February 2010
11 posts
Tastings Notes: St. George California Single Malt...
Visit their website, and you could be forgiven for thinking that St. George Spirits in Alameda, California is known entirely for crafting Eaux de Vie. However the distillery offers a number of spirits, and even played a key role in bringing absinthe back to the America market. If you are a regular on the cocktail circuit, you’ve probably seen their bottles of Absinthe Verte, the first...
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Tasting Notes: Harviestoun Ola Dubh Special...
Harviestoun Ola Dubh Special Reserve 16: A tasty beverage.
A few months ago, we wrote reviews of Harviestoun Ola Dubh (“engine oil”) beer after it had been aged in Highland Park barrels that previously held Highland Park 12 and 30 year old whiskies. The only part of this limited release we were missing was the variety of Ola Dubh that had been aged in barrels previously holding...
A Droonkarde's Tune: Favourite Songs for Drinking
If we were all very famous and important whisky writers and people were always asking us what kind of music we like to listen to when we drink, and what our favourite drinking songs are, my answer would probably be an incoherent and lengthy ramble. But I’ve had this list of great whisky, whiskey, and otherwise alcohol-related music in my head for a while now, and I’ve just finally...
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Tasting Notes: The BenRiach Authenticus 21 year...
We’ve tasted and reviewed both the unpeated BenRiach 12 year old and the heavily peated and awesome BenRiach Curiositas 10 year old expressions, and you can read more about the distillery in either of those posts or in a great tour write-up by Whisky for Everyone. BenRiach releases only 4,800 bottles per year of this peated 21 year old Speyside, which is also available in the “Classic...
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Tasting Notes: Hudson Single Malt Whiskey -...
As regular readers know, late last year the Whisky Party crew put together a group of friends to purchase a 3 gallon barrel of single malt American whiskey from Tuthilltown Distillery in New York. After much work (and mishaps) shipping 23 bottles to various places across the country, all three of our bloggers were finally able to taste their bottles. Here are the tasting notes on our very first...
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On Buying a Barrel of Whiskey: Tuthilltown...
Are you guys related…
Mike F recently wrote of his trip to the Tuthilltown Spirits Distillery, the female planner of which (LadyDrammer?) checked with me before making arrangements as to whether I thought it would make a good holiday surprise and if I was interested in joining. Although the distillery canceled their tours for the day on which I was on the east coast and able to go, in...
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The Glenlivet Nàdurra Triumph 1991: Tasting Notes...
After several years of success with the 16 year old Nàdurra (Gaelic for “natural”), Glenlivet has recently released to the US a 1991 vintage (18 year old) variant malted exclusively from the Triumph two-row barley varietal. Apparently, Glenlivet no longer sources the Triumph barley for its whiskies, so this limited edition release is all the more exclusive. Still, it retails for between $75 and...
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40 Whiskies Under $40: Macphail’s Collection...
Gordon & Macphail, a top notch whisky shop in Elgin, Scotland has been bottling its own versions of many single malts since 1895. But now the shop has an answer to the problem of global economic downturn doubled down by rising whisky prices: the Macphail’s Collection of quality, young single malt Scotches. The series includes a Bunnahabhain, a Tamdhu, and a Glenrothes, among others,...
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40 Whiskies Under $40: Tomatin 12 year old
We’ve already reviewed Trader Joe’s Tomatin 10 (available in CA), and Dan didn’t have much love for it. But fortunately for the right-most 95% of the country (and the rest of the drinking world), Tomatin has an extremely affordable official 12 year old release into which they clearly put a lot of work. Tomatin, in the Monadh Liath Mountains outside of Inverness, is at once one...
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Tasting Notes: Tuthilltown Spirits' Hudson New...
At the end of our very interesting tour of the Tuthilltown Spirits’ distillery we enjoyed a tasting session in their quaint farmhouse/shop. Surrounded by barrels of whiskey everywhere, there were many varieties of Hudson Whiskey to sample. This un-aged new make Corn Whiskey suprised me as one of my favorites.
Hudson New York Corn Whiskey
Abv: 46%
Color: vodka
Legs: medium-to-large...
