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)
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 ...
Read More »Uncle Nearest 1884 Small Batch Whiskey Review
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 ...
Read More »Tyrconnell 16 Year Old Irish Single Malt Whiskey Review
By Andrew Graham Grade: A- Back in March, my wife and I had the pleasure of attending an Irish whiskey tasting at the Irish Consulate in New York City. I enjoyed casually strolling into the lobby of a giant filing cabinet for bankers and lawyers on Park Avenue in Manhattan as the 9-to-5ers fled their offices to either hit up ...
Read More »Little Book Chapter 3 “The Road Home” Bourbon Review
By Randall H. Borkus Rating A- I recently had the good fortune to spend time at Jim Beam Distillery in Clermont Kentucky with some special people, where we met with Freddie Noe and were introduced to an exciting 2019 release of “Little Book Chapter 3: The Road Home” (Recipe 051). Little Book Chapter 3 is the first Kentucky Straight Bourbon ...
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