By Emma Briones Rating: A The Benromach Distillery closed its doors in 1983. Luckily for us, thanks to Gordon & MacPhail, it started to produce whisky again in 1998. Since then, its main focus has been to produce whisky as in the style of Speyside as it was in the 1950s, and a good example of that is their Benromach ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A Among that part of the whiskey enthusiast community that mirrors the Star Wars fanbase in most respects, there was a lot of grumbling when Heaven Hill converted the Old Fitzgerald Bottled in Bond into an aged, premium and bi-annual limited edition expression. They croaked that it was another example of taking discontinuing one of their ...

By Emma Briones Rating: A- Each year, Douglas Laing launches for Christmas a special edition of one of their most known whiskies: Big Peat. This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the Big Peat brand, so its limited-edition Big Peat Christmas 2019 had to be something really special. As for each edition, the recipe quantities change, but not the ...

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 ...

By Andrew Graham Rating: A Angel’s Envy is one of those distillers that just makes consistently great whiskeys. To me, the Angel’s Envy rye is one of the best ryes around, and I loved the 2018 cask strength expression. So I jumped at the opportunity to sample the 2019 cask strength, which hit stores on Nov. 1, and to compare ...