Quarantine Bottle Kill #8: Kilchoman Sauternes Cask Matured (2016)
It feels like the quarantine weeks are quickly going up in smoke. That’s probably because half of the home bar […]
Quarantine Bottle Kill #5: Longrow Red 11 Year Cabernet Sauvignon Cask
Just because we’re in quarantine doesn’t mean that there can’t be a theme. Aside from sparking joy by eliminating bottles […]
Quarantine Bottle Kill #3: Springbank 12 Year Cask Strength Burgundy
Springbank has always been a fascinating distillery to me. I intellectually love them. They are one of the last great […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Hitting Johnnie Green’s Stride
Johnnie Walker is a striding behemoth, straddling the world as the number one selling Scotch whisky brand. It’s so popular […]
Open Bottle: Nineteen Eighty-Four JURA
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Released in 1949 George Orwell’s masterpiece […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Islay Barley
When you think of whisky and what gives it it’s flavor what springs to mind? Is it the mashbill, the […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Compass Box Directions
There are things that I love and there are things that I intellectually love. There’s a Venn Diagram where these […]
Whiskey Wednesday: The Chivas Brothers
Some things seem so ubiquitous, so omnipresent that they become nearly invisible. All of the work, all of the marketing, […]
Whiskey Wednesday: Changing A Pig’s Nose
Consolidation is the name of the game. Every week there is another story of a small or independent distillery being […]
Whiskey Wednesday: A’bunadh, Aberlour A’bunadh
Bigger is always better right? Just like the old fashioned way is the best way. Or at least that’s what Aberlour has been banking on the past two decades with their A’bunadh releases.
Whiskey Wednesday: The Experiential Exceptionals
I’m told my generation, (I refuse to say ‘Millennial’) values experience over material possessions. That a memory formed, or an […]
A Balvenie Burns Night
Welcome to Burns Night. The annual celebration of the life and death of Robert Burns, the National Bard of Scotland […]
Give Me More of that Octomore
Maybe it’s like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, […]
Alexander Murray and Friends
“Good friends, good books, and sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ~ Mark Twain I’d personally add good booze […]
Auchentoshan Three Wood Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Happy accidents are all around us. They often start simple. You wander into a bar, look around, find yourself presented […]
