I reviewed Old Forester’s (a brand I like) Birthday Bourbon (a label I’ve always wanted to try) release for 2024 and hooooo boy. It wasn’t bad, but lord, it wasn’t great. I think the regular stuff is better. I felt bad, but I’ve gotta be honest, and the other early reviews I’ve read look like … Read more
Tasting Table asked me to review the latest installment of Jack Daniel’s Distillery Selection Series, and I found #13 to be commendable for the price. If you hesitate on rye and can get this near label price, it might just weave around your usual apprehensions on the normally peppery whiskey.
I’ve loved Colonel Edmund Haynes Taylor whiskey since it was cheap and I was a whiskey idiot. Now it’s expensive and I’m a whiskey idiot, but I can still summon some great reasons why you should get your hands on a bottle of Buffalo Trace’s newest addition to the Taylor family, the Barrel Proof Rye. … Read more
You’ve got questions about the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection, ranging from “What is it?” to “Where do I get some?” I can only help you with the first one and many of the questions in between, unless I really, really like you and share some of my limited press taster samples. But until that glorious … Read more
I love me some Weller, but I can’t recommend this new Weller Millennium release–certainly not at this price point, at any rate. That said, I did have a wonderful time sampling it in the company of superior whiskey reviewers. My thoughts on where Weller Millennium fails (but also succeeds) are up on Tasting Table.
