By Emma Briones Rating: B+   Label 5 is a blended scotch owned by the french company La Martiniquaise. With Label 5 Classic Black as the start of their range, they offer a variety of expressions. This includes some premium blended whiskies, such as Label 5 12 Year Old. According to La Martiniquaise, “Label 5 12 Year Old is an ...

By Debbie Shocair Rating: B+ As a girl who hails from Texas, I’m not sure I can fairly convey my excitement at the craft whiskeys coming out of the Lone Star State, but I can tell you much of it is good; fairly, unabashedly so, in fact. Certainly the rash of new American Malts running through Whiskeydom is knocking things ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Uigeadail was launched by Ardbeg in 2003, back when the Iraq War was new. To many who have come lately to the wonders of world whisk(e)y, that is a long time ago indeed, so it’s worth mentioning that Uigeadail was Ardbeg’s first no age statement (NAS) release in what became a succession of them, so ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B The operating theme for The Lost Distillery Company is to create vatted malts that simulate the single malts produced by a now defunct distillery, and Scotland has dozens of them. In this instance, Jericho Distillery, also known as Benachie. This was founded as an Aberdeenshire farm-distillery in 1824. The name changed to Benachie in the ...

By Richard Thomas Rating:B- Knowing that Rabbit Hole is building it’s distillery in Louisville right now, and also knowing that it’s Rye whiskey has a (deceptively) familiar mash bill of 95% rye, 5% malted barley, one might conclude that the distillery’s whiskeys were all sourced from the always familiar MGP in Indiana. Not so. It is all sourced, but made ...