American Whiskey reviews

Blanton's Straight from the Barrel is a special release by Buffalo Trace, launched in 1984 by master distiller Elmer T. Lee. It was – at the time – the first single barrel bourbon ever. By now that has…

Russell's Reserve refers to Jimmy Russell who has been master distiller at Wild Turkey for over 60 years. He son is also master distiller (the apple and the tree…) there, making Wild Turkey the only…

Six years seems young, but for an American whiskey, that is already quite well matured. This Pikesville is a straight rye whiskey, which means the main ingredient is rye, in this case upholstered with…

Malts of Scotland, the famous German independent bottler, for a while now no longer limits itself to Scotch whisky. They have travelled across the Atlantic and already bottled quite a few casks from…

A place that you would not immediately associate with whiskey is Philadelphia. Yet that is where the Cooper Spirits Company was founded in 2006. They call themselves ‘makers of rare and fine spirits’.…

On the day after Prohibition – this is 1934 – the A Smith Bowman distillery was founded on the Bowman Sunset Hill Farms. We are in Virginia. But in February 1988 the brand was taken over by drinks giant…

We are in Paris, Kentucky, where Andrew and Larissa Buchanan founded the craft distillery Hartfield & Co in 2013. For their bourbon they use 19% rye and 19% malted barley; the remaining 62% is corn. They…

Believe it or not, Hartfield & Co is the first new craft distillery in Kentucky since Prohibition. It was founded in 2013. Imagine that. This is, after all, the heart of Bourbon County. But I can imagine…

The 20 year old bourbon by Michter’s is very hard to find and if you are that lucky, it is absolutely not cheap (in 2016, it took the 10th sport in the USA’s most expensive bourbons, with Michter’s…

Michter's Distillery was already founded in 1753 and therefore one of America’s first distilleries. It changed its name along the way to Bomberger Distillery, albeit for a short while. The current bui…