The GlenDronach Distillery announces the US arrival of three casks from the 19th batch of its acclaimed Cask Bottling collection. Master Blender Rachel Barrie personally selected a total of twelve casks, each bottled from a single Pedro Ximénez or Oloroso sherry puncheon or Butt, distilled between 1990 and 1994. Whether previously housed in sweet and rich Pedro Ximénez or dry ...

Today, Glendalough Distillery has announced the launch of a 7-year-old Irish single malt aged in very rare Japanese Mizunara casks sourced from the island of Hokkaido, Japan. A relentless search for the most flavorful oak in the world took them from their own wooded mountains in Wicklow to those in the volcanic north of Japan, Hokkaido. This is where they ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A- The Tomatin-Glenlivet Distillery is named for the village of Tomatin, plus the common practice 19th Century of tying the name Glenlivet onto things. If you making a study of distilleries in Scotland in 1897, when Tomatin was founded, you would have found quite a few this-Glenlivet and Glenlivet-that distilleries, and none of them had anything ...

By Richard Thomas St. Patrick’s Day 2022 is now about a month away, and the mix of pandemic fatigue and omicron still spiking hard means folks will both celebrate at home and out in bars. No matter, because the best way to celebrate Hibernian identity is still to hoist a dram of fine Irish whiskey, and one of the best ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B Located in the Appalachian foothills of Virginia, not all that far from Charlottesville, Virginia Distillery made its initial reputation for skillfully created hybrid whiskies: they blended their youthful in-house American single malts with imported Scottish malts, and then gave the hybrid a “marriage” (secondary finishing) in used-but-native Virginia casks. An example is their Cider Cask ...