By Richard Thomas In my experience, scenic watercourses surrounded with leafy green trees are part of the setting at many a distillery tour, but the bucolic splendor of George Dickel’s Cascade Hollow is in a class of its own. Whether you approach the distillery from the north or south, the route winds its way down a little country road alongside ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: B- Based on my observations alone, I believe no other whiskey-maker licenses their name to anything like the extent that Jack Daniel’s does. At the supermarket alone, their name could appear in at least three different aisles, a testament to just how far the company licenses its brand. Thus Jack Daniel’s is into candy, such as ...

Updated December 23, 2020 By Richard Thomas Rating: B+ The single barrel whiskey concept, in America at least, began with the introduction of Blanton’s in 1984 by the legendary Master Distiller Elmer T. Lee. Back then, however, that Frankfort, Kentucky distillery was known as the George T. Stagg Distillery. It wouldn’t be renamed Buffalo Trace until 2001, and was a ...

By Richard Thomas Rating: C Whiskey-based barbecue sauces have gone from being a niche product found in distillery gift shops to a supermarket fixture, Jack Daniel’s line of barbecue sauces are a big part of why. The thing is that a barbecue sauce like the one I review here merely bears the Jack Daniel’s name, and doesn’t have even so ...

Updated December 7, 2023 By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ The Kentucky boy’s disdain for Tennessee whiskey once to came easily to me, so much so that when I was younger (and much more foolish), I labeled Tennessee whiskey a bastard offspring of bourbon and yet another classic example of how Kentucky’s southerly neighbors made a mess of aping everything we ...