World Whisky reviews

As the clock winds down on Connosr as an active site, and we prepare to ‘shift our paradigm’ to a Discord community, I tried to get in as many tasting notes as I could before I sealed my cabinet for…

As we’ve learned, the Connosr website will become a read-only archive in just over a week. That will happen during the Passover holiday, and as many of you are aware, I seal my cabinet during that time…

Neat at Prime, Imperial Hotel lobby bar (Prague.)A deep golden clear pour with a subtle greenish cast. Curious little detail: there are virtually no legs.Aroma is not too intense: custard, vanilla, pine…

Wiser’s Red Letter is a favourite of one of my whisky buddies. I and @Nosebleed hunted several bottles of this for him over the years (and my brother in law even surprised me with a bottle of the 2015…

I write this review with a heavy heart. I woke this morning, Oct. 7, 2023, to the news of perhaps the largest terrorist attack since the one on Sept. 11, 2001. With family spread throughout Israel, I…

After a slow start, the Crown Royal Noble Collection has had one of the best and most interesting string of releases in Canadian whisky - probably the most impressive since early Forty Creek - and I…

I suppose Forty Creek was so important to me in my Canadian whisky journey - kickstarting a very impressive wave of Canadian whisky interest and releases. Granted, it's looking like more of a bubble than…

This is the second release from the Spring Mill Distillery in my hometown of Guelph, Ontario. The first was the incredible bourbon-style Traditional Straight Whisky. This one promises to be more in the…

It has become a tradition for me that on Canada Day I post a review of a Canadian whisky. Last year, of course, I had no sense of taste and smell in the month leading up to Canada day. So I wanted to…

I've got quite the backlog of samples, including mystery samples, but I've been negligent as of late. If only a friend would take the time to send me some text message reminders, I'd probably get to…