By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Utah’s High West earned its reputation as a fan favorite through their transparency. The company was among those that tried and proved the path of using sourced whiskey to develop a brand while mustering the resources and expertise to build a working distillery, develop whiskeys and mature them. What made them the darling of so ...

Kentucky distiller Heaven Hill announced today the release of the Old Fitzgerald Bottled-in-Bond 25th Anniversary Edition. This is a special release in the Old Fitzgerald line, outside the bi-annual spring and autumn releases, denoted as a “VVS.” The occasion is the 25th anniversary of Heaven Hill’s purchase of the Bernheim Distillery in Shively (an industrial suburb of Louisville), following the ...

Updated April 1, 2024 By Richard Thomas Average Rating: B+ Rabble Rouser has been around for a few years now, having first been released in 2015. Although it has been a four year old expression from the beginning, it was not initially labeled a bottled in bond and therefore can’t be considered as a forerunner of the craft bottled in ...

When Allen Katz and Tom Potter founded The New York Distilling Company (NYDC) in 2011, they started with the idea of developing a rye whiskey that captured the flavors and history of New York, a concept that has since been embodied as the regional “Empire Rye.” For their part, NYDC has now made their decade-old vision a reality with Jaywalk ...

Utah’s High West made a name for itself as a company that was refreshingly transparent about its sourced whiskeys at a time when many whiskey nerds had a fever-pitch obsession with the allegedly deceptive practices of Non-Distiller Producers. However, becoming a fan favorite on the basis of creative blending and transparency had the perhaps unintended effect of making those same ...