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
As I am writing this, I am looking back at the notes I wrote when I started this blog. I am comparing my Road to Dram roadmap (pardon the pun)… Read More »Bourbon bonanza: Buffalo Trace (Export Strength) review
I started this series around cask and batch-strength malts with an underappreciated, juicy, sherry-cask-driven malt blend, Old Perth’s take on cask-strength whisky. It is only fitting for the series to… Read More »Full ABV ahead: Laphroaig 10 Cask Strength Review
Today, I am cheating. The whisky I am about to review, the Ardbeg Uigeadail, is not a cask strength whisky, and, as such, it should not appear in this series. At best, it can be classified as a batch strength bottling. But i am crowbaring it in due to sentimentality.
Most of his series about Cask Strength Scottish whisky core releases has focused on bottles with some peat influence. I started with Glasgow Distillery’s Peated Cask Strength to finally make… Read More »Full ABV ahead: Kilchoman Batch Strength Review
You might have noticed the three week gap in posts. Let’s just say that the start of 2025 could have been smoother. Things seem to be looking up, and I am finally back on my regular schedule. Starting with today’s review of the Kilkerran 8-year-old cask strength in its 2023 ex-Bourbon cask release.
No exploration of Single Malt Cask Strength whisky would be complete without a stop in Campbeltown. And while for many, the elusive Springbank 12 remains THE cask strength Campbeltown whisky… Read More »Full ABV ahead: Glen Scotia Victoriana Review
Ask a group of self-declared whisky aficionados which distillery they want to see move into full integrity-presented core range. You can bet Benromach will be mentioned more than once. Luckily there is one core range bottling that elevates itself, the Benromach Cask Strength, the 2014 Batch 2 edition specifically I review today