By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Heaven Hill launched their Heritage Collection last year with a 17 year old bourbon, but the distillery has a habit of using their annual series to showcase the breadth and depth of what they make there (witness the variety of Parker’s Heritage over the years). So their choice for the second installment of Heritage Collection ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ I’m not a coffee drinker, but I get the attraction to mix whiskey and coffee because I share a similar interest in pouring a shot of whiskey into my pot of tea. Such a coffee combination usually takes place in a coffee-based cocktail (the famed Irish Coffee is but the best known example), but FEW ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Ever since Jim Beam took Knob Creek from its classic 9 year old to an NAS bourbon in 2016 (a move they are slated to reverse next year), I’ve thought of Baker’s as the great sleeper of Beam’s line-up, because it was the last unchanged whiskey in the seminal Jim Beam Small Batch Collection. Introduced ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Although Heaven Hill’s revamp of Old Fitzgerald Bottled in Bond meant the death of one of those brands that is a favorite among bourbon nerds while remaining largely unknown to drinkers at large, it had the benefit of bringing a premium brand based on Heaven Hill’s wheated bourbon stock that has been older than the ...

By Emma Briones On May 20, 2016, Bimber distilled its first single malt. Since then, many barrels have been filled in their west London warehouse, but since British whisky must age a minimum of three years (both British law and EU regulations stipulate this), it was those casks filled in late May those barrels that would become the first expressions ...