The GlenAllachie 18 Year Old
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 [...]
Articles by John
The Westland Cask Exchange Series: Silver City Brewing
[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 [...]
Old Forester Single Barrel Bourbon Norfolk Wine and Spirits Exclusive (Floor 1, Warehouse k, 45% abv)
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 [...]
The Single Malts of Scotland Caol Ila 10 Year Old (58.3% abv)
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” [...]
The Lagavulin 12 Year Old 2019 Special Release
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. [...]
The Singleton of Glen Ord 18 Year Old 2019 Special Release
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.™ [...]
The Dalwhinnie 30 Year Old 2019 Special Release
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 [...]
The Balvenie The Week of Peat 14 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Tasting notes:There is the indelible moment in the Indiana Jones movie franchise when the hero is welcomed to the Guardian of Tradition Dinner at Pankot Palace. [...]
The Fettercairn 12 Year Old
Tasting notes:On the nose I got beef tallow birthday candles on a Boston Crème cake. Now, I’m not saying that it’s a pronounced note or anything. But it’s [...]
The Peerless Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Tasting notes:Our first impressions of the nose include sweetness and herbaceousness. But then some of the surprises emerge: first a chalky note, then a glissando of [...]
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