As I’ve noted in previous posts, my spirits journey started with Bourbon. At 18 I was enjoying Wild Turkey 12 year, drinking it neat or mixing it with coke. It was plentiful and cheap back in the early 80’s. Fast forward (quite …
Right now if you want a George T. Stagg or the much-hyped Pappy Van Winkle 15, you are going to pay a premium and by premium, I mean as much as $1,500 or more on the secondary market for said Pappy. The history of now with respect to whiskey is f…
Every once in a while I look back and see what I was doing and interested in 10 years ago and funny thing, not much has changed. Still doing the whiskey and cigars bit albeit expanded to a large degree. I know the blog has been dorman…
I’ve lived in Virginia for nearly 32 years and for that duration, the Commonwealth has been an ABC state. Back when I moved here in 1985 my bourbon of choice was Wild Turkey 8 year 101 or Kentucky Spirit. It took nearly 20 years to come aro…
Understand it’s been some time since I’ve posted and truth is, I got lazy for a while. A friend and fellow whiskey enthusiast passed away the afternoon of April 8th. He wasn’t old and had not been feeling ill. It was just one of those …
Want to wish everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving. Among my enthusiast friends, this time of year always generates the question “what are you drinking this Thanksgiving?”. I don’t know about the rest of you but I really don’t map out what…
I’ve been a big fan of High West for quite a few years. Their 21 year rye is probably my favorite rye whiskey. So I had mixed feelings when it was announced last week that Constellation Brands purchased High West for $160 million.David Perk…
Over the years my job has taken me to places all over the world; Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, Middle East and Down Under. On my bucket list of places to at least visit once has been Paris and Rome so while in between jobs in May, my wife …
Here I am…..reviewing Ardbeg Dark Cove on a very warm July afternoon. I’ll admit I took a bit of a hiatus to enjoy some down time. As I mentioned in my previous post I was shedding some overhead out of my life and took a break to just rel…
Sorry, sorry sorry…..it’s been quite some time since I’ve posted. Up until about 3 weeks ago I was heavily engaged in the selling of a business that really took longer and more of my time that I expected so it impacted time reserved for extra c…
