By Richard Thomas Rating: A- The latest super premium offering from WhistlePig delves into the realm of using malted rye in the mash bill and takes into ultra aged territory. Malted rye whiskey is not new to keen observers of the craft sector, where even some 100% malted ryes exist. However, most of these malted rye whiskeys are youthful, only ...

By Emma Briones Rating: A- What do you do when you have found the perfect cask, your dream dram? How do you find something capable of competing with that extraordinary cask? Of course, you must go farther. To do so, Irish Distillers Master Blender Billy Leighton, in collaboration with Blender Dave McCabe, have worked together to create Redbreast Dream Cask ...

By Emma Briones Rating: B- It’s common nowadays that some rare whiskies increase their price and become more difficult to find. Whisky Foundation has launched The Reserve, a selection dubbed by them as “the stock market” of whiskies. That represents a market-driven pricing scheme, where the price tag fluctuates based on demand. The first and current example is a Springbank ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A The big autumnal bourbon releases are usually dominated by annuals, names like Stagg and Van Winkle that have a devoted fan following. Yet each year usually presents one or two one-shot gems, items that are truly limited editions because they don’t come out every year. This year is no exception, and the one-shot release of ...

By Randall H. Borkus Rating: A Elijah Craig-maker Heaven Hill boasts that it holds the world’s second largest inventory of Bourbon and possibly the most “extra-aged” barrels of any competing distillery. With that stock in mind, if there is one thing Heaven Hill has perfected, it is their ability to cherry-pick exceptional single barrel whiskeys to offer a Whiskey craving ...