Well, this was a treat. Early this year I heard from someone about a mysterious group called The Drop Collective that anyone could join, that was holding a lottery for a very exclusive release of a 18…

@Talexander has been known to frequent an auction or two. In January I was visiting him to conduct some whisky business, and he gifted me a number of miniatures he had procured in auctions in the past…

Written Tuesday Nov. 15, 2022We had our first snowfall today. I’m not complaining. Other cities in Canada have already been hit with Winter conditions for weeks. As recently as last week we had temp…

Aberlour A’Bunadh is one of the whiskies that drew me to this hobby in 2011, and which I continue to enjoy to this day. It is one of the sherry bombs that has endured throughout my interest in spirits…

Aberlour A’Bunadh was the first malt that won me over when I started my whisky journey in 2011. My youthful enthusiasm led me to load up on bottles, and when batch numbers exceeded my age I decided to…

I don’t have a lot of experience with Linkwood. A few years ago I bought a Cadenhead’s CS release on the recommendation of @bluenote. It is delicious (I even bought a spare), but I haven’t gotten…

Nozinan Mini and Sample Series - 80I’m a little late to this party as well (see Nozinan Mini and Sample Series - 79).When Alberta Distillers introduced us to APCS in 2019, they also released a more…

I’m a little late to the party on this one. In 2017 Dr. Don Livermore rocked the Canadian whisky world with a cask strength 12 YO version of the popular Lot 40 100% rye whisky. It was phenomenal. He…

This is my second review since getting shut down by COVID-19 in May. It’s only the third whisky I have tasted. The second was the entry level (40%ABV) 4-grain N7 from my previous review posted just…

This is my first review since getting shut down by COVID-19 in May. It’s only the second whisky I have tasted (I sipped 5 cc of a CS Wiser’s a couple last week to celebrate the return of my ability to…