By Richard Thomas Rating: B It’s been several years since the world became aware of how good Japanese whisky can be, and how the category has changed in that time. The two big names, Nikka and Suntory, have found themselves painfully pinched by the depletion of their stocks of aged and ultra-aged whisky; I’ve long said that anyone who wants ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ Although I haven’t attended a whiskey event or a gathering of enthusiasts since the launch of my most recent book, American Whiskey, in February 2020, the internet has ensured that I still hear this outdated fallacy about craft whiskey from time to time: “all craft whiskey is aged for just months in small barrels, which ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Despite not being one of the trailblazers or early entrants to the craft whiskey scene, Woodinville Whiskey has built a strong reputation among the usually skeptical, often cantankerous enthusiast community. In my opinion, that is down to three major factors. One is that by being situated in the state of Washington, they were in a ...

By Alex Southgate Rating: B The Ardmore is a Highland single malt and a distillery, the latter sitting at the highest point of the Northern Railway line. It’s a whisky that has always relied on rail travel to truly enable it to flourish. In fact, the distillery’s proximity to the railway line allowed founder Adam Teacher (son of the founder ...

Corrected December 15, 2020 By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Covington’s New Riff Distillery has carved out quite a name for themselves in recent years. They started with the excellently curated OKI series of sourced bourbon, and then wow’ed the enthusiasts and critics with their inaugural releases of bonded bourbon and rye whiskeys. They’ve continued to build on that momentum. It’s ...