Tequila Reviews Fortaleza 2025 Winter Blend Review: Reposado Reveal On the nose is a battle between fruit and minerality, olfactory soldiers armed with aromatics derived from airborne yeast, cooked agave, tahona crushing and finishing in those ex-American whiskey, ex-PdC and ex-Madeira casks.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Booker’s The Reserves Review: 2025 Tequila-Barrel Bourbon Not only is it delicious, it's unique. This release marks the first time any spirit in the Beam portfolio was aged in ex-tequila casks, and it is–to my palate–an historically powerful bourbon that's beneficially tamed because of that.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews 2025 King of Kentucky Bourbon Review: 17-Year Majesty This is one of those bottles that makes me want to say to Chris Morris, "Just do more of this, please. Lots more of it."
Tennessee Whiskey Reviews Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Heritage Barrel Review On the palate, its 100 proof delivers satisfying spice and tingle while staying supple and enjoyable neat. Toasted oak is prominent, but not in the heavy-handed, newly sawn lumber way of many toasted barrels that dominate the maturate resting within them.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Maker’s Mark Cellar Aged 2025 Review: Fudge, Spice & Depth My shifting preferences also point out how delicious and keenly unique every batch of Cellar Aged actually is. And that has me thinking ... Maybe that $174.99 price tag isn't as high as I initially thought.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Four Roses 2025 Limited Edition Small Batch Bourbon Review On the nose you find all of that and more. It comes in waves of dried flowers, baked pastry, allspice and that classic Juicy Fruit gum bomb.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Jefferson's Reserve Cask Strength Review: The Cask Strength Bourbon You Didn't Know You Needed Jefferson’s finally gives Cask Strength its own spotlight. This 130-proof bourbon hits hard but drinks smooth—with a fruit-forward profile and a price that’s hard to argue with.
Bottle Elijah Craig B525 Review: Bold, Balanced & Barrel-Proof One immediately reached for an ECBP, pulled the cork, closed his eyes and took a long, patient sniff. He said that aroma was exactly the smell of the conflagration that awful day, and then poured himself a glass.
Tequila Reviews Nuestras Raices Agave Spirit Review The palate is delicious and adventurous, racing from sweet to tart to vegetal to minty to petrichor and back ... all in the first few seconds of sip No. 1.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Michter's 10 Year Single Barrel Bourbon Review – 2025 Release: One of the Best M10s Yet I've had the good fortune to sample several years of Michter's 10-year bourbon releases, and this is one of the best I've tasted yet.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Green River 250th U.S. Army Special Anniversary Bourbon Review Tasting this and knowing you've spent just $49.99 will make you wonder why you part with any more on any bottle. From sniff to sip, this is precisely what bourbon whiskey should taste like and cost in 2025.
Rye Whiskey Reviews Michter's 2025 Barrel Strength Rye Review: Big Spice, Bold Proof The nose on this Michter's Barrel Strength Rye takes me directly to the dump trough where tour guests get to stick their Glencairn glasses directly into the stream of whiskey glug-glug-glugging from the cask.
Tequila Reviews Wild Common Añejo Tequila Review: A Bold 94-Proof Sipper I've visited this distillery, and trust me, it's OLD old school. On a tour there, our guide pulled out a diagram of its process that was hand-sketched on an 8 x 11 piece of paper. No video. No fancy equipment with computerized monitors. Just a drawing.
Rye Whiskey Reviews BHAKTA 1928 Review: A Unique Blend of Rye and Vintage Spirits The nose is warm with apple pie filling and dark, caramelized sugar. Despite a mostly rye recipe, it's quite plush, almost buttery, with little in the way of lively spice.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Old Elk Slow Cut Review: Smooth Sipper with a Unique Proofing Twist On the palate, things are once again unsurprisingly approachable, dangerously approachable even. In fact, this is one of the easiest drinking whiskeys I've encountered.
Tequila Reviews Tequila Ocho Old Fitzgerald Barrel Aged Anjeo Review High notes of lemon cream candy, butterscotch, hibiscus, agave nectar, oak and baking spice combine for an incredibly balanced pour whose finish is bright, tingly, clean and short.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Maker’s Mark Wood Finishing Series 'The Keepers Release' Bourbon Review I have to admit that when I learned of this new release, I thought, "How long can this Wood Finishing Series go on?" Well, it took only one taste of The Keepers Release to convince me that this extension of the series is a great idea.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Old Hamer 10 Year Bourbon Review: Corn-Fueled Classic After sampling a handful of these different 8- and 10-year-old barrels, Pops and I decided that instead of a “Bottle” rating, we should buy a barrel.
Wheat Whiskey Reviews Bernheim Barrel Proof Original Wheat Whiskey Batch A225 Review: The Wheat Bomb Returns I keep harping on the Bernheim Barrel Proof A release from 2024, but it really did stand out to me in a short-lived series that, while consistently good, hasn't produced many very memorable expressions. This latest release, however, is nipping at its heels.
Rye Whiskey Reviews Pinhook 9-Year Vertical Rye Review: Aged Elegance Unveiled Tingling with spices like white pepper and coriander, it practically vibrates on the palate. Darkly toasted bread, French roast coffee, charred lemon, dried cherry, spearmint and some campfire mingle nicely alongside cocoa nibs. The finish is simple: long and warming.
Tennessee Whiskey Reviews Jack Daniel’s 14-, 12- and 10-Year-Old Tennessee Whiskey Review: Age Matters It's big on the palate without being a brute; as in none of the Coy Hill muscle or heat. I like those, too, but they have their place, and there's no place for that in this mature, balanced and well-mannered Tennessee whiskey.
Wheat Whiskey Reviews Middle West Spirits Cask Strength Wheat Whiskey: Wheat Done Right This whiskey is all about toasted aromas and flavors being superbly integrated. I'll take this whiskey over any purposely "toasted" release I can think of because those notes aren't all barrel and new lumber.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Green River Wheated Single Barrel Bourbon Review: A $60 Cask Strength Gem This high-proof release is in my sweet spot for wheated bourbon. Below 100 proof, wheated bourbon is unassertive and short on spice for my palate. As Maker's Mark Cask Strength proved years ago, magic happens in wheated bourbon proofed well past the century mark.
Rye Whiskey Reviews New Riff Balboa Rye 2025 Review: A Bold Take on Heirloom Rye This liquid is its own animal, a whiskey that, tasted blind, might fool a few folks into thinking it's a low-rye bourbon. Get a bottle and let the fun begin.
Bourbon Whiskey Reviews Old Forester 1924 Bourbon Review: A Decade of Depth and Flavor If someone can find flaws in this, you're either a freak of nature who's going to teach us all something we didn't know or you're nuts and making things up.
