The Jack Daniel Distillery has announced that Lexie Phillips has been named Assistant Distiller, making her the first woman to serve in that official capacity for the iconic Tennessee Whiskey brand. Phillips will serve as a collaborator with Jack Daniel’s Master Distiller Chris Fletcher. Phillips, who has worked in Lynchburg for more than seven years, previously was instrumental in Jack ...
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Daddy Rack Tennessee Whiskey Review
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 ...
Read More »Jacob’s Pardon 15 Year Old American Whiskey Review
By Andrew Graham Grade: A- Let’s start 2021 off with something kind of crazy: a 15 year old single barrel American whiskey that’s bottled at 141.8 proof. The folks behind Jacob’s Pardon, Palm Bay International, bring some history to the table. The duo behind the brand, president and CEO Marc Taub and his son, Jake, are a couple generations removed ...
Read More »Top Picks Of 2020
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 »Taking Tastings From A Whiskey Auction
Sampling Prime Choices From The Biggest Single Whisk(e)y Auction Lot Ever By Andrew Graham Whisky Auctioneer, a Scotland-based platform for buying and selling whisky and other spirits on the secondary market, held a private tasting October 15th call attention to the the auction of “Pat’s Whiskey Collection,” billed as the largest private gathering of bottles ever put on the block. ...
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