World Whisky reviews

Today is looking like a quiet Canada Day Sunday - Pam has gone back to bed and Maggie is at her mom's, so I'm going to review a couple of Canadians before I properly start my day (which includes hitting…

We are experience a severe heat alert here in Toronto. I’ve been quenching my thirst with my favourite summer long drink, President’s Choice diet tonic water, lime, and ice, all day. When I went to…

This is one of the 2017 Northern Border Collection releases. Composed of corn, rye, and wheat whisky, it was aged for 17 years it is bottled at 45%. When I tried this at Spirit of Toronto in May 2017…

I’m not actually sure when I bought this. I think probably in late 2014 but possibly in 2015, and opened shortly after. It may have been an article in the Globe and Mail by Beppi Crosariol that insp…

I was at the Dublin airport last week, and they had amrut peated CS - I did my due diligence and took the bottles out of the cases and discovered they had two batches on the shelves - batch 28 (bott. Jan…

I went out and got this whisky after @Nozinan wouldn't stop talking about it. He was right. Batch 12 was awesome. Oddly, I was surprised that it wasn't more peaty - but I'm an Islay lover, so my bench…

This is an abbreviated version of an upcoming blog postBlended malt scotch whisky is an interesting case study. Blended malt, a mix of different single malt scotches, supposedly allows for greater fle…

Back in college, doing shots of Crown was a big deal. And then I grew up. I haven't had Crown in probably 20+ years, but decided to try it the other night at dinner with my wife. I got a generous pour…

The instructions I was given on this mission indicated I should consume Danfields 21 first, Wiser's 35 next and should finish with a cryptically labelled bearing only the following code 323521. Is this…

Alright, so I'm prepping for Spirit of Toronto and a dapper guy in a blazer hands me a box with my name on it and then scribbles a few notes with instructions to follow, I'm like shit...cue the Lalo…