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 [...]
Reviews
The Springbank 12 Year Old Cask Strength (Batch 20)
Tasting notes:After nearly twelve years, we Impostors have learned a few things. This despite our best efforts to remain gustatory tabulae rasae. We have learned, [...]
The Uncle Nearest 1884 Small Batch Whiskey
Tasting notes:This whiskey reminds me, appropriately enough, of my childhood in Tennessee. Not that I drank whiskey as a child there–I did not–but more that the [...]
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 [...]
The Singleton of Dufftown 17 Year Old 2020 Special Release
Tasting notes:In the interest of full disclosure, whenever I see a Dufftown expression I imagine that it comes from the fictional Springfield, not the mythical [...]
The Dalwhinnie 30 Year Old 2020 Special Release
Tasting notes:On the nose, we got lemon treacle with a thin stream of melted dark chocolate included just to see if the master of the house would notice (he didn’t). [...]
The Akashi Meïsei Blended Japanese Whisky
The Akashi Meïsei is an 80 proof special edition blended whisky sold only in France. It’s vatted with 45% single malt, and it’s aged in American oak barrels. [...]
The Single Cask Nation Imperial 24 Year Old 1996 Bourbon Barrel (54.6%)
Tasting notes:The nose is as if a Rosebank married a Dallas Dhu and the two were put inside a parfait. It immediately transports Bill to a psychedelic scene from Yellow [...]
The Pittyvaich 30 Year Old 2020 Special Release
Tasting notes:My initial inspection of this spun-gold liquid is like that of a single kaleidoscope image. I get at first a preposterous array of sensations that I [...]
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