By Richard Thomas Rating: A- When I lifted the straps securing the heavy case to the pedestal — yes, that is the kind of packaging the bottle had — I found myself thinking “wow, it really has been seven years with Boss Hog?” Yet our deputy editor Kurt Maitland reviewed the first installment back in 2013, that originator being a ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A Given that Angel’s Envy built its house on being the folks who finish Kentucky bourbon in Port wine casks, for some years observers were asking when they would introduce a Sherry cask finished bourbon. Once that was done, most of those same observers consolidated their wish list on arguably the rarest of all the whisky ...

By Paer Johansson Rating: B+ All right, so we have all heard of and experienced that different factors affect the taste of whisky such as the fermentation time, the type of yeast used, the length of the middle-cut and of course the cask the whisky is matured in. We also know that different casks can attribute different flavors to the ...

By Andrew Graham Rating: B I tend to start with a distiller’s most basic, down-market whiskey. I figure if I don’t like a distiller’s entry-level dram, then I’m probably not going to love its more scarce bottlings. So Forager’s Keep, the first single malt Scotch expression from Diageo’s Orphan Barrel series, isn’t something I would typically sit down and drink, ...

By Douglas Fraser Rating: A- Glendronach is one of the first licensed distilleries in Scotland and, as of 2016, is owned by Brown-Forman Corporation. At the beginning of November, Glendronach released a pair of sherried limited edition whiskies that lives true to the Highland single malt style. Glendronach’s Master Vintage 1993 and Cask Strength Batch 8 bottlings are an illustration ...