“I’m laughing because I know the secret of life. The secret of life is that I have validated my existence” – Carlos Santana Fortaleza is a tequila brand that surely needs no introduction. To know it ...

Are we finished with finishes? Definitely not, if current trends are any indication. While cask finishes may be old hat to the Scotch whisky aficionados in our audience, they remain a novelty in the ...

I quite like the look of this bottle of whisky; the bottle itself has got a nice heft to it, and it features a small brass emblem that’s set into the glass which I think adds a nice touch of charm and ...

Springbank Distillery. The tiny constrained traditional distillery on the edge of the Scotch map. It had been a whisky secret for decades. In the 2010s it began to increase in popularity until such ...

Greetings from your resident booze bibliophile! In my quest for knowledge, I’ve read an ungodly number of books on American whiskey and beverage alcohol history. It’s fair to say that almost of all of ...

I asked myself this question as I pondered several opportunities for the Malt team to be involved in selecting single barrels, casks, or whatever they might be called in your locale. While some folks ...

If someone says to you “I’m drinking Scotch made on an island,” your first guess for its provenance would probably be an Islay distillery. Yes, Islay is best known for its briny, iodine heavy, burnt ...

“It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.” – Francesco Petrarch We begin this review of Russell’s Reserve Single ...

When I think about the better bourbons I’ve tasted, I’ve realized they’re not the ones that have spent 20+ years aging in barrel. In fact, when it comes to my preferred bourbons, the age is in the ...

A positive outcome of the social isolation required to combat COVID has been the proliferation of online whisky tastings. Many groups have returned to in person tastings or tried the (quite frankly ...

I’ve written more than a couple of articles challenging the state of the industry recently, be it the green credentials or the implications of the secondary market on the pleasure of drinking whisky.

Aloha, y’all. Have some bourbon, braddah! Today we’ll be considering a Kentucky whiskey with a Hawaiian accent. The relative lack of whiskey distilling in Hawaii meant that I was confined mostly to ...