep dive into just how American oak can influence whiskey. Heaven Hill has also introduced this year's Grain-to-Glass wheated bourbon, while O.H. Ingram, the brand best known for aging its whiskeys on the Mississippi River, is back with a wheater of its own. From outside Kentucky, there’s even more bourbon to mine. The Peyton Manning and Andy Roddick-owned Sweetens Cove returns with not one but two new Tennessee bourbons, Texas-based Garrison Brothers has debuted a bourbon finished in rye barrels, and Colorado’s Laws has added another bourbon to its Four Grain lineup. From Seattle, American single malt maker Copperworks has brought a single cask out in support of the Craft Maltsters Guild, and Single Cask Nation has a new collection of 8 single cask scotch whiskies.

Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection 2025: Sweet Oak Bourbon

ABV: 55.2%
SRP: $180
Availability: Online, at select Kentucky retailers, and at the distillery

Woodford Reserve has a new entry in its high-end Master’s Collection, which typically spotlights interesting finishes and experimental mashbills. The 2025 release focuses on maturation, featuring a bourbon aged entirely in chinkapin oak barrels. Chinkapin is a species of white oak that’s native to eastern and central parts of North America. It's a somewhat uncommon wood in whisky—only a few producers like Angel’s Envy, Teeling, and Buffalo Trace have utilized it—and it tends to lend sweet notes.

Angel’s Envy Two-Grain Kentucky Straight Bourbon

ABV: 56%
SRP: $55
Availability: Distillery exclusive

Angel’s Envy Peated Cask Kentucky Straight Rye

ABV: 50%
SRP: $55
Availability: Distillery exclusive

Angel’s Envy has two new expressions, both of which are exclusively available at the distillery in Louisville. The first one is a two-grain bourbon, which has a mashbill of 90% corn and 10% malted barley. All of the grains used to make this whiskey were sourced from Langley Farms, a family-owned farm in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Only 17,592 bottles are available.

The second expression taps into the distillery’s cask finishing prowess. It’s a 6 year old rye, which is finished for an undisclosed period of time in casks that previously held peated scotch from Islay. This one is even more limited than its bourbon counterpart, with only 7,200 bottles available.

Heaven Hill Grain to Glass Wheated Bourbon (2025 Release)

ABV: 53.3%
SRP: $100
Availability: Nationwide

Heaven Hill just released the latest batch of its Grain to Glass wheater. The newcomer utilizes the same mashbill as last year’s version (52% corn, 35% wheat, and 13% malted barley, all grown by family-owned Peterson Farms), but this year the distillery is spotlighting a different corn strain named Beck’s 6225. The 2025 batch keeps the 6 year old age statement, but it has a notably lower proof point than its predecessor—coming in at 106.6 Proof compared to the original’s 121 Proof.

Sweetens Cove 5 Year Old Tennessee Bourbon

ABV: 46.85%
SRP: $45
Availability: Nationwide

Sweetens Cove Dunwoody 6 Year Old Wheated Tennessee Bourbon

ABV: 47.5%
SRP: $60
Availability: Nationwide

Sweetens Cove is back with two new Tennessee bourbons. The 5 year old wil be the flagship going forward, making it the first permanently available bottle in the Sweetens Cove lineup. Dunwoody, named after the tree that overlooks Sweetens Cove Golf Club, is a limited release wheater. Both bourbons will be available at restaurants, bars, and golf courses throughout Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Colorado, South Carolina, and North Carolina, and online at sweetenscovespirits.com, toward the end of the month.

Retired NFL star Peyton Manning, tennis great Andy Roddick, and other investors founded Sweetens Cove in 2020, naming it after the eponymous 9-hole golf course they co-own in Marion County, Tennessee. Its whiskeys, sourced from an undisclosed distillery, had been blended by master distiller and blender Marianne Eaves, though she did not participate in these two recent releases. The majority of the brand’s offerings have been limited, which makes these new expressions something of a departure, given that they’ll be around for longer. We’ve been fans of past Sweetens Cove releases, naming Kennessee, the brand’s blend of Kentucky and Tennessee whiskeys, the No.-11 whiskey on our Top 20 list of 2022.

O.H. Ingram Uncharted Wheated Bourbon

ABV: 46%
SRP: $40
Availability: Limited

O.H. Ingram, the brand best known for aging all of its whiskeys on retrofitted barges floating on the Mississippi River, has unveiled a new wheater. Uncharted is a blend of 47 barrels, including 4–6 year old bourbons which were contract distilled at Green River to Ingram’s exact specifications. The newcomer has the same mashbill as the brand’s mainline River Aged 107 Proof wheated bourbon, but it features a notably lower proof point. (Uncharted is the lowest-proof whiskey we’ve seen from Ingram thus far.)

Garrison Brothers Sonora Straight Bourbon

ABV: 54%
SRP: $160
Availability: Limited

For Texas distillery Garrison Brothers’ latest release, inspiration came from the Caverns of Sonora—limestone caves west of Sonora, Texas that are over 100 million years old and home to a complex network of calcite crystal formations. The caverns weren't used in the whiskey maturation process; Garrison Brothers is merely recognizing their natural beauty as being inspirational.

