Kavalan 2010 Sherry Cask The Whisky Exchange

I’ll be totally blunt: My list of samples is right screwed at the moment. Half of it’s ready to go, and the other half exists in a state of disarray, clinging to an old Google sheet that has a big, blocky cutoff. When I’m working on review series, I sometimes grab things from this nebulous […]

Michter’s US*1 Barrel Strength Rye

Thanks to /u/blaw82 for the sample. In the past few years, given multiple reasons, I haven’t had many bourbons. Probably due to the increased cost, but also I’ve realised I’m more of a Scotch fan. That said, my father is still a bourbon fan, and his bourbon friends are not within his area code, and as such […]

Secret Highland 36 1983 The Whisky Agency

Thanks to /u/ScotchGuy_TO for the dram. Spent a day out and about for my wife, what with loving her and all and it being her birthday. After driving around quite a bit, we sojourned to a friend’s house, sat back, and he poured me a dram. That dram? Albert Einstein. And then everybody clapped. Wait, no, wrong […]

Irish 31 1990 Archives

We’re well past the point where one can ignore Irish whiskey. Who made this? I don’t know. Don’t care at this point. Seriously, in 1972 there were only two whiskey distilleries in operation in Ireland. And both were owned by Irish Distillers (the company). Compare that to 1887, when there were 28 in total. As […]

Compass Box The Peat Monster Arcana

Thanks to /u/the_muskox [+7] for sharing this sample with me. I’ve written recently about peat being the proverbial milkshake that brings all the whisky nerds to the yard. Yes, I’m that old to make that quote. So if you’re a maker of a peated offering, what do you do? You are under the gun to continuously grow the […]

Teaninich 20 1999 Archives

Thanks to /u/scotchandponder for sharing the dram (haven’t touched the rest yet). A lifetime ago, when the Scotch subreddit was smaller, before the internet went truly disturbing (and was only working on being toxic), someone noticed that very few people were reviewing distilleries that started with the letter ‘T’. Which I’m pretty sure was a joke. No […]

Glenfiddich 21 Winter Storm

Thanks to /u/Plothound for pouring me this dram. This is the last of the six Glenfiddich reviews I did in a row. Why? Because it was time. And it’ll be more time when I finally dig out the Glenfarclas whiskies, but… uh oh. And what a way to end it all: Yes, it would have made more […]

Glenfiddich Canadian Cask of Dreams

Thanks to /u/EvilAFI for this sample. So I’m at this food and wine expo, years ago, back when going to an expo didn’t give me uncomfortable feelings. Well before the pandemic. There’s a whisky section, and even at that point, I wasn’t stoked to visit the section. Don’t get me wrong: They had samples, they had information, […]

Glenfiddich Fire & Cane

Thanks to /u/the_muskox for sharing this dram. I continue along with my series of Glenfiddich reviews that I’m doing to make up room, as it’s been too long to do these, and I have a few of them. As the whisky I had before this one was Peated, I needed to pick out a similarly peated whisky. […]

Glenfiddich Cask Collection Vintage Cask

This is the last of the Cask Collection, but not the last of the Glenfiddich reviews! We need more of them, for… reasons, probably? I don’t know, I do this to fill the time between being alive and then not that. Hope you enjoy me screaming into the void. So I waited a tad too […]