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.
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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.
Old Fitzgerald 11 Year Old Bottled In Bond Bourbon Review (Fall 2024): A Classic With a Twist
The fall edition is a return to form for Old Fitz worthy of its MSRP and probably a reasonable markup, too.
New Riff Winter Whiskey Review: A Bourbon Tailor-Made For Sweater Weather
Winter Whiskey is one of those bourbons you’ll want to share with friends and keep in the bar for those occasions when your palate craves something really good but also something different.
Elijah Craig A125 Barrel Proof Review: Is This the Best Batch Yet?
No one ever regrets buying a bottle of ECBP because it always delivers, never disappoints and always makes people smile when you pour them some.
Alma del Jaguar Nocturna Tequila Review: A High-Proof Blanco Experience
Despite its 101 proof–a feistier number in tequila than in bourbon–it drinks nicely, and is quite supple, allowing more extended sipping. Have some dried spicy mango around to enjoy with this. Mexican desserts would be a plus.
Old Forester 117 Series ‘Warehouse I’ Review: A Limited 11-Year Bourbon
This is flat-out delicious. Kudos to whoever chose 95 as this spirit’s proof. It’s bold and beautiful, complex and loaded with character, velvety, weighty and luxuriant but without the bite of cask strength whiskey. Sometimes you gotta love medium proof bourbon.
Middle West Spirits Dark Pumpernickel Rye Review: A Unique Cask Strength Experience
According to Middle West, this is the first dark pumpernickel rye whiskey made in North America, and its mash bill contains 80 percent of that grain. Want a rye that’s not a dill Katz’s Deli pickle? Try this.
Bulleit 10 Year Rye Whiskey Review: A Decade of Bold Rye Flavor
This also is a delight on the palate: tingly, tropical-fruity (ripe pineapple/cooked pineapple and under-ripe banana), cherry and orange hard candy, light caramel, white chocolate with a subtle hints of dill and toasted oak.
Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Batch C924 Review: 129 Proof Bourbon Excellence
The finish ties it all together expertly with torched sugar, chocolate mint, and lingering notes of marmalade and chai tea. It’s perhaps not the stunner we were given at the end of 2023, but there’s certainly nothing to complain about here.