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Nose: Rich and really fantastic. Heavily on chocolate with a very dry, bourbony quality. Slight rubber and a bit of a funky red-fruit sherried quality shining through it. Faint vanilla. Some people have…

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…

I acquired a generous helping of this younger bottling of the Aberlour distillery at one of the better nearby bars in my area. (The Wooden Nickel). I was curious to see how the younger double cask sta…

Sulphurous nose. Too much sherry - quite unsubtle - blatant. Rough. Too alcoholic.

Bailie Nicol Jarvie is more colloquially known as BNJ. It is named after a character in Walter Scott's novel Rob Roy (I couldn't resist the title). It became popular with the British officers during the…

Talisker distillery is the only distillery on the Isle of Skye and was founded in 1830 by Hugh and Kenneth MacAskill, sons of the local doctor. It was rebuilt between 1880 and 1887, and was extended in…

This bottle has been in my cabinet and open for a year. Finally finishing it today, so it's definitely well breathed.Without water: Creamy nose with salt and strong but mellow peat-smoke. There's also…

I got this to tick off another distillery from my untried list. This distillery is generally just blend-fodder for Pernod,(I think they're the owners) so single-malt releases are rather rare.The nose is…

Batch 07, Sept 2010. Found a few bottles in a local store for 60.00. I wanted to try something new, and considering some decent to great reviews, thought I would give this one a shot. I did not realize…

I first encountered this bourbon at an American whisky tasting in my neck of the woods with James Cowan. The year 1792 refers to the fact that Kentucky became the 15th State of the USA that year. That…