By Richard Thomas Rating: B- The next step, after The Original reviewed yesterday, in the new Pearse line of Irish Whiskeys is Distiller’s Choice. As the label says, this blend draws on a stock of 7 different malt and grain whiskeys. Those choices range in age from three to nine years, and mostly draw on whiskeys aged in ex-bourbon barrels, ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- One perk of living in Lexington, Kentucky is that it’s the hometown for Alltech, parent company of a clutch of brewing and distilling companies. Now that clutch includes Alltech founder Pearse Lyons’ native Ireland, with the opening of their new distillery in Dublin this past September. Following a familiar and thoroughly tested path, they aren’t ...

By Richard Thomas Everything turns green and Gaelic again this week, as St. Patrick’s Day 2018 is upon us. The combination of winter-cusping-on-springtime weather and the Hibernian holiday make it an ideal time to crack open a bottle of Irish Whiskey, and there is no better way to mark the occasion by trying something new. These ten whiskeys, grouped by ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Exclusive Malts is a line of sourced single malts selected and bottled by David Stirk’s Creative Whisky Co., and if you see an example in the United States, it was imported by ImPex Beverages. In this instance, the bottling is of a Dailuaine that was distilled in 2007 and aged for 10 years in a ...

According to the AP, the Attorney General of Tennessee, Herbert Slatery, has announced his official opinion that barrels of whiskey are not exempt from the state’s personal property tax. This comes as Brown-Forman, parent company of Jack Daniel’s, and other distillers in the Volunteer State are pushing for a new law that would make barrels formally exempt from taxation. This ...