By Richard Thomas Rating: A- One of the peculiar things about the annual release of the Michter’s 10 Year Old Bourbon and 10 Year Old Rye is that they are both annual, limited releases and both are single barrels. It’s a formula designed to, potentially at any rate, present a fairly variable flavor profile. The only thing consistent about it ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: A Given that Angel’s Envy built its house on being the folks who finish Kentucky bourbon in Port wine casks, for some years observers were asking when they would introduce a Sherry cask finished bourbon. Once that was done, most of those same observers consolidated their wish list on arguably the rarest of all the whisky ...

The seventh installment of WhistlePig’s Boss Hog series, Magellan’s Atlantic, is poised for release. The new batch is single barrel, cask strength whiskey was aged for 17 years before finishing in two sets: Sherry butts and casks made from teak sourced from South America. Teak is a particularly exotic choice for a whiskey cask; this may be the first time ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ One pretty consistent pleasure of writing The Whiskey Reviewer is sitting down with the latest offerings from Barrell Craft Spirits. Batch 24 was based primarily on high rye bourbon stocks in consignments aged 9, 10 and 13 years old; this was rounded out with a 15 year old high rye bourbon of different sourcing. At ...

Templeton Rye Whiskey is proud to announce Caribbean Rum Cask Finish, the highly anticipated 2020 release in their “Barrel Finish Series.” This limited-edition American straight rye whiskey was originally matured to perfection for a period of five years in American oak flame-charred barrels and were specifically chosen from the distillery’s aging sourced stocks of rye whiskey. Once the “chosen” barrels ...