By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ The green label of Spain’s DYC Pure Malt represents the distillery’s only in-production single malt whiskey. Any malt whiskey coming out of DYC these days would be a single malt, because while the company owns two different plants in Segovia, the Valverde del Majano facility produces only grain whiskey. Remember that the definition of “single ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: C Whiskey-based barbecue sauces have gone from being a niche product found in distillery gift shops to a supermarket fixture, Jack Daniel’s line of barbecue sauces are a big part of why. The thing is that a barbecue sauce like the one I review here merely bears the Jack Daniel’s name, and doesn’t have even so ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: C As I’ve described in previous reviews of DYC whiskey, it is something of a standard in Spain to see cheaply priced bottles of basic DYC taped together with a 1 L bottle of Coke as a supermarket special. An ice cold DYC and Coke is both a simple cocktail and a popular refreshment during the ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- The 12 Year Old is the first step up for many a line of blended scotch, and so it is with Ballantine’s. I first looked at Ballantine’s Finest more than a year ago, where I noted that the whiskey’s popularity in Europe and Asia. What applies to the entry-level label apparently does not apply to ...

By S.D. Peters Rating: B- Whether or not you agree that the Sazerac is America’s oldest cocktail may depend on whether or not you’re from New Orleans… or work for the Sazerac Company, which has registered the Sazerac Cocktail name and trademarked the phrase “America’s Oldest Cocktail”, which you’ll find on the back of every bottle of Sazerac 6 Year ...