By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ Earlier this spring, Jack Daniel’s introduced a new series on bottled in bond whiskeys. One of these was a revamping of an already existing expression, Jack Daniel’s Bottled in Bond Tennessee Whiskey. This one took an already existing, one-liter travel retail bottle and repackaged it as a general release in a 700ml, Euro-friendly bottle. I’ve ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A Summertime had been a pretty sleepy season on the whiskey release calendar. Autumn is the time of year most of the exciting one-shot releases and fan favorite annual editions come out, running right up to Christmas. Springtime also has some buzz, especially in Europe. Perhaps because summer isn’t considered “whiskey drinking season” in most of ...

Updated August 16, 2022 By Richard Thomas Average Rating: B Introducing a distillery to The Whiskey Reviewer readership is a rarity these days, so it’s refreshing to take on task for Royal Brackla. The distillery was started in 1812 by an ex-soldier, Captain William Fraser, on the estate of the Earl of Cawdor. Despite frequently clashing with local tax officials ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A- Making its way to or reaching shelves right now is the latest batch of Booker’s Bourbon for 2022. This one is dubbed The Lumberyard Batch, referring back to the time that Booker Noe worked in a lumber yard prior to entering the family trade at Jim Beam and embarking on his legendary bourbon career. More ...

By Kenrick Thurston-Wilcox Rating: A Leopold Bros Three Chamber Rye is the culmination of research, patience, and the idea to look to the past to see what could be done differently. This is an attempt to create something that has not been on the market in almost a century; to transport people back to a different time, when rye was ...