
Quarantine Bottle Kill #9: Elijah Craig 12 Year (From Long Ago In The Before Time)
There’s a sense of static in the air these past few weeks of quarantine. Not of any sense of normal […]
Whiskey Soaked Words
There’s a sense of static in the air these past few weeks of quarantine. Not of any sense of normal […]
It feels like the quarantine weeks are quickly going up in smoke. That’s probably because half of the home bar […]
I think the biggest thing people feel they have lost from this whole quarantine is time. Time lost on their […]
Just because we’re in quarantine doesn’t mean that there can’t be a theme. Aside from sparking joy by eliminating bottles […]
Springbank has always been a fascinating distillery to me. I intellectually love them. They are one of the last great […]
The next victim of the Quarantine Bottle Count is the Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection Rare Rye twins from 2011. Yes, […]
Continuing this month's conversation about Nikka comes the news that Nikka will be discontinuing the Taketsuru 17, 21, and 25 Year old expressions as of March of 2020.
The Taketsuru line represents NIkka’s history. It pays homage to its founding father as well as combining the art of both of the company’s distinct distilleries. The loss of the Taketsuru line is the loss of a piece of history but it does open a future. Whisky, and in particular Japanese Whisky, is having an incredibly large moment. Bit even if whisky distilled 25 years ago is being depleted left and right the world, and the flavor, that whisky represents is gone. The challenge now is to find the way to create the spirit that fills the barrel to be bottled in 25 years while still keeping the lights on in the years between.
I love a good story and Nikka Whisky certainly has a good story. A story of both an excellently crafted whiskey but also a phenomenal story in the life of the company’s founder, Masataka Taketsuru. The month of January is especially important to the story of Taketsuru and his redheaded Scottish wife, Rita. So, I thought I’d take some time and look at a few of Nikka’s offerings for the rest of January.
A couple of months ago I was graciously sent a sample of the new release of Blood Oath Bourbon. Between competitions, menu flips, leaving a job, and much needed vacation travel after leaving said job the sample unfortunately fell by the wayside. But with Halloween nearly upon us I figure it would be appropriate to crack open a little Blood Oath and see what it was about.
Conservatively, I would say that 87% of the Four Roses Single Barrel depletions at any bar I work at are […]
*Updated with new facts because I sometimes don't know everything.
Irish Whiskey is my least favorite category of whiskey. To be fair that’s only because I think about Canadian Whisky […]
Johnnie Walker is a striding behemoth, straddling the world as the number one selling Scotch whisky brand. It’s so popular […]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator […]
If you haven’t noticed America is a little odd. We like doing a lot of things backwards. Like our current […]
Agave is an odd category to me. There is an abundance of good agave products pouring into Los Angeles but […]