Wemyss Malts is marking their 15th anniversary with the third release for the Wemyss Malts Cask Club, Black Gold, a single cask single malt from Bowmore distillery. Black Gold is single sherry hogshead cask of 1989 Bowmore that has matured for 30 years and bottled at a cask strength of exactly 50.0%ABV. Bowmore is the oldest distillery on Islay and ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Bardstown Bourbon Company (BBCo) has added a new expression to their periodic Collaboration Series, The Prisoner. It has much in common with the preceding release, Phifer Pavitt Reserve: it’s based on a 9 year old Tennessee-made bourbon, which has been given an extra long finish of 18 months in wine barrels. In this case, that ...

The Bardstown Bourbon Company has partnered with The Prisoner Wine Company for a collaborative bourbon finished in The Prisoner red wine barrels. Launching in January 2020, Bardstown Bourbon Company’s latest Collaboration is a 100-proof, nine-year-old Tennessee bourbon aged for 18 months in the same French Oak red wine barrels used to age the Wine Company’s flagship product, The Prisoner. “This ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ It having been five years since my first look at the cask strength version of one of the best-named whiskeys around, I decided it was time to come around again. Much has happened with the brand during that interval: the makers at Walsh Whiskey formed a partnership to build a distillery; built and opened that ...

By Randall H. Borkus Rating: B The historic James E. Pepper Distillery was making bourbon in Lexington, Kentucky until 1958, when production ceased and the brand was abandoned for over 50 years. In December 2017, the new James E. Pepper Distillery (DSP-KY-5) began distilling whiskey again in part of the old building, basing its mash bill on historic recipes and ...