By Richard Thomas Although The Whiskey Reviewer does not give out formal awards (yet), we do round-up each year with an informal set of whiskey picks. Each staff member is allowed to chose one whiskey in two categories, Best New Whiskey and Best Whiskey To Pass My Lips, the latter representing whatever the best dram that person had during the ...

The whiskey trade is surging, and no sector of it more so than Irish whiskey. Irish whiskey sales have grown by 17.5% in the United States, and recent reports have Jameson alone up by 25%. Hibernian hootch is more popular than ever, and partly because of that, labels unfamiliar to any but Irish eyes are beginning to appear in bars ...

“Blended scotch” means a blend of one or more malt whiskeys with one or more grain whiskeys, and it is scotch of this type that dominates on the shelves of bars and liquor stores everywhere. Even some of the entries on the top shelf are blended scotch, rather than vatted malt or single malt, and this type of whiskey constitutes ...