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.
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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.
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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 Picked Single Barrel for today’s review. Unwittingly, I stumbled into a thornier subject. The topic of sourced whiskey, or whisky…
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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 the mass-market brands used for mixers, and some Old Turkey, which being owned by the Italian spirits multinational Campari gets…
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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) with the journey so far. I just realised I diverted quite a bit from the original plan. And that is…
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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 end on something diametrically opposite: a review of the Laphroaig 10-year-old cask strength. A heavily peated and often hyped Islay…
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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.
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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 my way to Islay, starting with this review of the Kilchoman Batch strength. This bottle had made a cheeky appearance…
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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.
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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 to seek, there luckily are other great options. And so, after reviewing what some call the Campbeltown malt of the…
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