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Just a few Bowmore with highs and lows
Bowmore 2005/2026 (48.8%, The Whisky Agency, Made for Friends, refill sherry hogshead, 269 bottles) Bowmore 8 yo (43%, OB, Sherriff’s, Emmepi Italy, +/-1975) Bowmore 18 yo 2007/2026 (50.3%, Boogieman Whisky Society, Gentle Giant, bourbon hogshead, 90 bottles) Bowmore 18 yo 2007/2026 (54.1%, Wu Dram Clan, bourbon barrel, cask #6358) Bowmore ‘Voyage’ (56%, OB, Port Casked, 2000)
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Aberlour Triple Cask
Aberlour Triple Cask has been around for a while, but we've never had it before. It was originally for the French market. The rest of the world got a Double Cask, or so it seems.The whisky has been matured in a combination of bourbon barrels, bourbon hogsheads and (European oak) oloroso sherry casks. I'm not sure I would count bourbon barrels and hogsheads as two separate casks...
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Meet The Maker: Oisin Mulcahy, Distiller & Blender
Watch replay below What if the whiskeys already sitting on your shelf could become the ingredients for something entirely new? On June 2nd at 7pm EST, Stories & Sips welcomes Irish whiskey blender and distiller Oisín Mulcahy (formerly of Dingle, Killarney and Clonakilty Distilleries) for a special live Meet The Maker event […] The post Meet The Maker: Oisin Mulcahy, Distiller & Blender appeared first on Stories & Sips Whiskey Club .
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Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Batch A117
Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Batch A117 63.5% ABV $60 (original retail) Website What the Distillery Says To sip Barrel Proof is to experience Bourbon in its purest form: uncut, straight from the barrel, and without chill filtering. Each bottle is hand labeled with its unique proof and batch number; but the […] The post Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Batch A117 first appeared on Whisk(e)y Apostle: Proselytizing the way of the malt .
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Best Bourbons Under $75: The Bottles Actually Worth the Price Jump
There’s a gap between the under-$50 shelf and the under-$100 shelf that most buying guides skip over. The $50–$75 range is where a lot of genuinely interesting bourbon lives: older age statements, higher proofs, craft distilleries with something real to say. But it’s also where the hype tax kicks in and plenty of bottles charge […] The post Best Bourbons Under $75: The Bottles Actually Worth the Price Jump appeared first on Bourbon Inspector .
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Skeeter’s Nootkatone Flavored Whiskey, Tamworth Distilling
I’d like to thank Tamworth Distilling and their PR partners for providing this sample with no strings attached. As we are just coming out of Memorial Day weekend, a weekend full of dusty work in the garden, we are going a little lighter today than normal. I just didn’t have a lot of time to do the tasting, research, and writing involved in doing a full-fledged review. Plus, with noses full of dust and dirt, we couldn’t really breathe over the weekend. So we decided to wait a few days and look at a cocktail ingredient that showed up on our doorstep recently instead. This is a fun one. And has been since the PR email landed in my inbox. See, this is another release from Tamworth Distilling . We know Tamworth from the absolutely divine 7-year-old Apple Brandy that we covered back in March. But Tamworth makes a few…less traditional spirits as well. After all, it is the home of a crab-flavored whiskey ; a venison-flavored whiskey ; a spruce-, plum- and roast goose-flavored whiskey ; a whisk
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Rebel Single Barrel (86215) Bourbon – Selected by Kyle Busch Review
Distillery: Lux Row Distillers – Bardstown, Kentucky Proof: 108.0 (54.0% ABV) Age: Four Years Mashbill: 68% Corn, 20% Wheat, 12% Malted Barley MSRP: $40 A Single Barrel That Outperforms Its Age Rebel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Single Barrel brings a focused bottle of what Lux Row can do when its wheated bourbon is pushed into single barrel […] The post Rebel Single Barrel (86215) Bourbon – Selected by Kyle Busch Review appeared first on Bourbon Inspector .
podcast· 29:57Teresa Heuzenroeder - Jansz (Tasmania)
Simon Nash and Jill Upton speak with Teresa about here role as head winemaker for Jansz and the quality wines coming out of Tasmania. @thewineshowaustralia @jansztasmania
podcast· 35:32Loic Avril - Society Rstaurant - Wine list of the Year
Loic Avril speaks with Jill Upton and Simon Nash about the recent award for Society restaurant and how he oversees the wine lists for the entire Lucas Collective group. @thewineshowaustralia @societyrestaurant @lucascollective
podcast· 22:12Corinna Wright - Olivers Taranga (McLaren Vale)
Simon Nash and Jill Upton speak with Corinna Wright one of our favourite regular guests. The Queen of Fiano chats about Fiano day and how people are really enjoying the varietal especially out of McLaren Vale. @thewineshowaustralia @oliverstaranga
podcast· 40:08Good Life Show Oct 17, 2026
This week Guy chats with Susi Gott Séguret about her latest book “Adirondack Appetite – 150 recipes for Cabin, Camp & Beyond.” This is Susi’s 4th appearance on The Good Life!
