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The Sazerac 18 forms, together with the Eagle Rare 17, George T Stagg, William Larue Weller and Thomas H Handy, the so-called Buffalo Trace Antique Collection. Just like the Eagle Rare and contrary to…

Stranahan is a bit special. They use four types of malt, hence making it not a bourbon, but rather a single malt. The distillery only fills about 40 barrels a week for maturation in the very hot climate…

Jim Beam Devil’s Cut is of course a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Angel’s Share, the part that evaporates during maturation. Hence what is left in the cask, according to Beam’s marketing departement…

Allow me to finish up my line-up of Americans with a single barrel from Jack Daniel’s. This barrel was bottled on 9th July 2012 at 45% ABV (or 90 proof). It sticks to the glass.The honeysweet nose shows…

Glen Els is a German Whisky distillery and to be more specific it is Hercynian Whisky. The Tawny Port I tasted is from Cask No. 143, distilled 3.6.08, bottled 16.12.11 with 45,9 % and is limited to only…

This Glen Els Ember is from the Woodsmoked series of the German distillery and comes with 45.9% ABV. Woodsmoked? Yes, this isn't very common or at leaast I never heard of this before. The whisky is…

Nose: Heavy on the sherry in a very nice way, following on with a terry's chocolate orange.Taste: Sweet & syrupy with various dried fruits jumping around in your mouth, its hard to capture them all as…

This is a sourced whiskey from LDI distillery in Indiana... although I think maybe the name of that distillery has changed recently. Sorry, I don't keep up with the whiskey news like I used to!Nose:…

21 Years in a variety of casks (of-course most notably the last 4 months in ex-Caribbean Rum) has made the Gran Reserva by Glenfiddich an interesting and complicated whisky. The nose is elegant, blowing…

On my last trip to OC, CA, I bought a bottle of JW Blue for 139.00. How could I resist? That was nearly half off what I had seen it priced everywhere else. And, I could not bring myself to open it yet…