This continues our series of whisky reviews that we wrote while touring some of the best scotch bars we have ever been to. The bar in question is the magical scotch treasure trove of Campbelltoun Loch, which is cluttered to …
I love Cadenhead. It was the first place I stopped off in England. I not only made a purposeful detour on my way to a business trip in Netherlands (there was no other reason for me to be in London), …
It’s always fun to try interesting cask finished rums, although with the exception of Foursquare, I can’t say that I’ve been a huge fan of the unusual cask maturation. The Angostura No. 1 sounded excellent – I love Oloroso Sherry …
As mentioned in Review #56 (Laphroaig 2011 Oloroso Sherry Cask from the distillery), we are now siphoning off the distillery miniatures that we bottled at the end of our Distillers Wares tour. I’m not usually a souvenir type of …
We have been on a (very slow) quest to hit 300 rums each. We talked to the couple (actually in the picture below) that are about to embark on a rum sojourn next month, and they are going to Brazil …
Back during our 2018 Thanksgiving break (end of November for non-Americans), we went to Islay in Scotland and visited the holy grounds of Laphroaig Distillery (article here). The Distillers Wares tour culminated in our favorite part: drinking straight …
We’re always on the hunt for difficult-to-procure bottles, but the Bowmore 18 is broadly available, if a little expensive. But to christian a new office, we needed a bottle and it was hard to pass up an opportunity to get …
While it is certainly less expensive to make cocktails or drink the whisky we have acquired, sometimes it’s fun to go out on the town and grab some cocktails while eavesdropping on your neighbors’ conversations. We have been eyeing San …
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 …