By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ It would be fair to say Pennsylvania whiskey begins and ends with its rye, and Pittsburgh’s Wigle Distillery is as good an example of how that works in practice as one is likely to find. Rye isn’t the only whiskey–nor whiskey the only spirit–they make there, but their rye footprint …
By Richard Thomas Redwood Empire Whiskeys comes from the Sonoma-based Graton Distillery, who created and inaugurated the brand with the release of three expressions in 2019: Pipe Dream, Emerald Giant and Lost Monarch. They followed up on that last year with the start of a bottled in bond brand extension, with two redwood forest themed …
Benriach Single Malt Scotch Whisky announces the second edition releases of Malting Season and Smoke Season, two annual expressions that reflect the traditional methods of Scotch whisky-making dating back to the earliest days of the Speyside distillery. In a nod to Benriach’s mothballed history where it remained in operation through floor malting and producing peated …
Wild Turkey Master’s Keep Unforgotten, the newest release in the annual limited-edition series, was inspired by a fortuitous and unexpected co-mingling of young rye and mature bourbon released more than a decade ago. Master Distiller Eddie Russell has resurrected the memory of that release, Wild Turkey Forgiven, with the release of Master’s Keep Unforgotten, a …
Whiskey is one of the most revered drinks globally, and it is a gentleman’s drink. You are missing out if you are a whiskey drinker and have only paired your drink with ice or tonic water. Several different types of food can be paired with whiskey to enhance the flavors. There are also different types …
By Richard Thomas As American enthusiasts are left scratching their heads over exactly why even Sazerac Rye is so scarce that it’s now kept in locked cabinets at the liquor store, retail prices for limited edition whiskeys that should be scarce continue to spiral. Leaving inflation out of it, the kind of bourbon one would …
Dewar’s 12 Year Old was a creation of the company’s sixth Master Blender, Tom Aitken, and has since become a classic expression for a Scotch whisky brand that is a favorite among Americans. Now the 12 Year Old has been completely rebooted by their seventh Master Blender, Stephanie Macleod. Double-aging the whisky in hand-selected, first-fill …
By Kenrick Thurston-Wilcox Rating: C+ Established in 2013, Copperworks was founded by 2 men, Jason Parker and Micah Nutt. Both possessing a background in craft brewing, they decided to try their hand at distilling once it became legal in Washington state. They chose to start with a craft beer wash instead of a normal distillers …
By Richard Thomas Although they were around prior to March 2020, it was the Pandemic that brought canned and bottled cocktails into their own. My talks with spirits industry marketers indicated that much of that was driven by the (inexplicable) popularity of flavored seltzer drinks. Cut off from bars, more folks paid attention to them. …
The latest installment of Midwinter Night’s Dram, the sourced whiskey blended by Utah’s High West, has reached it’s 10th anniversary this year. In keeping with the brand’s Shakespearean allusions, the fan favorite distillery and blenders have dubbed it “Act 10.” This current version of the expression draws on the ubiquitous 95% rye, 5% barley malt …
