Granndach is a blended scotch brand created for an American grocery chain that cancelled the order due to Covid and left the bottler with a lot of inventory to get rid of … It’s largely 12 year-old Tullibardine, assorted other malts, and 12 year-old grain whisky. It’s baseline 40% ABV but it’s very cheap as 12 year-old blends go and…
Dovetail, poetic carpentry allusion aside, is a blend of two sourced bourbons: A 10 year-old Indiana (I assume that means MGP) bourbon finished in Dunn Vineyards Cabernet wine barrels (French Oak), and an 11 year-old Tennessee whiskey (could be Dickel, could be Nelson’s Green Brier, could be some small craft distillery…) finished in both blackstrap molasses rum casks and LBV aka Late Bottled Vintage aka sweeter port pipes. The result is bottled at cask strength of…
This 15 year-old bottling is aged in a combination of oloroso sherry casks and ex-bourbon American oak casks, which has become so common that it’s hardly worth mentioning anymore. Everyone’s doing the DoubleWood thing these days. The whisky is unfortunately bottled at the minimum legal strength of 40% ABV.
Double Oak’s approach to the industry meme of “do something different to the base whiskey so we can charge more for it” is about as simple as you can get, and yet is oddly rare in the bourbon business. They took Jim Beam, having aged it like all bourbons in new charred American white oak barrels, and they…
The “Wee Witchie” is the name of Mortlach’s small experimental pot still, and “some” of its output was included in the batch for this bottling. “Some” is one of the worst words in the English language, so we don’t know if we’re talking about a literal teaspoon, or if 30% of the vatting comes from The Wee Witchie, so it’s kind of an irrelevant piece of information…
…so in an attempt to better understand the flavors that arise when whisky is aged in Sauternes casks, I sought a bottle of actual Sauternes. I’m drinking a Château Guiraud 2010 (375ml bottle) which was something like $40, and I’m drinking it chilled. I’m noticing the aroma – particularly – has distinct notes of golden raisins (duh), rich honey, fresh apricots, dried apricots, and a not-quite-yeasty fungal aroma that’s…
Redemption is a non-distiller producer (NDP) that repackages MGP whiskey with additional aging and a thin veneer of story. Their new offering, “Sur Lee” rye whiskey, adds mash lees to the barrels during aging and uses French winemaking techniques. But is it worth the $60 price tag?
Glen Moray is a whisky distillery located in Speyside, Scotland. They produce a 12 year old single malt scotch whisky that was bottled by That Boutique-y Whisky Company and has an alcohol content of 48.5%. This review was written (partially) by an AI!
Nothing wrong with this bourbon, although I can’t say there’s anything special about it, either. “High-Rye Bourbon” is not exactly a new concept, and LDI/MGP bourbons are a dime a dozen. Ten years ago I would have complained about paying $30 for…
Getting the easy stuff out of the way: This is a single malt scotch whisky, from a single distillery on the island of Islay in Scotland. It is heavily peated like other Islay stalwarts (Ardbeg, Lagavulin, Laphroaig, Caol Ila, etc.) and should not be considered unless you know you’re ready for a face-full of smoke and weird brine flavors in your whisky. It is bottled at the impressive strength of…