Cocktails to Make with Cognac
What cocktails should you make with cognac? These are our top picks.
Author: Sylvia L
Blood & More Blood
One of the most famous scotch cocktails is the Blood and Sand. But to be quite honest, I’ve always found it saccharine and gross: orange juice and herring cherry liqueur are not my favorite ingredients. I’ve tried making boozy versions …
Review #45: ASW Resurgens Rye
As we mentioned in our previous post on ASW’s Fiddler Unison Bourbon (batch 4), we visited the gorgeous ASW tasting room on our recent trip to Atlanta, Georgia. To recap, the distillery is new (their first release was a white …
Review #41: Port Charlotte MC:01 Marsala Cask
This is the third review of our 4-bottle Port Charlotte vertical tasting with a variety of cask maturations. The first review was the standard expression in ex-bourbon barrels, the second was a cognac cask, and the remaining review is …
Review #40: Port Charlotte 2007 CC:01 Cognac Cask
This is the second review of our 4-bottle Port Charlotte vertical tasting with a variety of cask maturations. The first review was the standard expression in ex-bourbon barrels and the remaining reviews are a Sherry cask and a Marsala cask. …
Review #38: Port Charlotte Scottish Barley Heavily Peated 2007
Our trip to the Bruichladdich distillery ended with the acquisition of our prized possession: a Valinch distillery-exclusive 500 ml bottle of Sherry cask Port Charlotte. It is easily Michael’s favorite bottle and within my top 5. With growing alarm every …
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Review #37: 2bar Spirits Bourbon
We showed up to this distillery soaking wet, after running through the Seattle rain from Westland Distillery. 2bar didn’t look very far on the map, but in the rain, it felt like miles. We got there as it was closing …
Review #36: Old Malt Cask – Ben Nevis 21
I can't put my finger on what went wrong. But something went terribly wrong and the distillery sold off the cask.
Review #35: Hepburn’s Choice John Maccrae 26 Year (Teaspooned Balvenie)
This was our first teaspooned cask purchase. Teaspooning is a common practice for many distilleries to change a single malt to a “blended” malt by adding a small amount of whisky (even just a teaspoon!) from another distillery to a …