By Richard Thomas Rating: B It’s been several years since the world became aware of how good Japanese whisky can be, and how the category has changed in that time. The two big names, Nikka and Suntory, have found themselves painfully pinched by the depletion of their stocks of aged and ultra-aged whisky; I’ve long said that anyone who wants ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ Although I haven’t attended a whiskey event or a gathering of enthusiasts since the launch of my most recent book, American Whiskey, in February 2020, the internet has ensured that I still hear this outdated fallacy about craft whiskey from time to time: “all craft whiskey is aged for just months in small barrels, which ...

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 Rating: B Whiskies tying into movies and TV series have been a thing for a the last few years or so, and back during the late stage of Game of Thrones the world’s biggest drinks company, Diageo, decided to join that game. Using their Classic Malts brands as the basis, Diageo introduced a line of malts, one for ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Heretofore, Pinhook has been known for its sourced whiskeys rather than its in-house production from Castle & Key. This first batch of Bohemian represents a shift towards the latter, as this inaugural high proof expression (114.5 proof to be exact), is drawn from the first 100 barrels of their bourbon made and aged at what ...