Redbreast Has Quite The Find With Andrew Scott
Redbreast has ‘Quite the Find’ for their newest promotional campaign, enlisting the aid of Irish actor Andrew Scott [“Fleabag”] for their Irish single pot still whiskey. The new global campaign features the Bafta Award-winning Irish actor encouraging audiences via voice-over and meaningful glances to avoid the beetroot and to dig deeper to unearth ‘something amazing’ […]
Talisker Ventures Out Into The Wild Blue
Isle of Skye-based Talisker Distillery has released The Wild Blue, a limited edition single malt whisky geared toward supporting ocean conservation and coastal habitat restoration efforts with its sales. Talisker partnered with the Blue Marine Foundation, a UK ocean conservation charity, for the release. As for the whisky itself, it was finished for 16 months […]
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Glenfarclas 1953
“You lucky, lucky bastard.” That’s what I imagine most of you will be thinking in about a minute, once you’ve read what the mailman handed me a little while back. Well, I say a little while, it was actually about a month and a bit – which makes this my new personal record in lazy review writing. All that nonsense aside, what the mailman handed me was an inconspicuous looking […]
Distillery Tour #2: Balblair
Day two of the trip started out similarly to day one: another early alarm (though not quite as early as day one), and another exceedingly unspectacular May morning. This time around, however, I was in a hotel rather than my room – don’t ask me its name or location, I was every bit the passive passenger – and rather than flying to Wick we would be driving to Balblair. Whiz […]
Aberfeldy 21 Year Old
Oh dearest, dearest pocket. I sincerely hope you can forgive me once more for digging too deep, collecting the very last you had to offer, for no reason other than my own decadence. Forgive, and recover. I’m sure most, or at least many, fellow whisky lovers of less than unlimited means will have been in a similar situation at least once: you know you shouldn’t buy something, but equally you […]
Distillery Tour #1: Old Pulteney
My alarm went off at 6:05, and after a mere five hours sleep – far short of the eight I so desperately need – I was greeted by an incredibly mediocre May morning. Normally this would all add up to one very unhappy, if not downright moody, Martin: but not today. Ahead of me lay three days of good whisky, good food, and, as fortune had it, exceptionally good company! […]
Maker’s Mark
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 color and smells delicious. Even the aroma is complex, consisting of honey, fruit (banana?), vanilla, […]
Isle of Jura 200th Anniversary
Companies like to justify promotions and products with dubious links to current happenings, so I’ve noticed. An example includes the hoards of businesses from whom I received an e-mail on February 29th this year (this being 2012, a leap year) offering an ever so clever 1-day-only discount of – you guessed it – 29%! Similarly, they like to highlight milestones of their own with special offerings, and the world of […]
Basil Hayden’s Small Batch
Basil Hayden’s Small Batch Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is a bourbon from Jim Beam’s “Small Batch” collection. The modern recipe is based off of a classic recipe by an early American distiller named Basil Hayden. The bourbon has a distinctive presentation which includes a paper label secured by a ribbon featuring the Basil Hayden logo. The bottle I bought had aged eight years, but was still a pale golden color. […]
Whisky Smoothie
One of the things I like most about the summer is how easily you can get your hands on cheap fruits and berries. Last summer I was wise enough to fill my freezer with berries, pounds upon pounds of berries, and it cost me a mere handful of golden coins. They’ve lasted me until now, and as luck would have it berry season isn’t far off. The reason I love […]
Angel’s Envy
Angel’s Envy is a bourbon whisky produced by Lincoln Henderson of Woodford Reserve fame. The bottle which I purchased had been aged for five years in a charred new oak barrel and then finished in a port barrel. I had heard that Angel’s Envy was a fruity bourbon which is spicy, sweet, unique, and very flavorful.
Crowdsourced Distillery
Do you have somewhere between $3,100-2,875,455 kicking about? Fancy making the world a happier, shinier, better place? Then why not consider investing in a new distillery. Would-be entrepreneur Douglas Barclay Clement think the world needs more whisky (a sentiment with which I am sure most of us thoroughly agree), and is looking to fund the start of one through the magic of the interweb. I’m sure most of you have […]
The Famous Goose
I really like it when companies have the courage to step outside of their comfortable little boxes and do something new; I have even more respect for them when that involves a move away from an existing brand. The latter part may stem from my marketing experience and appreciation of how difficult brand creation is, so take my word for it when I say that it’s not all fun and […]
Islay Series #5: The Botanist Gin by Bruichladdich
I’ll have to admit right off the bat that I’m not a big gin drinker – this could very well be because the standard gin varieties (I’m mainly pointing my finger at Gordon’s, here) are utter nonsense, and drinking that pretty much put me off the stuff. I was very surprised to find myself not only enjoying, but darn near loving, a glass of neat gin which was presented to […]
Johnnie Walker Gold Label
Having already reviewed Johnnie Walker Black Label (where you’ll also find a bit of distiller history) and Green Label, both of which are fairly well-priced whiskies, I thought it about time to check out one of their slightly more expensive blends – the Gold Label, ooh! Very fancy name indeed, but does the whisky live up to it? And more importantly, is it worth the extra $30 on top of […]
Old Grand Dad Bourbon
Old Grand Dad by Brown Foreman Distillery is an inexpensive bourbon available for $12.00-$20.00. The recipe is said to date back to 1840, possibly even earlier (the label says “Since 1882” though). It has been passed from distillery to distillery over the subsequent years, and currently is the property of Jim Beam. There are several different versions of Old Grand Dad in existence including a 100 proof version, a 114 […]
Greenore 8 Year Old
Cooley is an Irish whiskey distillery, founded in 1987 with the goal to ‘create more choice for consumers through innovation and the revival of old distilling techniques’ – definitely a goal worth a round of applause if you ask me. In their current range they offer both blended whiskey, single malts and, interestingly, a single grain whiskey that goes under the name of Greenore; it is this latter whiskey we […]
Diamond Jubilee
Oh, how my fingers are tingling with temptation! A lot of people are of the opinion that the royal family do little good yet cost a lot of money – paid to cut ribbons and pose for pictures, they say – well, I don’t quite agree. Call me a traditionalist, but I like the royal family. Sure, they get paid a bit and on paper their job description doesn’t look […]
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