Some of you may have more pleasant memories than this, but when we catch a glimpse of a bottle of Wild Turkey, it sends me either into a catatonic trance with murmurs of “the horror, the horror” a la one of Marlon Brando’s best scenes from “Apocalypse Now” or fits of collegiate convulsions in a… [Continue Reading]
800 casks were said to make up the 2002 vintage of Evan Williams Single Barrel, so WC must have won the lottery and received the black sheep of the cask family. The not-so-clever acronym for Evan Williams Single Barrel is EWSB and, coincidentally, that is akin to the first sound that emanated from our mouths… [Continue Reading]
Let us approach this review of Lexington Bourbon from a positive perspective rather than a negative angle – it’s not that the bourbon that proclaims to receive a 95 from the experts at The Tasting Panel magazine is bad, nor are we in any lofty position to challenge the TP experts’ taste buds to a… [Continue Reading]
At first, the fluorescent green color of Bulleit 10 – the new 10-year aged bourbon from Bulleit – threw me off, but maybe that was just the hallucinations of Ferdinand Magellan talking or Theodor Geisel or some combination of the two. Okay, all joking aside, Bulleit 10 is not really fluorescent green – though I… [Continue Reading]
The Woodford Bourbon Single Barrel Reserve has received a lot of great reviews from connoisseurs of dry bourbons. This Kentucky bourbon from the Labrot & Graham Distillery in Versailles is a distinctive deep orange color and easily recognizable for its unique shade. The smell which greets my nose when I open the bottle is mostly… [Continue Reading]
Having tried other vintages of the Evan Williams bourbon line from Heaven Hill, I decided to try the 13th vintage, released in 1998. The Evan Williams line of whisky has won a number of awards over the years. The bottle I bought was marked with the precise date it was bottled. The liquid is a… [Continue Reading]
Four Roses Single Barrel bourbon is a select, high quality bourbon which is released only in limited quantities every year. Each bottle comes with a label which includes the name of the warehouse and racking location where the bourbon was aged, prior to being sampled for quality and bottled by hand. Considering the care and… [Continue Reading]
Maker’s Mark is a very popular mid-priced bourbon whisky which you can get for about $20.00. Having seen many great reviews for this bourbon, I thought I’d give it a shot. The flavor profile looked appealing, and I’m always searching for good, affordable “everyday” bourbons which won’t drain my budget. The drink is amber in… [Continue Reading]
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