By Father John Rayls Rating: B+ Let’s hear it for the United States Marines: they’ve secured another beachhead in Lewisville, Texas, and secured it with (and for) whiskey! Some former US Marines found themselves living in the Dallas area after their discharge from service and sharing a love for bourbon started the Witherspoon Distillery in 2011. In addition to Witherspoon ...
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Label 5 Gold Heritage Scotch Review
By Emma Briones Rating: B- Label 5 expanded its range at the end of 2014 with a new expression: Label 5 Gold Heritage. The brand, owned by the French company La Martiniquaise, launched Label 5 Gold Heritage “to delight scotch whisky lovers who are looking to explore Label 5’s character in more depth.” According to La Martiniquaise, this NAS expression ...
Read More »Hellyers Road Roaring 40 Australian Whisky Review
By Emma Briones Rating: B Inspired by the story of explorer and cartographer Henry Hellyer, a group of dairy farmers founded a whisky distillery in the northwest of Tasmania. Eighteen years later, Hellyers Road is a best-selling, locally crafted Australian whisky, exported over to 20 countries. The first expression of their range is Hellyers Road Original Roaring Forty, which is ...
Read More »Stolen 11 Year Old American Whiskey Review
Updated April 3, 2018 By Richard Thomas Average Rating: B Stolen Spirits first gained attention with the introduction of its smoked rum and a marketing shtick that borrows a page from Abbie Hoffman’s Steal This Book and modernizes it. Now they have followed up on that with Stolen Whiskey. Stolen Whiskey began as an MGP product with which very few ...
Read More »Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: B I used to refer to New York, Texas and Colorado as the three states contending to become “America’s Third Whiskey State.” I’m beginning to rethink if it’s still just those three, but a big part of why I originally put Colorado on the list was Stranahan’s, one of the early entrants in the micro-distillery movement. ...
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