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.
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.
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.
Review #543 - Found North Batch 010
A Canadian whisky-style take on an American wheated bourbon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
Review #532 - Stagg Jr Batch 16 (2021)
Today, we're winding the clock back to the summer of 2021, when Batch 16 was released.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.