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With its purchase of the maker of the Jim Beam brand, Japan’s Suntory Holdings has its eyes on both American culture — and global sales.

First Take: Jim Beam is huge get for Suntory.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A new whiskey created in Kentucky features a blend of age and scarcity that spiked demand — and its price.

As a result, whiskey fans including celebrities and corporate chiefs are angling to snatch up limited stocks of Michter’s Celebration Sour Mash Whiskey for nearly $4,000 per bottle. Shots won’t come cheap, either, fetching an expected $350 a pop.

Limited whiskey sells for nearly $4,000 per bottle – Houston Chronicle.

Buffalo Trace is about “100,000 barrels short” of where it needs to be.

In May the brand warned of a Bourbon shortage as it struggles to keep up with demand and sent out a reminder of that warning in August as demand continues to outweigh supply.

Some of the most sought-after Kentucky bourbon in the nation is now the subject of a whodunnit.

Roughly 65 cases of 20-year-old Pappy Van Winkle bourbon were stolen in what looks to be an inside job from a secure area at Buffalo Trace Distillery’s Frankfort facility, according to Franklin County Sheriff Pat Melton.

via Bourbon heist | Pappy Van Winkle stolen in apparent inside job | The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com.