High Wire Distilling in Charleston, SC, is using a grain from the past to make its award-winning whiskey.

Six years back, a distillery decided to throw out the rulebook on how bourbon gets made. The folks at 15 STARS Fine Aged Bourbon had a straightforward question: what happens when you swap regular cor ...

Forgotten heritage grains — corn, rye, wheat, and barley — are being used to craft distinctive and complex whiskeys. Here are ...

At High Wire Distilling in Charleston, Ann Marshall and Scott Blackwell revived heirloom Jimmy Red corn to make terroir-driven, Southern-inspired whiskey. Without grain — corn, rye, barley — there ...

But now, the heirloom corn Vargas grows is in vogue. It accounts for 20 of the 50 acres on his farm in Ixtenco, in the central state of Tlaxcala. Vargas, 53, remembers just one acre reserved for it ...

IXTENCO, Mexico — On the slopes of the Malinche volcano, Juan Vargas starts the dawn routine he’s had since childhood, carefully checking stalks of colorful native corn. For years, Vargas worried that ...