By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ When it comes to the Old Pulteney core line-up, the 18 Year Old is pretty near the top. Beyond it is only the 25 Year Old, an expression that crosses out of the world on middle-aged Scotch Whisky and into the territory of the ultra-aged. That said, it’s a relatively new expression, part of an ...

By Michael Cervin Rating: B Scotland’s Speyburn Distillery opened their doors in mid December 1897 and from then on was a fairly quiet distillery, just going about their business. But over the last two decades they have expanded production, most notably to the US. Their water source is called the Granty Burn, actually a tributary of the River Spey, for which ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Since Bardstown Bourbon Company had not just a working distillery, but actually a rather large working distillery, in operation prior to launching their own brands, they had a greater range of choices available to them than most newcomers to the whiskey business. They could have chosen to release a young, but entirely in-house product, but ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A- The ongoing Parker’s Heritage Collection is known for its interesting and aged spins on whiskeys. Even if half the releases thus far have been relatively normal bourbons (especially by limited edition standards), the other half has included some of the oldest bourbons of their class; the oldest wheat whiskey released in modern times; and a ...

By Randall H. Borkus Rating A- I recently had the good fortune to spend time at Jim Beam Distillery in Clermont Kentucky with some special people, where we met with Freddie Noe and were introduced to an exciting 2019 release of “Little Book Chapter 3: The Road Home” (Recipe 051). Little Book Chapter 3 is the first Kentucky Straight Bourbon ...