Spirit Reviews

We love writing about spirits. While we’ve had hundreds of rums, as of March 2019 we’ve just started formally reviewing them, and you can find our catalog of rum reviews, and history about the spirit in our Rum Reviews section.

We’ve picked up the pace on whisky reviews, and have amassed a small arsenal of reviews. You can also learn more about our spirit tasting and review process. Some of our favorites recently have been from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS), so we put together a comprehensive guide to SMWS bottle numbers, because a lot of the other ones we found weren’t up to date and were missing things.

We accept Rum and Whisky samples and you can learn more about how to reach us on our contact us page.

Rum Sixty Six 12 year (left) and Rum Sixty Six 6 year (right), Foursquare Distillery
Not saccharine but also uninteresting.
Several white barns with red doors and barrels that spell out welcome
Edradour distillery, close to Edinburgh and Glasgow, wonderful whisky.
Exclusive Malts Isle of Islay (left) and Lagavulin 16 (right). Darker color on the Exclusive Malts because of the pure sherry cask.
“Port Ellen Movie Theater” - a beautiful peat-and-sherry bomb
Ice cube with sprig in glass with clear cocktail on white placemat
Classic clarified gin milk cocktail.
Two bottles of Whisky with two glasses in between and a bar behind.
Tasting Notes for Lagavulin 2018 Feis (18 year old)
Slope roof building with reflections on top of a hill
Macallan Distillery’s Six Pillars tour and tasting
Two bottles next to each other with glasses between in front of a backlit bar.
Tasting Notes for 4/506 Batch of Lagavulin Distiller’s Edition 2017
Whisky bottle next to whisky glass in front of globe and copper still
Pur Geist (Purgeist) Bavarian Hop Flavored Whisky Review
Four bottles of whisky in front of one glass of whisky
We review the classic, balanced Lagavulin 16 Whisky
Fukano (“Impossible”) 2018 Edition Review. Fukano produces aged shochu (rice based spirit with Koji mold). NAS whisky.