By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ With its booming craft scene, Tennessee Whiskey has become a growing and vibrant regional sub-category to American bourbon. To briefly review what that means, Tennessee Whiskey is in all respects bourbon, except that it is made in Tennessee and has the additional production step of filtering the new make whiskey through sugar maple charcoal prior ...

By Andrew Graham Rating: B+ If one were trying to make a case in favor of drinking young bourbon, then one of the first expert witnesses called should probably be the folks at Treaty Oak. The Dripping Springs, Texas-based distillery produces two young, relatively high ABV bourbons: Ghost Hill bourbon, a wheated bourbon of 57% corn, 32% wheat, and 11% ...

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 Andrew Graham Rating: C- Connacht Whiskey Distillery, located on the west coast of Ireland, has an intriguing story, and is an active participant in today’s Irish whiskey revival. Additionally, its master distiller, Robert Cassell, who also has New Liberty Distillery (see yesterday’s review of the Kinsey 10 Year Old American Whiskey for his blending handiwork) and Philadelphia Distilling on ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Heaven Hill chose to kick off 2020 in interesting fashion, with a brand extension of Elijah Craig that carried the line in an entirely new direction: to rye whiskey. My sample bottle was accompanied by a small loaf of bread, made because Heaven Hill’s master distiller Conor O’Driscoll is quite a baker and baking a ...