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Four Bourbons To Buy This Fall 24 Aug 2013 | 02:26 am
All of these will be sold in the U.S. I’ve tried them all. These are all new and will be released over the next month or so. They are the best I’ve tasted this year (so far). In alphabetical order: E...
Whisky Advocate’s Fall Issue Top 10 Buying Guide Reviews 20 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Here is your sneak preview of Whisky Advocate’s fall issue Buying Guide: the top 10 whiskies reviewed. We begin with #10 and end with the highest rated whiskey. #10: Few Rye, 46.5%, $60 Solid, chunk...
Some new whiskies I like, and some I don’t (part 2) 16 Aug 2013 | 01:35 am
Earlier this week I offered my thoughts on some new bourbon and Tennessee whiskeys. In this post, I address some new scotch whiskies, Indian whiskies, as well as some more bourbons that I’ve recently ...
Some new whiskeys I like, and some I don’t like (part 1) 12 Aug 2013 | 11:58 pm
Whiskeys might be more expensive (and perhaps harder to find) these days but, after tasting my way through some new releases, it’s pretty clear that there are still plenty of high quality whiskeys com...
5 Things You Don’t Know about MGPI, America’s most misunderstood distillery 10 Aug 2013 | 12:28 am
Fred Minnick gives you a Whisky Advocate exclusive look behind the scenes at the MGPI/LDI/Seagram’s distillery in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. When I requested an interview with MGP Ingredients master dist...
The downside to single cask bottlings 31 Jul 2013 | 05:31 pm
Scotch distillers do it. Bourbon distillers do it. For many independent bottlers, it’s their livelihood: bottling whisky one barrel at a time. This is generally thought to be a good thing by most whi...
Million Pound Whisky 23 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
Gavin Smith reports on the new “Paterson Collection;” a dozen unique bottles of The Dalmore for an asking price of £987,500. It had to come at some point: the “million pound whisky.” And here it is. ...
What’s up at Deanston? 19 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm
Ian Buxton talks to Burn Stewart’s master blender Ian MacMillan about the new moves at Deanston. To be honest, it’s not a distillery we hear very much about. To be blunt, that’s for the very good re...
R.I.P. Elmer T. Lee 17 Jul 2013 | 02:20 am
The bourbon industry lost a great man today: Elmer T. Lee. I first met Elmer back in 1997, when he gave me a personal tour of the (then) Ancient Age distillery. He was very knowledgeable, kind, funny,...
Angel’s Envy Distillery Breaks Ground 11 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
Whisky Advocate contributor Fred Minnick reports on the new Angel’s Envy distillery. Louisville Distilling Company, the maker’s of Angel’s Envy, is turning a former hobo hangout into a $12 million di...
