By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ With its booming craft scene, Tennessee Whiskey has become a growing and vibrant regional sub-category to American bourbon. To briefly review what that means, Tennessee Whiskey is in all respects bourbon, except that it is made in Tennessee and has the additional production step of filtering the new make whiskey through sugar maple charcoal prior ...
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DYC 15 Year Old 60th Anniversary Whisky Review
By Emma Briones Rating: B+ Being around for 60 years is quite a long time, even for a whisky distillery. And a huge accomplishment if we take into account that it is located in Spain. A place where, even nowadays, it is not common to distill whisky. So, to celebrate, DYC releases the oldest Spanish single malt to date: DYC ...
Read More »New Riff Winter Whiskey Bourbon Review
By Emily Mullis Rating: B- New Riff Distilling is a band of “corporate refugees” embarked on a mission to create high-quality whiskey. Sounds typical of any small distillery, but their passion for quality and ingenuity shows in their whiskey. There are lots of “specialty” whiskeys out there and most are a bit overdone with little complexity and mostly all talk. ...
Read More »Chicken Cock 15 Year Old Bourbon Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Charleston, South Carolina-based Grain & Barrel Spirits has added a middle aged, limited edition expression to their Chicken Cock whiskeys, the oldest bourbon yet for the brand. Chicken Cock was founded in 1856 in Paris, Kentucky, which today is known as the home of Hartfield & Co. and the last refuge of the blue-blooded, Bluegrass ...
Read More »Del Bac Classic Whiskey Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B When I proposed doing an interview to Hamilton Distillers co-founder Stephen Paul a few months ago, he mentioned that his whiskeys had evolved quite a bit from when The Whiskey Reviewer initially covered them in 2015. That is sometimes the case with small distillers who have been around for several years or longer; why produce a ...
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