While master distiller Donnis Todd has typically taken lead on all of the distillery’s projects, this release saw distiller Samantha Olvera collaborate with him throughout production. Olvera joined the distillery in 2014, as part of its hospitality team; by 2017, she was working in the stillhouse. The 7 year old whiskey spent its first 4 years in American oak before being finished in rye whiskey barrels (from an unnamed source, though the distillery notes the rye within was aged for 12 years) for 3 years.

The first 1,000 bottles of Sonora will be available at a release party scheduled for October 18 at the Hye, Texas-based distillery. After that, the remaining bottles will be available at garrisonbros.com, and at retailers nationwide. There’s also a philanthropic angle here: $5 from every bottle sold will be donated to the Texas Cave Management Association, which owns and manages numerous caves nature preserves, and karst regions across Texas, and works to preserve the Caverns of Sonora.

Laws Founder’s Select Colorado Straight Bourbon

ABV: 45%
SRP: $43
Availability: Colorado exclusive

Denver, Colorado-based Laws Whiskey House has added another bourbon to its Four Grain bourbon lineup, which includes the flagship whiskey, as well as bottled in bond and cask strength iterations. Made from a mashbill of 60% corn, 20% heirloom wheat, 10% heirloom rye, and 10% heirloom malted barley, the new bourbon is aged for four years—a year older than the standard and cask-strength Four Grain bourbons (but younger than the bottled in bond variant, which is 7 years old). The grains are grown on two Colorado family farms, both of which are located in the state’s San Luis Valley. Another difference from the flagship bourbon: Founder’s Select is proofed down to 45% ABV, whereas the flagship clocks in at 47.5% ABV. In crafting the whiskey, the distillery says it’s meant to be “both approachable and complex.” Laws Founder’s Select bourbon is now available at the Laws Whiskey House Whiskey Sanctuary in Denver, and at Colorado retailers.

Copperworks Craft Malt Month 2025 American Single Malt

ABV: 62.95%
SRP: $90
Availability: 168 bottles

The latest American single malt from Seattle-based Copperworks Distilling Co. celebrates and supports the Craft Maltsters Guild, which is a group of craft malthouses operating across North America. The 4 year old whiskey isn’t totally new, but, rather, a single cask held back from the distillery’s inaugural Farmsmith release, which came out in July 2024. It was distilled entirely from Baronesse barley grown at one farm—in this case Joseph’s Grainery in Colfax, Washington—and malted by Spokane’s LINC Malt.

There are just 168 bottles from the cask, available online at copperworksdistilling.com as well as at either of the distillery’s two tasting rooms (located in Seattle and Kenmore). Copperworks will donate $10 from every sale to the Craft Maltsters Guild, in support of its mission to carry on craft malting traditions throughout North America.

Single Cask Nation: Eight Single Cask Scotch Whisky Releases

ABV: 53%-61.6%
SRP: $100-175
Availability: Limited

Independent bottler Single Cask Nation has unveiled a new crop of single cask scotch whiskies—some from rarely seen distilleries—in keeping with its mission of bringing lesser known bottlings to whisky lovers in the U.S. This round features whiskies from Aberfeldy, Benrinnes, Mannochmore, Ben Nevis, Caol Ila, Teaninich, Blair Athol, and Balblair. These limited expressions, which are all in 700 ml. bottles, are being sold at specialist retailers in 23 states across the U.S. Those states are: AK, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, LA, MD, MA, MN, NV, NJ, NM, NY, OR, RI, TN, TX, DC, and WI. Here are the whiskies:

Aberfeldy 10 Year Old
Second fill bourbon barrel (2 year finish)
60.5% ABV, 221 bottles, $100

Benrinnes 12-Year-Old
New charred oak hogshead (3 year finish)
57.9% ABV, 266 bottles, $120

Mannochmore 17-Year-Old
Refill charred red wine barrique (3 year finish)
53% ABV, 258 bottles, $175

Ben Nevis 10 Year Old
First fill Spanish oloroso hogshead (4 year finish)
61.6% ABV, 257 bottles, $100

Caol Ila 15 Year Old
Refill Bourbon Hogshead
57% ABV, 288 bottles, $150

Teaninich 15 Year Old
Second fill recharred red wine barrel (4 year finish)
58.1% ABV, 269 bottles, $120

Blair Athol 11 Year Old
Refill charred French oak barrique (5 year finish)
61.8% ABV, 252 bottles, $110

Balblair 17 Year Old
First fill American oak PX sherry HHD (3 year finish)
61.8% ABV, 252 bottles, $110

Single Cask Nation was founded in 2011 by Joshua Hatton and Jason Johnstone-Yellin. Its single cask bottlings focus mainly on Scotland, but occasionally highlight whiskies from the U.S., India and elsewhere around the world. Last year the company was acquired by The Artisanal Spirits Company, owner of The Single Malt Whisky Society.