Big American Malt and Rye Whiskey Releases To Expect This Fall By Richard Thomas Autumn is the most anticipated time of year in American whiskey because it is when the new batch from the hottest name in bourbon, Pappy Van Winkle, comes out. Marching along behind the Pappy Fever are a host of other important whiskeys, but not all of ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A- While helping me with European oak in Monday’s feature on types of whiskey wood, New Midleton’s Master of Maturation Kevin O’Gorman brought the latest Green Spot single pot still whiskey, this one using a Bordeaux wine cask finish, into the conversation. Midleton only recently embraced the idea of putting finishes (secondary maturation) onto their whiskeys, ...

Exploring The Types Of Whiskey Oak By Richard Thomas Whenever the subject of why a given whiskey tastes the way it does arises, my favorite statistic is that, depending on who made it, barrel aging contributes between 40 and 80% of the flavor. Barrel aging itself breaks down into several factors, but the oak used in making that barrel, cask, ...

By Julia Ritz Toffoli I never went to summer camp when I was a kid. I occasionally went camping (very rustically, as my dad thought that carving our own cutlery out of sticks, and other such activities quite unnecessary in the modern era, would “build character”), but I never had the classic, crafting, canoeing, capture-the-flagging, whispering-secrets-to-your-bunkmate after lights out, overnight ...

By Elizabeth Emmons Rating: A- Wild Turkey Master’s Keep celebrates the first release for Eddie Russell in his new, fully official role as Master Distiller, the son of famed Wild Turkey master distiller Jimmy Russell. Eddie, who has over 35 years’ experience and who is the fourth generation of Russell to work at Wild Turkey’s Austin Nichols distillery, succeeded his ...