Christopher Null
Palm Republic Rum is part of a new vanguard of rum brands looking to bring ultra-high quality spirits to the market at a reasonable price. The secret seems to be smart blending: Source high-grade barrels from various locales and put them together to create a sophisticated finished product. This brand happens to be co-founded by…
Dewar’s Champions Edition, which celebrates golf and the U.S. Open, enters its sixth year with the launch of Champions Edition 2026, inspired by the terrain of the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, which was finished in Cabernet Franc red wine casks from Hamptons-based winery the Wölffer Estate. Dewar’s The Champions Edition 19 Years Old (2026) Review I’ve…
Compass Box’s Hedonism became an annually released whisky in 2023 (this is our first taste since that happened), and in 2026, it got a celebrity backer, too. Actress Karen Gillan is “the muse” for the label, created by artist Emma Hack. Hedonism was Compass Box’s first whisky ever, launched in 2000, and it remains a…
Wyoming Whiskey’s National Parks-focused releases continue with the fifth official installment in the series, A Tribute to the Tetons, honoring the 97th anniversary of Grand Teton National Park. If you’re wondering why annual release #4 came out in 2024 and #5 is arriving in 2026 it’s because last year’s release, Acadia Edition, was an outlier…
It’s been a decade since we last reviewed a Shock Top beer, a ten-year stretch that has seen the wheat beer specialist undergo a full rebrand/redesign — and now the launch of a wildly high abv bruiser to join the brewery’s collection. At 9.6% abv, it’s the booziest Shock Top release ever made, essentially the…
The wine country in Texas Hill Country, situated in and around the town of Fredericksburg, is booming. Every time I travel here I’m greeted by a new tasting room, fresh vineyards, and more revelers looking to enjoy the state’s rapidly growing (and improving) wine scene. A recent Saturday took us to three wineries in the…
Spirits merchant The Whisky Exchange is following up its Seasons Series with a new set of releases, this time linked to the 12 signs of the Zodiac. The releases will drop in three sets of four — all single casks of single malt Scotches sourced by The Whisky Exchange — each honoring the star signs of…
It’s a full dozen Blood Oaths we’ve taken now, and we have the scars to prove it. The Lux Row-produced series‘s 2016 release features another unique finishing regimen, this one including a portion of the spirit concluding its aging in Italian Montepulciano and sangiovese wine casks. The base spirit is a blend of three whiskeys,…
Note up front that this bottling of friulano is a distinctly different wine than the standard Friulano from Livio Felluga, based in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia area in northern Italy. Sigar was “a farmer nicknamed for his love of smoking [who] placed his hopes in the sky as he tended to the harvest of vines planted…
It’s been five years since we first reviewed Mingle Mocktails, a fruit-forward booze alternative that we found, well, perfectly fine for a picnic or a teenager’s birthday party. Since then, Mingle has broadened its lineup to include Mingle Mood, a collection of canned mocktails that include lion’s mane, ashwagandha, and L-theanine, all sweetened with organic…