You can tell the favorites in our households by the liquid levels. This one is an exceptional dram (purchased for around $250 from a “last drops” email from SWMS of America). The bottle is one of my personal favorites from …
In the Yaesu Shopping mall in the middle of a busy train station, there sits an impressive bottle shop. It’s packed from floor to ceiling with liquors and whiskies. Like many Japanese liquor stores, Hasegawa allows you to purchase drams …
Last Thursday, before the COVID-19 crisis quarantined us all starting this week, we went to Overproof. The reservations had been long outstanding – I made them early February, so I felt obligated to go (there was a $25/pp cancellation fee …
Truth be told, we started this review a while ago. We had this alongside the previously reviewed Bruichladdich 1990/25 travel exclusive. Both drams are excellent and I’d happily guzzle either of them. The slight edge goes to the namesake …
As I mentioned in our Kavalan Manzanilla sherry cask review, my overwhelming cheapness resulted in San Francisco to Tokyo tickets that had us flying over Japan 3 hours to Taipei, Taiwan for a layover before returning the 3 hours …
The final dram of our Dalmore flight at OneUp in San Francisco (Dalmore 12 review at 7/10 here and Dalmore 15 of 5.5/10 score here) was the Dalmore 18. I had been toying with the idea of buying …
As mentioned in our Dalmore 12 review, the reddit community does not like Dalmore much. There are some good points: they’re a bit watery (and a bit pricey). But the broader market likes Dalmore; some because of the shiny …
Vancouver is fun to visit, but there is a 90% chance it will rain at some point and then one needs an indoors activity contingency plan. For us, this typically involves liquor stores. In particular, I was very keen on …