By Emma Briones Rating: B Today, almost all distilleries start by learning from others. Some do it from a distance, others ask for help directly or use whiskeys from others to learn how to mix or tune. And what it does is enrich them all. To those who learn and those who teach. Some decide to use it as an ...
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DYC Doble Roble Spanish Whisky Review
By Emma Briones Rating: C In 2017, Spanish distillery DYC made a move to show they can produce good quality whisky. They did so with a new range of limited editions: Maestros Destiladores. They began by releasing a 12 and a 15 year old whisky (building on their existing 10 year old single malt releases), they have just launched DYC ...
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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 ...
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By Richard Thomas Richard Thomas, Owner-Editor I handed out a personal record of six A grades in 2020, but not a single A+, which makes both Best New Whiskey and Best To Pass My Lips hard calls to make. Frankly, my choices are easily interchangeable. Both were wonderful and both were released during 2020. Just a hair behind the two ...
Read More »DYC 12 Year Old Whisky Review
By Emma Briones Rating: B+ The Spanish distillery DYC has recently announced a new range of whiskies called “Maestros Destiladores” (Masters Distillers).” The new range will be comprised, according to DYC, of high-quality whiskies. The first release in this collection is DYC 12 Year Old Blended Whisky. First, a quick reminder about who DYC is, since they aren’t well known ...
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