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By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Each member of the seminal Jim Beam Small Batch Collection is now the center of its own brand line-up, and three of the four have had rye whiskeys either as limited editions or regular extensions. But of those three, I think the most appropriate to have rye whiskey attached to its brand name is Basil ...

Ireland’s Dingle Distillery has announced the U.S. launch of Samhain Single Malt Whiskey, the first expression to come from the brand’s new Wheel of the Year Series. With 10,000 bottles of Dingle Samhain Single Malt Whiskey set to be released worldwide, only 1,500 of those bottles are allocated to the U.S., making for a very special and exclusive debut. Celebrating ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: C- As the craft whiskey boom really took off in the early 2010s, many small producers were on the look out for techniques to reduce maturation time or bypass it all together. The classic was to age in small or tiny barrels. The best examples of this tailored their production process to make a better new ...

The Collaboration of Blade & Bow and Garden & Gun Has Given Bourbon Fans Ways to Raise Their Bluegrass Experience A Notch By Richard Thomas When Blade & Bow Bourbon first started their collaboration with Garden & Gun magazine, that authoritative guide to all things tasteful, upscale and Southern, it was in a standard exercise in cross-branding: the lounge at ...

Bowmore has released the two latest installments to the Bowmore Timeless Series: Bowmore Timeless 29 Year Old (introduced worldwide, slated to arrive in the US this month) and Bowmore Timeless 33 Year Old (exclusive to Global Travel Retail). The series is a celebration of time, but with a definitive appreciation as to how each moment comes to bear on the ...