With this penultimate instalment of my look at cask finishes in whisky, I am about to review the Glenglassaugh Portsoy. Potentially, this could be an interesting look at a different… Read More »Finishing School: Glenglassaugh Portsoy Review
Writing a series of reviews on Cask finished whiskies in 2025, I cannot skip the one distillery that arguably gives us some of the most interesting uses of non-traditional casks.… Read More »Finishing School: Glasgow 1770 Small Batch Marsala Cask Peated Review
This next chapter on my cask finish series was supposed to go online a few days ago, but between Easter vacations and a rogue bout of flu, things got delayed… Read More »Finishing School: Craigellachie 13 year old Bas Armagnac Review
Another stop in this series about cask-finished whiskies and another wine, this time Sauternes. Sauternes cask finishes have been around since the early 2000s (at least as far as I… Read More »Finishing School: Ardnamurchan AD/ Sauternes Cask Release Review
Continuing my series on cask finishes, today I shift to red wine casks. For today’s review, I’ll taste the Arran Amarone Cask Finish, an annual special release from Lochranza Distillery.… Read More »Finishing School: Arran Amarone Cask Finish Review
For the next couple of weeks, I’ll be focusing on cask finishes to explore how different types of casks affect the flavour of whisky and how well (or not) these work. Today, I start with a review of whisky finished in Madeira casks, the Murray McDavid Inchgower, from the Cask Craft series.
It’s time to wind this little excursion into Bourbon down and get back to Scottish Single Malts. But not yet. Before I wrap things up, I still have one bottle to review. Today it’s time to review the Elijah Craig 12-year-old Barrel Proof.
My previous post allowed me to talk about Store Picks and sourced Bourbon. Today’s review of the Henry McKenna Single Barrel Bottled-in-Bond is an opportunity to touch on what a bonded whisky is and provide a quick look at whisky Allocation.
For my next Bourbon post, I wanted to tackle a much more common topic in US whiskey than Single Malts: Store Picks or Hand Picks. I picked this Yellowstone Hand… Read More »Bourbon Bonanza: Yellowstone Hand Picked Single Barrel Review
One of the realities of Bourbon in Europe is that the available choices are quite poor, to say the least. Here in Italy, the situation is even sadder. Apart from… Read More »Bourbon Bonanza: Old Forester 1920 Prohibition Style review