By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ February 2021 saw the first-ever major reform in Japanese Whisky law, which was rather notorious in world whisky circles for having essentially no laws. When it came to Japanese Whisky, one could count on the two giants of Suntory and Nikka doing things in keeping with international standards, out of respect for tradition and protecting ...

By Emma Briones Rating: C In 2017, Spanish distillery DYC made a move to show they can produce good quality whisky. They did so with a new range of limited editions: Maestros Destiladores. They began by releasing a 12 and a 15 year old whisky (building on their existing 10 year old single malt releases), they have just launched DYC ...

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 Douglas Fraser Rating: C+ Ireland is currently reinvigorating its whiskey industry and Boann Distillery is part of Ireland’s 21st Century distilling boom. Boann Distillery, which is paired with a brewery, has released a classic “brewstilling” limited edition. Their sister brewery, Boyne, took old Sherry hogsheads and filled them with their imperial stout. That done, these Sherry-turned-stout hogsheads were then ...

By Paer Johansson Rating: C+   Mackmyra is the oldest distillery in Sweden, the first drops distilled back in 1999. Since then, the distillery has opened four warehouses in different corners of Sweden, and has even constructed a “Whisky Village” in north of Sweden containing a new, unique distillery utilizing the power of gravity. The “Moment series” was created in ...