I wrote Part I of this series four months ago; OK I'm going to try to keep up and not give longer pauses to this series (Life: busy). Park of the 2018 Northern Border Collection Rare releases, the label…

This sample (courtesy of @paddockjudge) is from a bottle of Maker's Mark Private Select, from Liquor Locker in Hagerstown MD. Maker's Mark's Private Select program allows restaurants, bars and other…

Well, St. Patrick's Day is long past, and I didn't do my usual set of Irish whiskey reviews (sob). So I'm finally getting to one now (it will be the only one today, unfortunately). Believe me, I'm no…

Canadian Club Barley Batch Limited Edition celebrates their 160th anniversary with a blend of barley-based whisky with regular Canadian Club. The bottle has been open roughly four months.The colour is…

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the first Jura I've reviewed here. Originally licensed in 1831, the Isle of Jura distillery was leased to James Ferguson, who rebuilt it in 1875. It lay…

I happily lucked out at the LCBO lottery last year and scored a bottle of this single barrel bottled-in-bond. You can never go wrong with E.H. Taylor, amiright? Bottle code is B1704114:21K. It's been…

This blended malt from Wemyss combines single malts that were matured exclusively in oloroso sherry casks. Non-chill-filtered, only 6000 bottles were made when it was released in 2015. Thank you to Rick…

Collingwood Double Barrelled is the first release in their "Town Collection", which came out in the fall of 2017. It is primarily matured in used white oak barrels, then re-barrelled in heavily toasted…

This special treat happens to be the very first Bushmills bottled by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society exclusively for the Canadian marketplace (it's not even on the SMWS UK site). Distilled on May 22 2002…

Ironroot Republic is a microdistillery in Denison, Texas. Started by brothers Jonathan and Robert Likarish, their products (bourbon, corn whiskey, vodka and gin) are grain-to-glass and use fresh, local…