By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ With nearly everything closed on Monday and Tuesday, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, I was stuck with some strolling in a local nature park (which is always open from dawn to dusk), writing and catching up on Vikings to occupy myself between family engagements. And what better to pair with Ivar the Boneless’s psychopathy than ...

By Richard Thomas Richard Thomas, Owner-Editor Best New Whiskey, Heaven Hill 27 Year Old Bourbon: This survivor of the greatest American distillery disaster of modern times, the 1996 Heaven Hill fire, is more than just a magnificent pour of ultra aged bourbon. It also somehow got to the grand old age of 27 years, ancient in bourbon terms, without becoming ...

By Emma Briones Rating: B- There is a new whisky in Compass Box’s core range. It is called The Story of The Spaniard and, you guessed right, it has a Spanish accent. This new whisky was born from John Glaser’s experience in Spain a long time ago, when the Compass Box founder and whisky-maker traveled around the south of Spain, ...

Endorsing the strong relationship between Glen Moray Single Malt Whisky and Edinburgh Rugby, Glen Moray is releasing the exclusive Edinburgh Rugby Single Cask Private Edition Whisky in time for Christmas. Edinburgh Rugby teammates John Barclay, Scotland Rugby Captain and Damien Hoyland, visited the Glen Moray Distillery in Elgin, Speyside and hand-picked the casks that were used to produce the limited ...

Port Askaig, the brand based on Coal Ila single malt, has unveiled a 33 year old single cask whisky. Distilled in 1984, the lone cask behind this release has yielded just 115 bottles. Unsurprisingly, a quite aged bottling of Islay whisky isn’t priced cheaply: a bottle of Port Askaig 33 Year Old will set you back $800.