By Richard Thomas The 2020 Holiday Season has a quite different vibe to it that years past, due in large part to the covid-19 pandemic. With infection numbers spiking around the world, but nowhere worse than in (what is still Donald Trump’s) America, people are looking at the coming of winter and the end of patio and sidewalk drinking and ...

By Richard Thomas No news sells like bad news, so it was a good news day for the doom-singers when Knob Creek dropped its age statement in 2016. They crowed “I told ya so,” and pointed even more forcefully to an ever grimmer future. But then an interesting thing happened. Earlier this year, Knob Creek brought back the 9 year ...

Ranking The Blood Oath Bourbons, Pact 1 To 6 By Richard Thomas Not all of the annual, limited edition whiskey series have been around for most of the current century, ala Old Forester or Buffalo Trace Antique Collection. In fact, most of them are less than a decade old, which makes tracking the entire arc of these pricey, one-time only ...

By Richard Thomas An often heard complain from American whiskey enthusiasts is that their good stuff keeps getting scarcer and pricier, and that complaint isn’t without justification. Although the recommended retail prices often remain reasonable, low or (in the case of certain Buffalo Trace offerings; $40 for W.L. Weller 12 Year Old?) absurdly low, the market value for buying most ...

Calling On The Preservationist Of Old Dominion Bourbon By Douglas Fraser Located in Fredericksburg, Virginia is an institution that carries on a pre-Prohibition tradition. It’s a survivor of the whiskey bust of the 1970s, one of just two whiskey-making distilleries outside Kentucky and Tennessee that made it into the modern era. That distillery is A. Smith Bowman, which stood for ...