Buffalo Trace Has Kept Its Prices Artificially Low For Years. Has It Helped Or Hurt Consumers? By Richard Thomas Although the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection (BTAC) and Pappy Van Winkle have enjoyed such demand that one needed to put their name on a waiting list to get a bottle as far back as 20 years …
By Richard Thomas A few years ago, I coined the phrase “Craft Whiskey 2.0” to describe new and evolved features that defined small whiskey-makers relative to what they were in 2005 or 2010*. However, I never codified everything I meant by that anywhere, not even in my book American Whiskey, preferring to focus on the …
The Problem Isn’t The Secondary Market Anymore. It’s The Retailers. By Richard Thomas Whenever the subject of the spiraling cost for limited edition whiskeys has come up during the last decade, someone always curses “the secondary market.” Lately, it has even become the villain for why brands like Blanton’s are no longer available on store …
Trump’s Trade War Didn’t Help Bourbon Consumers At All, But It Might Have Crippled The Goose Laying The Golden Eggs By Richard Thomas Between March and June 2018, President Trump enacted tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum for certain countries, and then extended those tariffs to imports from the European Union. While …
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 …
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…
I’ve been smoking cigars regularly for about 9 years. Prior to that, a cigar would be enjoyed during a round of golf or maybe while mowing the lawn. Since 2006, I’ve enjoyed some very fine domestic and cuban expressions and like whisk…
As part of the administrative tools available via the blog provider, I can see keyword searches you all put into the Google Machine or other browsers and clearly readers are questioning the possible demise of the age statement. Within the last co…
