Shelter Point Farm & Distillery was established in 2011 on Vancouver Island in BC and is a true "field to flask" operation, using traditional Scottish distilling methods to make vodka, gin, liqueur and…

So back in May, the first four Game of Thrones malts showed up at the LCBO (Cardhu, Lagavulin, Dalwhinnie and Glendullan) in fair enough quantities that I was able to pick up two of each without too much…

See what I did there? There is a doc on Netflix called Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese. If you are a big Dylan fan like myself, you'll enjoy it; if not, you'll feel like…

This is a new release, sourced I suspect from George Dickel distillery (based on the nose and palate of the whiskey, not from any actual info I'm privy to). Nathan "Nearest" Green was a former slave of…

This single barrel is 19-04135, from rick R-16 and was bottled on June 18 2019.The colour is a dark amber. On the nose we have massive layers of oak, featuring dark chocolate, nougat and cinnamon, as…

This new bottling of Jack Daniel's goes back to the design of the early 1900s, with a green label and lots of old-tyme fonts. The liquid, though upped to 43% from the standard 40%, isn't meant to repl…

I picked up this old bottling at auction (distilled the year of my birth!) Let's see how it compares to the current bottling.The colour is a pale gold. On the nose a light caramel with a wisp of wood…

I purchased this one at an LCBO/Waddington's auction - I believe it was bottled in the 1970s / 1980s. Dewar's Ne Plus Ultra expression has usually been much older (I believe 30 years?) but this one is…

I was surprised to find I've never reviewed a GKS before (how is that possible?) This expression is Compass Box's stab at creating blends in the way they did in the 19th Century (what a research project…

This whisky may seem a bit anti-climactic, since earlier today I looked at Lot 40 CS 11yo and CC41. But this one is interesting - a 375ml of Gibson's Sterling I bought at auction (with a 1971 Gibson's…