Type: Bourbon Age: No Age Statement ABV: 50.0% Price: $39.99 Although I’m crazy for bourbon, I admit that its flavor spectrum is fairly limited when compared with that of single malt scotch. The taste profiles of modern bourbons are dominated…
Type: Bourbon Age: No Age Statement ABV: 50.0% Price: $39.99 Although I’m crazy for bourbon, I admit that its flavor spectrum is fairly limited when compared with that of single malt scotch. The taste profiles of modern bourbons are dominated…
Type: Straight Rye Whiskey ABV: 50% Age: No Age Statement Price: $75 Once I’ve spent money on a bottle of whiskey, I try to never again think about its price. I prefer to focus on the contents of the bottle,…
Type: Single Malt Scotch ABV: 56.1% Age: 17 Years Old Price: $89.99 Look at this picture of Greta Garbo. Grasp for the now-clichéd superlatives required to describe her skin, as free from flaws as the lacquer finish of a prewar…
Type: Single Malt Scotch ABV: 55.2% Age: 16 Years Old Price: $115.99 To paraphrase the beautiful D. Boon, spending $100 on this bottle made me feel like a dork. A sexy, optimistic dork. The nose on this Laphroiag is familiar to…
Type: Bourbon ABV: 61.6% Age: 10 Years and 6 Months Price: $59.99 This bourbon smells overwhelmingly of tobacco. Closing my eyes and sniffing the glass is like shoving my head into a (well-stocked) cigar humidor. On the tongue, it’s more…
Type: Single Malt Scotch Age: 22 Years Old ABV: 58.1% Price: $169.00 The color of this Mortlach, aged in barrels that previously held sherry, is absolutely striking. If red velvet cake were a liquid, it’d look like this stuff. Visually,…
Type: Tennessee Whiskey Age: 9 Years Old ABV: 51.5% Price: $45.99 George Dickel is the “other” Tennessee whiskey – the one that’s not Jack Daniels. This 9 year-old selection is rich and sweet. Hugely sweet, even. It’s also remarkably smooth. …
Type: Bourbon ABV: 51.5% Age: 6 Years Old Price: $18 About a year ago, my wife and I spent an evening at the home of our friends Phil and Mary. Soon after we arrived, one or the other of them…
*The title of today’s entry comes from the 1984 film Top Secret. This marks the first, but likely not the last time that I will apply insights from Top Secret to the world of whiskey. Until about fifteen years ago,…
Ezra Brooks 15 Bourbon Review
Type: Bourbon Age: 15 Years Old ABV: 50.5% Price: N/A I recently read McCay Coppins’s remarkable profile of Donald Trump. It left me chewing on a couple of questions: first, why a man with so much – not simply wealth and…