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Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Elijah Craig Barrel Proof: Whisky Advocate's 2017 Whisky of the Year — 12 Years at Cask Strength, No Water Added

Whisky Advocate's 2017 Whisky of the Year (Batch B517). Named after Reverend Elijah Craig, an 18th-century Baptist preac...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Tomintoul 16 Year Old: The Gentle Dram — Scotland's Highest Village Speysider, Unhurried at 40% - Scotch Review

7 Review

Single Malt

Tomintoul 16 Year Old: The Gentle Dram — Scotland's Highest Village Speysider, Unhurried at 40%

Known as 'The Gentle Dram' — from the highest village in the Scottish Highlands. Founded 1965 with four steam-heated sti...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

7 Review

Single Malt

Connemara Peated Single Malt: Ireland's Only Peated Whiskey — Double Distilled Bog Peat from Cooley's Rebel Distillery

Ireland's only modern peated single malt — a genuinely rare style. Created by Cooley Distillery, founded 1987 by John Te...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Glengoyne 18 Year Old: Scotland's Slowest Distillation — Unpeated, 100% Sherry Oak, Straddling the Highland Line - Scotch Review

8 Review

Single Malt

Glengoyne 18 Year Old: Scotland's Slowest Distillation — Unpeated, 100% Sherry Oak, Straddling the Highland Line

Scotland's slowest distillation — air-dried, unpeated barley through unhurried copper pot stills. The only fully unpeate...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Bulleit 10 Year Old: Tom Bulleit's Frontier Recipe Aged — The High-Rye Bourbon with 28% Rye at 91.2 Proof - Bourbon Review

7 Review

Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Bulleit 10 Year Old: Tom Bulleit's Frontier Recipe Aged — The High-Rye Bourbon with 28% Rye at 91.2 Proof

Tom Bulleit left a legal career in 1987 to revive a frontier whiskey recipe from his great-great-grandfather Augustus Bu...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Port Charlotte 10 Year Old - Scotch Review

9 Review

Single Malt

Port Charlotte 10 Year Old

Bruichladdich's heavily peated alter ego — 40ppm, ten years in American and French wood, and a sweetness that makes the ...

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Duncan Cairns April 10, 2026

Redbreast 21 Year Old: The Pinnacle of Pot Still Irish Whiskey — Jim Murray's Irish Whiskey of the Year, 21 Years of Patience - Irish Review

9.5 Review

Single Pot Still

Redbreast 21 Year Old: The Pinnacle of Pot Still Irish Whiskey — Jim Murray's Irish Whiskey of the Year, 21 Years of Patience

Probably the most awarded Irish whiskey in history. Jim Murray's Irish Whiskey of the Year and World's Best Pot Still Wh...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Four Roses Small Batch Select: Six of Ten Recipes at 104 Proof — Non-Chill Filtered, Jim Rutledge's Legacy Extended - Bourbon Review

8 Review

Kentucky Straight Bourbon

Four Roses Small Batch Select: Six of Ten Recipes at 104 Proof — Non-Chill Filtered, Jim Rutledge's Legacy Extended

Four Roses uniquely combines 2 mashbills with 5 proprietary yeast strains, yielding 10 distinct recipes. Small Batch Sel...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Nikka Coffey Malt: 100% Malted Barley Through a Column Still — The Whisky That Shouldn't Exist, But Does Beautifully - Japanese Review

8 Review

Malt Whisky

Nikka Coffey Malt: 100% Malted Barley Through a Column Still — The Whisky That Shouldn't Exist, But Does Beautifully

Column stills are designed for grain whisky — running 100% malted barley through one is rare worldwide. But Nikka does i...

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Ash Carrington April 10, 2026

Macallan 18 Year Old Sherry Oak: Easter Elchies House — Exclusively Sherry Seasoned European Oak Since 1824 - Scotch Review

8.5 Review

Single Malt

Macallan 18 Year Old Sherry Oak: Easter Elchies House — Exclusively Sherry Seasoned European Oak Since 1824

The most iconic expression from the world's most valuable single malt brand. Matured exclusively in hand-picked European...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Highland Park 18 Year Old Viking Pride: Best Spirit in the World — Orkney Heather Peat and Sherry Since 1798 - Scotch Review

9 Review

Single Malt

Highland Park 18 Year Old Viking Pride: Best Spirit in the World — Orkney Heather Peat and Sherry Since 1798

Named Best Spirit in the World by F. Paul Pacult's Spirit Journal. The most northerly Scotch whisky distillery, founded ...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026

Writer's Tears Copper Pot: Ireland's Lost 'Champagne' Whiskey Revived — Single Pot Still and Single Malt, No Grain - Irish Review

7 Review

Irish Blend (Pot Still + Malt)

Writer's Tears Copper Pot: Ireland's Lost 'Champagne' Whiskey Revived — Single Pot Still and Single Malt, No Grain

A recreation of a lost 19th-century style — 60% single pot still and 40% single malt, no grain whiskey whatsoever. The o...

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Joe Whitfield April 10, 2026