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An interesting Suntory Old Dusty
I've written about rummaging in my father in law's bottle pantry before. As an oenephile he has a wine cellar. He also has an "on deck" pantry where fifty or so wine bottles live, as well as his...
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Canadian Club 6 vs Crown Royal De Luxe
Probably the two biggest selling Canadian whiskies, representing two contrasting interpretations of the corn-rye blended mash bill style of Canadian whisky cry out to be compared head to head. Here I...
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101 World Whiskies To Try Before You Die By Ian Buxton
I'm not going to beat around the bush here, Ian Buxton's 101 World Whiskies To Try Before You Die is utterly indispensable for both serious whisky enthusiast and the casual malt sipper alike. There is...
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Mackmyra The First: The Shy Tiger
Mackmyra (mak-MEE-ra) is one of the most exciting new distilleries in the explosive World Whiskies segment. After an initial small pilot program started in 1999, serious investment and a serious...
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Chip Tate's Mad Geeky Genius
Chip's "Rock Star" case.Chip has brought his current thinking.Balcones Distillery is doing wonderful work lately. Its core expressions of Baby Blue, True Blue, Brimstone, Texas Whisky, Rumble, and...
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Kilchoman 2006 Turns 5 And Gives Me "Vertigo"
Kilchoman distillery is famous for being the first new distillery on Islay in 124 years. It's also famous for being a "field to bottle" operation where some batches at least are made with barley grown...
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Glen Breton Rare 10: Shy Porridge That Blooms In Time
Glen Breton is a fascinating case of cultural transliteration. Davin De Kergommeaux writes a chapter about Glenora Distillery and Glen Breton (and the "battle of the Glen" over the lawsuit concerning...
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Lost Spirits Leviathan 1 is a bold new stroke - but very young yet.
Lost Spirits Distillery is a very new and extremely exciting craft distiller on California's coast with an incredibly cool wooden steam still with a dragon head on its soaring Lyne arm and a...
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Brenne: Single Malt Made In Cognac.
Brenne presents an effusively sweet floral nose and a delicious flavor profile with an up front candied apricot-citrus presentation. It's a success, and proves to be the benchmark of a unique Cognac...
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Ardbeg Supernova 2010 vs Octomore 2.1
Ardbeg Supernova - the extreme model from the maker of serious peat monsters. I miss a lot of Ardbeg special releases, sadly. They are all good and many are excellent. I've been reviewing Octomores and...
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Charbay S & R5: Younger Affordable Hops Freak
Charbay "S" gleams. Whisky distilled from fully hopped finished beer. It's an oddly compelling idea. The luxury polish of a finely crafted beer as the starting point of a distillate is incredibly...
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Smooth Ambler Old Scout & Very Old Scout - Brokered Bourbon As The Right...
Smooth Ambler is an exciting new craft distillery in Lewisburg West Virginia started in 2009 by John Little (and his father-in-law Tag Galyean) . They make a range of white spirits (a vodka, a gin, and...
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An Evening Of Scotch at The Morgan Library With Gordon & MacPhail: 6 Malts...
Update: This event was rescheduled to December 7th, 2012 because of Hurricane Sandy.FYI - This Event happened and was reviewed here:...
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Pacari's Day Of Triumph
Francisco X. Vivar pairing Pacari chocolate & whiskyThis is a post about pairing chocolate with whisky. Chocolate, at the high end, offers a range of different flavors via different cacao...
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The Morgan Library's First Whisky Event: with Gordon & MacPhail
Chris Riesbeck, Gordon & MacPhail Brand Ambassador, presents in The Morgan Dining RoomThe Morgan Library is a little gem of a museum and archive - more a jewel box treasure, really. It's not as...
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Boozeandinfused blog's banana infused Bourbon Old Fashioned.
A few months back G-LO from It's Just The Booze Dancing... blog (http://boozedancing.wordpress.com/) told me about this incredible blog where these nice ladies were geniuses at infusing whiskey (and...
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Dewars 12 vs Johnnie Walker Black - Beauty or Poise
Dewar's 12 is one of the "101 Whiskies You Must Try Before You Die" according to Ian Buxton - and it turns out to have something compelling to offer. But I didn't, until recently. Why? I'm guilty of...
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Tasting Mackmyra deeply: The IWSC European Distiller Of The Year
Mackmyra, the innovative Swedish distillery created by a group of friends following their dream at the end of the 20th century, is the IWSC's European distiller of the year for 2012. (Innovative Irish...
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An Evening Of Scotch & Chocolate
The spread - photography by George GenslerThis event went down Friday March 1, 2013 and it was a tremendous success and a great time.Two remarkable blog posts chronicle this event from the perspective...
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Musing On Small Batch Bourbons & Tasting A Trio: Michter's US1, Four Roses, &...
Batch labelled BourbonSomething about hardship sends me back to the warm comforts of America's native spirit. Hurricane Sandy's aftermath's weeks of powerless dark and cold required the careful...
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