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Updated August 26, 2020 By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Castle & Key Distillery is known for being the revival of the neo-Gothic castle that was the Old Taylor plant, as well as being the former home of Master Distiller Marianne Eaves, Kentucky’s first woman to hold that title and something of a prodigy. However, before the distillery actually went into ...

By Andrew Graham Grade: B Last fall, Dewar’s brought to market Dewar’s Caribbean Smooth, the first in a series of what the company is calling double-aged cask finished expressions. That description itself is worth examining. Some readers will know that Dewar’s popularized the process of double-aging blended Scotch: they’d come up with a blend, let it marry in oak for ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ I look forward to new releases from Craft Barrell Spirits because they are always cask strength and consistently in the B+ category. In the uncommon event a release doesn’t receive that scoring, it is more often an A- than B. Lately the company has given me something else to look forward to, as it does ...

Scottish whisky broker and independent bottler Cask 88 have just announced the release of the third in their award-winning series of single cask whisky bottlings inspired by the legends of Scottish Folklore, a 19 Year Old Laphroaig 2001 Single Malt (70cl; 53.9% ABV; £475 RRP), finished in a first fill Château Léoville-Las Cases Bordeaux barrique. Available for general sale from ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Ever since Balcones broke certain barriers in 2009 by making a corn whiskey with blue corn, both accelerating the trend for small distillers to reach for novel grains and asserting a Tex-Mex whiskey style for the first time, I’ve been waiting for some serious work to be done in making whiskeys with heirloom Mexican corn. ...