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Russell’s Reserve Single Barrel Rye Scoresheet & Review
These days it’s easy to find praise being sung for Wild Turkey, particularly following the inaugural release of Russell’s Reserve 13-Year. This brought increased demand for other limited offerings from Wild Turkey, such as previously slept-on Master’s Keep releases. Limited edition is all the rage these days. We might like…
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Wild Turkey Master’s Keep Decades Scoresheet & Review
The first Wild Turkey Master’s Keep release was a hardly an accurate representation of the distillery’s more recent overarching profile. Its age was the highest of any Wild Turkey product at the time, was under 90 proof despite being bottled at cask strength, and the pour itself was generally mild…
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Maker’s Mark 2020 Wood Finishing Series (SE4xPR5) Scoresheet & Review
Maker’s Mark has one of the more interesting stories in bourbon, especially when we compare their past to their present. Bill Samuels, Sr., one of the two key players behind the brand’s creation, was a traditionalist with regards to maintaining and ultimately preserving what made Maker’s Mark, well, Maker’s Mark.…
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Old Carter Single Barrel (12-Year, Barrel #19) Scoresheet & Review
Old Carter is a name I’ve heard people drop every now and then. It’s a fairly recent brand, being the latest passion project for Mark and Sherri Carter, a wine-versed couple who initially worked for Kentucky Owl. Now they’re doing their own thing with the Old Carter brand. Their focus…
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Whistlepig 12-Year Old World Rye Scoresheet & Review
Whistlepig isn’t a brand I expected to try anywhere outside of a bar. I often speak ad nauseum about whiskey pricing, and Whistlepig is an easy target in this respect. When a brand’s flagship bottle costs over $70, the word “premium” quickly springs to mind. In my review for said…
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Whistlepig 10-Year Scoresheet & Review
Few brands elicit split reactions quite like Whistlepig. On one hand, praise is given to the quality of their sourced whiskey and especially their distillery tour experience. As for criticism, this primarily manifests in pricing woes. The once-baseline 10-year? $70, please. The 12-year Bespoke Rye? That’ll be $130. The 15-year…
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Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban Scoresheet & Review
Finished whisky is huge. It’s to the point that if a household brand doesn’t have at least one finished product, then it makes them an outlier. The process, where a whisky is matured and then dumped into a different cask, has supposedly drawn the ire of some whisky purists (I’ve…
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Maker’s Mark Private Select Batch #2 Scoresheet & Review
For the longest time, Maker’s Mark didn’t spring to mind when I thought “worth a premium.” I regarded the Loretto-based company as one that could charge more than its competition because they had a unique bottle design with their red wax. But it works. Maker’s Mark is a top-selling spirits…
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Booker’s (2020-02 “Boston Batch”) Scoresheet & Review
In my previous post, I looked at the first Booker’s batch of 2020 with disappointment. Although the whiskey itself is solid, the retail pricing (in Florida) is anything but. I ended the review saying I’d have no reservations accepting a pour, but if you throw cost into the equation, then…
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Calumet Farm 10-Year Single Rack Black Scoresheet & Review
Whiskey has recently gotten big. Like, real big. This is especially so for bourbon, which is going through a boom that seems to have no end in sight. One of the least surprising results of this explosion in popularity is the rise of new brands. It’s to the point that,…
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