[This product of France is a blend of Scottish and French whiskies finished in Cognac casks.] Tasting notes:We start with the stopper. Because that’s where it all [...]
Tasting notes:This noses up nicely with corn, honey, magnolia blossoms, and perfume. A touch of wood and…is it a whiff of cultured butter sitting out in the sun, in [...]
Tasting notes:They say that in the land of blind nosing, the one nostril man is king. [Stephen: No. No one says this.] I mention this because my left [...]
Tasting notes:Ah, this noses up with a propitious mustiness. My heart races, and my mind briefly reels. I am certain that I feel its ennobling effects just as palpably as if [...]
[This is another in a series of Westland bottlings that feature ex-Westland casks that Westland then lent to a brewery, which then aged some of their beer in them, then gave [...]
Tasting notes:“The Briar Patch,” says the sign on the door. And as the name implies, everyone inside is happy to have found it. We get the lacquer of a coronet that [...]
Tasting notes:The first whiff is a classic aroma from a Mother’s Day breakfast made by an 8-year old daughter who is in the “magical glitter rainbow unicorn” [...]
Tasting notes:This Islay gem has a comely nose. One might even say pulchritudinous, but that is a word that sounds so different from what it means that I abjure its use. [...]
Tasting notes:I’m going to call the marketing department at Diageo to suggest that they trademark this wonderful dram as the Whisky for Socially Distant Drinkers.™ [...]
Tasting notes:Early in my whisky drinking years, when many of the distillery names were mysterious and even the familiar ones presented pronunciation challenges, I remember [...]