Drinks Reviews & More
It is not often that the Wall Street Journal profiles a distiller. But it did just this last April when it published a piece on Chris Morris of Labrot & Graham. In part, this was due to Morris’s widely acknowledged
A new Bourbon has hit the market—John B. Stetson. Does this mean that a new distillery has opened—the Stetson Distillery or somesuch? Nope—this is a new brand of Bourbon being sold by Vision Wine & Spirits, LLC of Secaucus, New Jersey. It
Most whiskey drinkers have heard abut the angel’s share—that portion of the spirit that evaporates while the spirit is aging in a cask. Two new products have come to market in the past year that play off that nomenclature—Angel’s Envy and Jim
The label on the bottle was peeling off. Mike, the bartender at Bamonte’s (an ancient Italian Restaurant in Brooklyn, New York), guessed that it was 40 or 50 years old. We couldn’t resist and ordered a small glass of it.
By Ken Wohlrob Attending an event hosted by the Kentucky Bourbon Circle (aka The Kentucky Springs Distilling Co. aka The Jim Beam family) is the whiskey fiend’s equivalent to attending a Business 101 class. The evening has a very instructional
The very smart Drew Long of DCFoodies.com has taken Early Times whiskey and re-aged it to remarkable effect. After seven-and-one-half months of sitting in a new charred oak barrel, the thin, bland Early Times became deep and delicious. We were