A World of Whiskey, Poured Every Weekday
By Richard Thomas Rating: B If whiskey’s long march back into international prominence started anywhere, it was with the rising popularity of single malt scotch in the 1980s. Yet being just old enough to remember it, and having been to Britain in the late 1980s, I recall a concurrent development that fell by the wayside:… Continue reading Monkey Shoulder Scotch Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: C+ Jim Murray has been causing quite a stir lately, first by announcing that bourbon has been beating out scotch lately. Then he gave Glen Orchy 5 Year Old, a generic brand available through the Lidl supermarket chain an 88.5 rating, higher than many basic, mass market blended scotches in The… Continue reading Glen Orchy 5 Year Old Scotch Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: A Updated November 22, 2014 A decade ago, John Glaser created an intensely peaty vatted malt for the Park Avenue Liquor Shop, dubbed simply the Monster. The idea evolved into the hugely popular Peat Monster, Compass Box’s best selling expression. Success like that demands a follow-up, especially when the world is… Continue reading Peat Monster 10th Anniversary Scotch Review
By Richard Thomas Rating: C Vatted malts are all the rage these days, but not every vatted malt is made by an artisan or as consequently expensive as that might suggest. Just as Famous Grouse offers a cheap peaty scotch in the form of its Black Grouse, Cutty Sark offers a cheap vatted malt, or… Continue reading Cutty Sark Blended Malt Scotch Review
By Jake Emen Rating: A Nikka’s Taketsuru line consists of several ages of pure malt whiskey — unlike with Scotch, Japanese whiskey is not prohibited from using the “pure malt” label — and Nikka simply uses the term to signify a vatted malt whiskey drawn from their Yoichi and Miyagikyo distilleries. The Taketsuru Pure Malt… Continue reading Nikka Taketsura Pure Malt 12 Year Old Whiskey Review
