Whiskey Reviews

Bardstown Bourbon Company Discovery Series #1 Bourbon Review

BBCo Discovery #1 Bourbon

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 ...

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Parker’s Heritage Heavy Char Rye Whiskey Review (2019)

Parker's Heritage Heavy Char Rye Whiskey

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 ...

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Uncle Nearest 1884 Small Batch Whiskey Review

Uncle Nearest 1884 Small Batch Whiskey

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Uncle Nearest is named for one Nathan “Nearest” Green, a slave emancipated by the Civil War who is, at present, the first documented African-American distiller. He became the focus of some media buzz a couple of years ago, when research connected Green during the 1850s, when Jack Daniel was just a boy and doing odd ...

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