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Some Japanese malts, completely at random and all over the place
Yamazaki 18 yo ‘Mizunara 2025 Release’ (48%, OB) Mars Tsunuki 2021/2025 (58%, OB for AF Trade & Tiffany’s New York Bar, PX sherry hogshead, cask #T2378, 259 bottles) Chichibu Distillery II (55.5%, OB, bourbon, 2025) Shindo ‘Experimental 02’ (48%, OB, 2026) Shindo 2022/2025 (62%, OB, for AF Trade, Dram Good Stuff & Courser of Woodland, Hong Kong, Mizunara, cask #10255) Sakurao 2020/2026 (60%, OB, for Hong Kong and Macau, first fill Marsala, cask #7158, 253 bottles) Sakurao 2021/2025 (62%, OB, for Bar Buonasera HK, 1st fill bourbon barrel, cask #6147, 207 bottles) Miyagikyo 10 yo (45%, OB, for France, 2025)
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Bushmills / Cooley / Lochindaal (The Roots)
We're back with a selection from The Roots . There's another Cooley 2001 (similar to the ones we tried late 2025), a peated Bruichladdich 2010 and something that never goes by unnoticed: Bushmills 1991 .
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Nashville Barrel Company “Plomo” Shelf Clear Society Pick Scoresheet & Review
Nashville Barrel Company (NBC) has become something of a haven for whiskey enthusiasts. Almost from the get-go, this Tennessee-based non-distilling producer (NDP) made a name for itself with some stellar rye whiskey releases before expanding to bourbons and even Canadian whisky. Much of the acclaim behind NBC seems to stem from the team’s penchant for […]
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Bardstown Bourbon Co. Distillery Reserve Mars Blend of Bourbon and Single Malt Japanese Whisky Bridges Tradition and Breaks New Ground
May 26, 2026 (Bardstown, KY.) — Instead of leaving annual volume loss to the angels, Bardstown Bourbon Company has found a way to fill the empty space in its latest Distillery Reserve. Distillery Reserve Mars Single Malt Japanese Blend, a pioneering release that bridges Kentucky bourbon and Japanese whisky traditions in an entirely new way, is available in extremely limited quantities beginning May 29, 2026. Developed in collaboration with Japan’s Mars distilleries, this limited release...
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Two young Glen Grant
Glen Grant 15 yo (50%, OB, bourbon, +/-2026) Glen Grant 8 yo (100°proof, Gordon & MacPhail, 75.7cl, 1970s)
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Glenfarclas 2015 (Spirit of Speyside)
A few weeks ago German reader Sven contacted me about a new Glenfarclas 2015 bottled for the Spirit of Speyside Festival. He asked me about the definition of a Matusalem cask : is this simply a brand name or also related to the size of the cask?Matusalem is a brand of sherry produced by González Byass. Until 2012 it could be called Amoroso or sweet Oloroso (with 25% PX added to it), but nowadays it's technically a Cream sherry. They use a series of biblical names for their oldest wines — Noé, Apóstoles, and Matusalem. All of them are aged well beyond 30 years in a solera system. While common at Dalmore for instance, the cask came to Glenfarclas as a second fill through a broker. Their normal supplier is José y Miguel Martin.The question about the size of the cask is also interesting. Note that Glefarclas released 803 bottles which equals around 562 litres. Most distilleries claim that a sherry butt only contains around 500 litres. It all depends what you call a 'standard butt'.
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Buffalo Trace Brings Back Two Iconic Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. Bourbons: Four Grain and Cured Oak
Buffalo Trace Distillery reintroduces Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. Four Grain and Cured Oak Bourbons, two 100-proof, 10-year-old limited releases returning in 2026 with Four Grain becoming an annual limited release and Cured Oak returning as a rare offering. The post Buffalo Trace Brings Back Two Iconic Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr. Bourbons: Four Grain and Cured Oak first appeared on BourbonBlog .
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Bourbon & Cigars Masters Series Co-Hosted by Tom Fischer and Sean Williams Now Airing on the Wine, Watches & Whiskey Channel
Wine, Watches & Whiskey Channel premieres the first-of-its-kind Bourbon & Cigars Masters Series with bourbon expert Tom Fischer and Cohiba’s Sean Williams, available to stream on Roku, Fire TV, and STIRR. The post Bourbon & Cigars Masters Series Co-Hosted by Tom Fischer and Sean Williams Now Airing on the Wine, Watches & Whiskey Channel first appeared on BourbonBlog .
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Jack Daniel's 14 Year Tennessee Whiskey Batch 2 Review: Repeated Greatness or Something New?
“Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you.” –Zig Ziglar, See You at the Top Few distilleries can consistently put out double-digit age statements. Since September 2021, with the introduction of batch 1 of the 10 year expression, Jack Daniel Distillery has been doing just that. Now accompanied by a revered 12 year and 14 year expression, the ultra-aged Tennessee whiskey producer from little old Lynchburg...
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holyrood embra (2025, OB, 43.6%)
Il Royal Mile, a Edimburgo, è la strada più storica e pittoresca della città vecchia, quella che parte dal Castello e arriva ai piedi dell’Arthur Seat, dove si trovano il Parlamento scozzese e Holyroodhouse Palace, la residenza locale della famiglia reale. Poche centinaia di metri più a sud, sempre alle pendici della collinetta che sovrasta… Continue reading →
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videoBirds, berries, and the first taste of wine
Kathleen Burk on the legendary story of how humans may have first discovered fermentation. #WinePodcast #KathleenBurk #WineHistory #Shorts
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An incredible Glendronach duo
Glendronach 21 yo ‘2025 Edition’ (48%, OB, sherry cask matured) Glendronach 56 yo 1968/2025 ‘Bicentennial’ (44.9%, OB for Glendronach’s Bicentenary, sherry, 200 bottles, 2026)
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North British 1991 (Thompson Bros for The Whisky Exchange)
Some time ago we had a Glen Scotia 2015 bottled by the Thompson Brothers for The Whisky Exchange . Today we're having a similar release, a single grain whisky from North British distillery. This 1991 vintage comes at merely 40.1% ABV.
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