Month: September 2022

George Dickel Bottled In Bond Tennessee Whiskey (Fall 2008, 11 year)

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I love the variety of American whiskey expressions that have graced the liquor store shelf in recent years. No longer is it just five or six old stalwarts and 1 or 2 fancy special editions, now you can get vintage-dated, age-stated, cask-finished expressions from a wide range of both sourced and distillery-owned brands. I love this, but I also hate trying to review them all. As soon as one new interesting whiskey pops up (say, George Dickel’s first bottled-in-bond release), I blink and now there

Arran Single Malt (18 year)

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There was a time when what existed of the whisky social media “scene” was focused on the Arran distillery, as it was the first and only new distillery in Scotland since the “whisky loch” of the 70s and 80s saw so many distillery closures. (Kinivie opened several years prior, but I just decided it doesn’t count because it’s actually part of Balvenie.) There was much fanfare when Arran released its first 10 year-old single malt and joined the pantheon.

Leopold Bros. Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon

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Leopold Bros. Distillery in Colorado has been flying under the “craft distillery” radar since before people knew what a craft distillery was. The brothers established a micro-distillery in Ann Arbor, Michigan after the turn of the century and then relocated to their current location near Denver in 2008. They were forced by customer demand to expand operations in 2014. Leopold Bros. distills in excess of 20 different spirits (their Apertivo is, in my opinion, the best on the market and way better

Mackinlay’s ‘Shackleton’ Blended Malt Scotch Whisky

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Anyone who was around the whisky blogosphere back in 2011 can’t have avoided the media fervor surrounding the discovery of several crates of antique scotch whisky preserved beneath the Antarctic heritage site of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated ‘Nimrod’ expedition base camp. Three bottles were air-lifted to Scotland for analysis before being returned to the site, and a limited re-creation of the whisky (blended by Whyte & Mackay master blender Richard Paterson aka ‘The Nose’, himself) was sold