Bodegas Lustau is a sherry wine producer in Jerez - they collaborated with Midleton Distillery to create this sherry-finished Redbreast whisky.

A bold 5 year age statement is the biggest point of interest here - heavily peated whiskies can definitely be good at a young age.

This is grown, malted, fermented, distilled, aged, and bottled all at the distillery and its farm. A true barley-to-bottle single malt.

Using a 'Solera' vat, Glenfiddich maintains consistency for its 15 year old single malt via a sort of in-house blending process.

Because of the price and the brand's marketing, we know this is a product targeted toward mixed drinks. How will it hold up neat?

These finishes are all virgin oak barrels, and include Mizunara, French oak, and toasted American oak.

Concerning the maturation on this 12 year old bottle - it's generally a mixture of ex-bourbon casks and ex-sherry casks.

Old Forester "1915," a popular homemade blend of two of Old Forester's Whisky Row bottlings: 1910 'Old Fine Whisky' and 1920 'Prohibition Style.’

One of the most reasonably priced 18 year old Scotch whiskies.

While many American malt whiskies use a mashbill contained 100% malted barley, that isn't the case here - we only have 51% malt

We have a bottling that's a few years old - it came before their latest rebrand, which took place around 2020.

Some will grieve the move away from the old vintage-stated bottles, but the distillery still seems to be committed to quality.

For a whisky to be truly organic, the entire production process has to be changed and regulated.

The rights to the brand were acquired with the Old Fitzgerald brand by Heaven Hill in the 1990s; this product didn't come to market until the 2010s, though.

This incorporates an additional finishing cask into the maturation process; in this case, it's Pedro Ximenez-seasoned sherry casks.

The least common of the three types of 12 year Macallan bottlings, this Triple Cask was previously known as the 'Fine Oak' 12 Year Old.

One interesting feature of the Teaninich distillery is its use of a hammer mill and mash filter - this is a relatively unique setup in Scotland.

This one is proofed down to 47.2% ABV, or 94.4 proof. Will it be able to deliver enough flavor at that strength?

Independently bottled Caol Ila has become quite expensive in recent years, despite its relative abundance.

While Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottlings from Campbeltown are less common, we still get a few casks from Glen Scotia from time to time.