Nose: Perfumed gentle Sherry wine is prominent. There is also sweet orange, a floral bouquet, and a touch of honey.Taste: Big flavour, with the sweet sherry immediately apparent. This whisky is quite…

Pikesville, Maryland, is a close suburb of Baltimore and the geographical center of Baltimore's Jewish Community. Prior to Prohibition Maryland had dozens of rye whiskey distilleries which subsequently…

This review is of the fall 2010 5th release of the Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Rye Whiskey, one of the five whiskeys in the Sazerac Antiquities Collection, together with Eagle Rare 17 yo Bourbon, George T…

Even though I only live 600 miles from Kentucky it took me about 2 years to get myself a taste of Ancient Ancient Age 10 yr old. I had read about it from ga-ga bourbon fans on bourbonenthusiast.com. I…

The Van Winkle bourbon label is one of only five labels of bourbons using wheat instead of rye in the mashbill as the "flavoring grain". The others are Weller, Maker's Mark, Old Fitzgerald, and Rebel…

Fighting Cock 103 proof 6 yr old bourbon is distributed by Heaven Hill. It is a high rye content mashbill-- my estimate 27% rye. Before I first tasted this one I wasn't sure if this was a serious brand…

Elmer T. Lee, now 90 years old, is a 50 year experienced Master Distiller Emeritus at the Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky. He is said to have personally selected the barrels from which…

Intro: This review is of a bottle released in 2008. Old Overholt is an old Western Pennsylvania brand of Rye Whiskey which went under during Prohibition, only to be later revived in Kentucky as a Beam…

Intro: Eagle Rare 17 yr old Bourbon is one of the five bottlings in the Sazerac Antiquities Collection, together with George T. Stagg Bourbon, William Larue Weller Bourbon, Sazerac 18 yr old Rye, and…

I had been a lover of rye whiskeys for quite awhile before I recently tried the (ri)1. I was very much looking forward to it. As always, I sampled this neat. Nose: Very little nose. Maybe the faintest…