Yes, I know it's July 12 - eight days after Independence Day. But hey, whaddya want? It's been a busy time: work is nuts, my girlfriend and her four-year-old are staying with me right now, and generally…

This bottle was an entirely accidental find at Premier Wines & Liquors in Buffalo. We walked into the store and there, for no reason, were eleven bottles of this just sitting there for the taking. After…

Crisp clean air, great films, all night parties and exhaustion: these are some of the highlights of the Sundance Film Festival, which takes place every January in Park City, Utah. But one of the highl…

This is a fitting finale to my "Happy Canada Day" series, an unusual Canadian whisky that is impossible to find in my home province of Ontario. This bottling was produced as a celebration of a nine year…

Did you know that Nova Scotia's Glenora Distillery is North America's first malt whisky distillery? Betcha didn't! Production began in June 1990......then stopped weeks later due to lack of funds. Oops…

I know, I know - this is getting monotonous! But it's not my fault that Canada Day and Independence Day are three days apart. So now I gotta do a bunch of American whiskeys. Well, it's a hard knock life…

Pike Creek is a new-ish product, having come out only a couple of years ago, from Corby Distilleries. While John Hall and Forty Creek gets all the awards, attention and ink, Corby has quietly been rel…

I had to take a couple of days off my Canada series, as we went up to a Bobcaygeon cottage for Canada Day weekend (with some Forty Creek Copper Pot Reserve)! But today I look at another Forty Creek…

The story of this whisky is similar to the story told in my review "Happy Canada Day Part I", discussing Potter 1985 14 Year Old Single Bourbon Cask, Cask Strength 100% Indian Corn, bottled by Cadenhe…

With Canada Day approaching, what better time is there than now to go through a boatload of Canadian whiskies. Somehow, I've ended up with a few that I hadn't tried before. Lucky me!This particular…