By Richard Thomas Richard Thomas, Owner-Editor Best New Whiskey, Heaven Hill 27 Year Old Bourbon: This survivor of the greatest American distillery disaster of modern times, the 1996 Heaven Hill fire, is more than just a magnificent pour of ultra aged bourbon. It also somehow got to the grand old age of 27 years, ancient in bourbon terms, without becoming ...

Port Askaig, the brand based on Coal Ila single malt, has unveiled a 33 year old single cask whisky. Distilled in 1984, the lone cask behind this release has yielded just 115 bottles. Unsurprisingly, a quite aged bottling of Islay whisky isn’t priced cheaply: a bottle of Port Askaig 33 Year Old will set you back $800.

The Benromach Distillery Company is releasing an extremely rare and limited edition Scotch malt whisky matured for 40 years in a single Refill Sherry Hogshead cask. Building on the popularity of previous vintage releases from the 1970s, 184 bottles of Benromach 1978, from cask number 2608, are available for worldwide sale. The single cask, cask strength (56.3% ABV) whisky has ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Whereas the rye whiskeys of Kentucky barely qualify as such, with a rye content just over the 51% minimum mandated by Federal law, it’s pretty much the norm for a rye made anywhere else to have more of the primary grain in it than that. The next most common style is the MGP-made 95% rye ...

By Father John Rayls Rating: B+ Having lived much of my life in Indiana, it always seemed to me there should have been a much larger whiskey representation in both distilleries and retail product. Kentucky and (southern) Indiana have much in common culturally, but the whiskey part never got much of a footing north of the Ohio River. Of course, ...