The Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseur’s Choice 1997 Balblair 23 Year Old
Tasting notes:The Gordon & MacPhail Connoisseur’s Choice Balblair 1997 23 Year Old, 56.2%, explodes out of my glass like a champion 3 year old horse—juiced on [...]
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The Rock Island 21 Year Old Limited Edition Blended Malt (Douglas Laing)
Tasting notes:Before we begin, a Zoom-era amusing anecdote about this dram. Since Stephen moved to Norway, our meetings have been on FaceTime or Zoom. Since the pandemic, [...]
The Midleton Very Rare Vintage Release 2021
Tasting notes:The nose on the Midleton Very Rare Vintage Release 2021 opens gently with peachy, lemony, foaming soap in the bathroom—excuse me, lavatory—of a 1-star [...]
The Waterford Organic Gaia 1.1 Irish Single Malt Whiskey
Tasting notes:The nose of the Waterford Organic Gaia, release 1.1, opens like a full-tang jackknife, by which I mean, it’s like a knife whose blade is made of Tang™. At [...]
The Wemyss Spice King 12 Year Old Highlands and Islay Blended Malt
Tasting notes:The Wemyss Spice King 12 Year Old Highland and Islay Blended Malt nose brings me to the open hearth kitchen I wish I’d grown up in: There are stew-y, prune-y [...]
The Single Cask Nation 2011 Clynelish 9 Year Old
Tasting notes:The nose on the SCN Clynelish 2011 9yo opens with dark cherry candies embedded in the knotholes of old wide-cut pine board flooring—or wide-waled [...]
The X by Glenmorangie–and the X Grapefruit Cocktail
[Editor’s note: In the tasting notes that follow, we review this whisky as it comes, despite the fact that it’s designed for mixing into cocktails. Afterwards, we [...]
The Uncle Nearest 1856 Premium Whiskey
Tasting notes:The Uncle Nearest’s nose blows opens with me writing on a chert blackboard using chalk alternately dipped in honey, then molasses, then slightly-waxy melted [...]
The Domaine de Charron Armagnac Fanciful Flight
We now interrupt your regularly scheduled whisk(e)y review for a discussion of a fanciful flight of Domaine de Charron Armagnacs, all of which are single vintage. This is in [...]
The Waterford Dunbell 1.1 Single Malt Irish Whiskey
[All the Waterford whiskies we were sent are 50% abv and made from locally-grown Irish barley. Trying four of the first five releases gave us the chance to assess [...]
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