By Richard Thomas Rating: B- * Updated October 22, 2013 For decades, one of the largest distilleries in the world limited itself to producing only a few average types of whiskey. The Spanish Distilerias y Crianza del Whisky (DYC) is a huge, two-plant complex with a staggering annual capacity of 20 million liters of whiskey, although the last statistics I ...

(Buffalo Trace Press Release) Buffalo Trace Distillery launches its sixth round of Single Oak Project Bourbons, known as the 105 Proof Warehouse L Release. As the moniker indicates, all the bourbons in this release were aged in Warehouse L and entered into the barrel at 105 proof. This allows this release to focus on three other variables, the recipe, rye ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ For their latest and fourth addition to the Colonel E.H. Taylor collection of specialty bourbons, Buffalo Trace chose to focus on producing a cask strength bourbon. The idea of a cask strength or barrel proof whiskey invariably appeals to my love of the old fashioned. While cutting bourbon with water is a very old practice, ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A Kentucky might be on the fringe of “Tornado Alley,” but even so, those powerful storms seem to be a fixture of life in the Bluegrass. Kentuckians received a fairly vicious reminder of that fact in early March 2012, when twisters tore through the state and left almost two dozen dead. Yet sometimes a tornado strike ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A Isle of Jura’s 1976 scotch, also known as “Feith A’ Chaorainn,” is part of the distillery’s limited edition line. As the name implies, the single malt in question was distilled in 1976. Most Americans remember that year as the bi-centennial, but in the UK it saw the Cod War with Iceland, the first passenger flight ...