This review round-up was originally published in 2016, and updated in December 2024. Last week I tasted five Rip Van Winkle bourbons. I was a little ambivalent about the project – I’m completely ...

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Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Washington Irving’s classic tale about Rip Van Winkle, a carefree villager who wanders into New York’s Catskill Mountains, drinks with mysterious strangers, and ...

The arrival of September in Kentucky is marked not just by the cooling air and the hum of cicadas fading into memory, but by the annual reappearance of a collection that borders on myth. Old Rip Van ...

The collection features age-stated whiskeys from 10 to 23 years old, plus a bourbon originally distilled at Stitzel-Weller. The 2025 Van Winkle Collection returns this September with six highly ...

Washington Irving was born just as the news reached New York City: The war with England was over. To celebrate, his mother named him after the victorious American general. When he was a boy of 6, ...

One of the weirdest paintings in the National Gallery of Art — and one of my favorites — is John Quidor’s 1849 “The Return of Rip Van Winkle,” which shows Washington Irving’s title character ...