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Seagram's VO Canadian Blended Rye Whisky from 1971 head to head against the...
Seagram's VO was created in 1914 when Joseph Seagram's son Thomas asked distiller William Hortop for a special cask for his upcoming wedding. Hortop created a custom blend. The whisky was so good...
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Sorel and Brenne: an Odd and Compelling Synchronicity
Sorel & Brenne together.Photo: courtesy of Jackie SummersI'm not really a cocktail guy. The concoctions I spend time and energy optimizing are pure whisky plays: the Old Fashioned and the...
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Suntory becomes a caretaker of American Bourbon traditions. And that's OK.
High end Suntory whiskies glitter like the jewels they are. Yamazaki 25 is the second from left. Look at the color of it: all natural - and yet supernaturalThe news that Suntory purchased Beam...
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"Whiskey Women" - the untold story of how Fred Minnick became the new voice...
"Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey" is so important thatI own(ed) 3 copies of it. I have carried it around with me for months, inhabiting it. I...
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Stitzel-Weller Old Fitzgerald Bonded Bourbons From Different Eras: Speaking...
Old Fitz S-W BIBs. 1997 (left), 1959-1966 (right).The story of Stitzel-Weller (S-W) is a story of something very beautiful that died. It has become a symbol and a touchstone of something uniquely and...
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Glenmorangie Companta. The Master Comes Back To Red Wine.
Glenmorangie just came out with its fifth annual limited release. This year it is titled "Companta" which means "Friendship", which Bill Lumsden, master blender at Glenmorangie, said refers to the...
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Considering Michter's.
I love Michter's. But which Michter's? There are two. There is what we'll call "old Michter's" the Pennsylvania distillery in Schaefferstown that people known as Michter's - and which marketed...
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Irish Revival
Irish whiskey is softer, sweeter and lighter than most Scotches, Bourbons, and other World malts. It is a breed apart: particularly easy going, approachable, and lyrical. It generally has a fresh and...
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Whistlepig The Boss Hog - A Rye Whiskey Monster Amid A Background Of...
A few days ago Davin De Kergommeaux, Malt Maniac, leading Canadian whisky blogger, and noted author of the most significant book on Canadian whisky, wrote a piece in whiskyadvocate.com called "A...
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Old Ren's Vanilla Flavor Conundrum
I've been drinking and thinking about Old Ren quite a bit lately since my blog post a couple of months ago and something has begun to bother me. Is it possible that professional magician and...
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Smooth Ambler Old Scout 10 v.s. Old Scout 5
Smooth Ambler has been selling Old Scout Bourbon for a couple of years. It's Bourbon sourced from MGP/LDI and is generally available in 6 and 7 year versions.I originally reviewed Old Scout Batch 1 -...
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Single Cask Nation: It's About Cask Selection
Single Cask Nation (http://singlecasknation.com/) is a private members-only independent bottling business which is part of the Jewish Whisky Company founded by Joshua Hatton and his partners Jason...
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Quick hits - Whisky Live New York 2014
Robin Robinson of Compass Boxwith The GeneralThis was on most people I talked with'shighlight list.Whisky Live continued to grow in 2014. Packed, loaded, full of life and personalities and loaded with...
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The Tragedy of Old Cabin Still
The history of American whiskey is full of stories with all the human drama of Shakespeare's plays. There are triumphs and tragedies; tales of creation and destruction. There are also skeletons in...
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Male Intimacy In American Whiskey Advertising Of The 1930s and 1940s
In the years between the Repeal of Prohibition and the first years after World War II there were a number of advertising campaigns in the USA that emphasized camaraderie between men, and possibly...
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Stepin Fetch It - Racist Themes In American Whiskey Advertising
Last week I discussed covert homosexuality in mid century American whiskey advertising. This week I'll be looking at racism in American whiskey advertising. It's a much bigger topic. Blacks haven't...
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Women in American Whiskey Advertising: Goddesses, Whores, Class Symbols, And...
Given the arc of the historical reviews of how stigmatized minorities appear in whiskey advertising in the USA on this blog over the past week, it's probably no surprise that my topic now is women....
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A note to my father...
Left to right: the author, his father, Robert, his sister, Rhea, and his son, Ben.I was raised by my father, Robert. My mother, Baila, died of cancer a few days after my 8th birthday and my sister,...
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A Large Scale Tasting Of Dusty Old Weller Antiques 1998-2008 Tasted Blind &...
11 Years of Old Weller Antique from 1998 (left) to 2008 (right).The invitation came a couple of months ago. Mike Jasinski - master dusty hunter and a great lover of old bourbons - had assembled a...
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Reuven Weinstein's Warm House... And The Killer Blind.
Hanging out on the Internet Bourbon forums you meet and befriend a lot of interesting people. I love meeting these people in real life. I've met Reuven Weinstein - a master dusty hunter out of New...
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