This is the second of three reviews of whiskey samples provided to us by our new friends at Master of Malt. For those not familiar with Master of Malt, they are a specialist retailer of fine malt wisky established in 1985. They offer low prices & next day delivery. They […]
When we were first approached by Master of Malt about accepting some free whisky samples, all they asked is that we provide links to their website , Facebook page, and Twitter feed when we post our review of the whiskies they send. This was a perfectly timed solicitation […]
Two weeks ago, we received an email from Master of Malt, a UK based whisky retailer, asking us if we’d be interested in trying some of their whiskies, and then posting a
G-LO promised it was coming and today it finally arrived. Its been a few months since G-LO nominated me for acceptance into the ranks of the few, the proud, the Maker’s Mark Ambassadors. For the past six-eight years, bourbons have been my go-to elixir. I first started drinking […]
G-LO was kind enough to share his copy of 101 Whiskies to Try before Your Die during one of our research sessions. While we each compiled our list of whiskies that we had already sampled we zeroed in on a couple (Amrut Fusion and the Mackmyra) that would […]
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The Eagle Rare 17 is part of Buffalo Trace’s Antique Collection, which also includes the Sazerac Rye 18 (45% ABV), George T. Stagg Bourbon (71.5% ABV), William Larue Weller Bourbon (63.3% ABV), and Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Rye (63.45% ABV). Compared to the other whiskies in this collection, […]
At a Macallan event, the brand representative had defined a pour as the measure of the company. So, at an abbreviated assembly of the Kipling Road Society, if one member should entertain a “short” pour should the host take offense? Or, rather should the host accept the short […]
On my way to a client visit, I had the great misfortune of arriving far too early. In order to pass the time, I was forced to peruse the shelves of the wine & spirits store that was in the lower level of the business park. It seems […]
At my local liquor mart, I came across a bottle of Bruichladdich Rocks. Now, I am quite partial to Bruichladdich, a distillery with a long history. The distillery was built in 1881 in westernmost part of the island of Islay with a state-of-the-art design that used tall and […]
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