All Whisky reviews

This was my first scotch out of the bottle. Despite that, it was a good learning experience.Nose is a little confusing: Vanilla undertones, with the alcohol over powering more of the floral tone.Taste…

Clontarf is the name of the battle fought near Dublin in the year 1014 in which the forces of Irish King Brian Boru defeated the forces of his rebellious rival king Mael Morda Mac Murchada of Leinster…

Clontarf Classic Blend is aged in bourbon barrels. There is no age statement on the bottle. Jim Murray reports that Clontarf Classic Blend was originally distilled at Cooley Distillery, but is more…

Clear Creek Distillery in Portland Oregon has for fourteen years been making an Oregon version of an Islay whisky, using peat-malted Scottish barley. This review is of batch # WO 9-01, which was bottled…

Having tasted my first Bowmore 12 year at brunch last week, I decided that it would be my next bottle purchase. I am now enjoying a glass on a miserable, wet Saturday afternoon. Every bit as good as my…

William Larue Weller is one of the five whiskeys released each fall in the Sazerac Antiquities Collection. It is a bourbon containing wheat in the mashbill instead of rye, together with the mandatory 51%…

George T Stagg is a rye formula bourbon from the Sazerac Antiquities Collection. It is released once per year in the fall. The whiskey is 15 years old and released at barrel proofNose: oak, maple sugar…

This is cask strength "Single cask maturation in Spanish Oloroso Sherry Butts" whisky, whatever that means, exactly. No cask numbering is offered on the bottle or on the tube. This is a review of batch…

High West Distillery in Park City, Utah, is the first distillery to be licensed in Utah since Prohibition. The High West distillery products have not yet aged sufficiently to be commercially marketed.…

Nose: citrus, vanilla, very light smoke, floral, almonds, oak, heather. With some water added: more floral notes, rose leaves, orange dry. Palate: Woody, citrus, pine, light bodied, very dry finish,…