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Review #546 - Single Cask Nation Ben Nevis 11 Year Single Cask
Me, My Wife & Whisky 5/5/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 5/5/25

Review #546 - Single Cask Nation Ben Nevis 11 Year Single Cask

While that first fill sherry influence could add some dark fruits, the wood spice element might be a bit more mild than a European oak cask.

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Review #545 - Glen Fohdry Fion Frangach French Oak Cask
Me, My Wife & Whisky 5/4/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 5/4/25

Review #545 - Glen Fohdry Fion Frangach French Oak Cask

This Glen Fohdry titled 'Fion Frangach' is a non-age stated single malt that employs a double maturation.

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Review #544 - Single Cask Nation Glen Moray 13 Year Single Cask
Me, My Wife & Whisky 5/2/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 5/2/25

Review #544 - Single Cask Nation Glen Moray 13 Year Single Cask

The spirit spent 5 years in a first fill Spanish oak Oloroso sherry cask - quite a long finishing period.

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Review #543 - Found North Batch 010
Me, My Wife & Whisky 5/1/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 5/1/25

Review #543 - Found North Batch 010

A Canadian whisky-style take on an American wheated bourbon.

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Review #542 - Lochlea Ploughing Edition First Crop
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/30/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/30/25

Review #542 - Lochlea Ploughing Edition First Crop

Lochlea uses unpeated distillate in their whiskies, but for their Ploughing Edition, they created a peated whisky through the use of peated casks.

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Review #541 - Lochlea Harvest Edition First Crop
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/29/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/29/25

Review #541 - Lochlea Harvest Edition First Crop

The Harvest Edition of Lochlea's limited edition Seasonal Releases celebrates the end of summer, when barley is harvested for use in the following year's whisky production.

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Review #540 - Lochlea Fallow Edition First Crop
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/28/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/28/25

Review #540 - Lochlea Fallow Edition First Crop

Fallow in farming terms refers to unsown land, which is not used for planting in a given season.

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Review #539 - Booker's 2024-01 'Springfield Batch'
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/28/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/28/25

Review #539 - Booker's 2024-01 'Springfield Batch'

The age of the bourbon here is similar to most other Booker's releases: 7 years, 7 months, and 8 days, in this case.

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Review #538 - GlenDronach 15 Year Revival (Pre-2015)
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/27/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/27/25

Review #538 - GlenDronach 15 Year Revival (Pre-2015)

In theory, some of this whisky could have been up to 21 years old if the bottling year was close to 2017.

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Review #537 - New Riff Headliner (2024)
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/25/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/25/25

Review #537 - New Riff Headliner (2024)

In 2024, to both celebrate their 10th anniversary and benefit local charities, New Riff released a limited bottling called 'Headliner.'

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Review #536 - Elements of Islay Cask Edit
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/24/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/24/25

Review #536 - Elements of Islay Cask Edit

This whisky is a blend of two Islay single malts, Laphroaig and Caol Ila, with each distillate making up roughly 50% of the vatting.

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Review #535 - Elijah Craig 9 Year Private Barrel - Kroger Pick
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/23/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/23/25

Review #535 - Elijah Craig 9 Year Private Barrel - Kroger Pick

This pick was aged for 9 years before bottling, and it comes with a hefty cask strength of 66.25% ABV.

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Review #534 - Old Forester Single Barrel Barrel Strength Bourbon - Kroger Pick
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/22/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/22/25

Review #534 - Old Forester Single Barrel Barrel Strength Bourbon - Kroger Pick

Warehouse K seems to be a popular pick for 'favorite warehouse' from Old Forester.

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Review #533 - Ardnamurchan Ardnamerica Tour Bottling (2024)
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/21/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/21/25

Review #533 - Ardnamurchan Ardnamerica Tour Bottling (2024)

Just 3 casks went into this vatting: 2 of them contained peated spirit, while the third cask was Ardnamurchan's unpeated style.

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Review #532 - Stagg Jr Batch 16 (2021)
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/20/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/20/25

Review #532 - Stagg Jr Batch 16 (2021)

Today, we're winding the clock back to the summer of 2021, when Batch 16 was released.

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Review #531 - George T. Stagg (2023)
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/18/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/18/25

Review #531 - George T. Stagg (2023)

Partnering with Colonel E.H. Taylor of the Old Fashioned Copper distillery, Stagg worked as a salesman, selling barrels of bourbon.

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Review #530 - Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/16/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/16/25

Review #530 - Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey

Many celebrity spirits are over-hyped and overpriced; this one comes at a reasonable cost, though, around $25.

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Review #529 - Laphroaig Cairdeas White Port and Madeira
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/15/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/15/25

Review #529 - Laphroaig Cairdeas White Port and Madeira

The 2023 Cairdeas release from Laphroaig saw the use of both Madeira wine and White Port casks

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Review #528 - Elijah Craig Barrel Proof C924
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/14/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/14/25

Review #528 - Elijah Craig Barrel Proof C924

Heaven Hill's tri-annual Elijah Craig release - the Barrel Proof bourbon, a bottling which arrives in January, May, and September annually.

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Review #527 - Longrow Red 7 Year Pinot Noir Cask Matured
Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/13/25 Me, My Wife & Whisky 4/13/25

Review #527 - Longrow Red 7 Year Pinot Noir Cask Matured

This isn't the first time we've seen a Pinot Noir release from Longrow - it's one of the more common cask types used in their aging.

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