Fitting that the last drop I drank for my tenure at Tasting Table (at least for the time being) is The Last Drop 2025. And what a success to go out on! Spectacular finds this year. It’s no spoiler to say I enjoyed each one immensely. And it’s even more fitting that my favorite turned … Read more
Midleton Very Rare just put out its most distinguished, dareisay venerable whiskey ever, the Silent Distillery Chapter Six. And I did my best to drink it reverently. It’s something else, though at the price tag, best left as a collector’s item. I’d even say discounting the landmark status of the release, I’d find more favorable … Read more
Yours truly found himself at the Macallan 200th anniversary party–and I have been to some big to-do whiskey releases, but this was the first one that ever felt like a movie premiere. I got to sample the junior half of the Time: Space confusingly doubly named release (and the truly luxe edition itself containing two … Read more
Let’s take a trip to Kentucky! I did, and there I got a full tour of the grounds of the Maker’s Mark distillery, including their very cool mushroom farm, apiary, and solar fields mowed by free-range sheep. It’s my second distillery tour in the Bluegrass State, and both times I have been so impressed by … Read more
You ever take a trip down to Kentucky to try the Buffalo Trace Antique collection for breakfast, then find yourself in a completely separate tasting at lunchtime of the heretofore undiscovered inaugural Prohibition Collection? I mean in between mixing your own CYPB Weller and tasting the unannounced Eagle Rare 25. You have? Wait—did we drink … Read more
