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By Alex Southgate Rating: B The Ardmore is a Highland single malt and a distillery, the latter sitting at the highest point of the Northern Railway line. It’s a whisky that has always relied on rail travel to truly enable it to flourish. In fact, the distillery’s proximity to the railway line allowed founder Adam Teacher (son of the founder ...

By Richard Thomas One of the more interesting features of the American craft whiskey boom is the regional spins it has put on what had been, during the second half of the 20th Century at any rate, an industry of the Upper South. When this 21st Century phenomenon brought commercial whiskey-making to the Southwest for the first time, it incorporated ...

Buffalo Trace Distillery is releasing its winter allocation of Stagg Jr, just in time for the holidays.  This is 15th release in the series and weighs in at 131.1 proof.  Like previous versions, Stagg Jr is uncut, unfiltered, aged over eight years, and with a taste profile similar to its elder statesman, George T. Stagg. Tasting notes describe this barrel proof ...

Bardstown Bourbon Company will end 2020 by adding three new expressions to its product lineup: the second iteration of its collaboration with Calistoga-based winemaker Phifer Pavitt, and the fourth iteration of its own Fusion and Discovery Series bourbons. The Bardstown Bourbon Company Phifer Pavitt Reserve was one of the first releases from Bardstown Bourbon Company in 2019, and this is ...

Corrected December 15, 2020 By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Covington’s New Riff Distillery has carved out quite a name for themselves in recent years. They started with the excellently curated OKI series of sourced bourbon, and then wow’ed the enthusiasts and critics with their inaugural releases of bonded bourbon and rye whiskeys. They’ve continued to build on that momentum. It’s ...