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Review: Highland Park 18 Years Old Viking Pride (2024)
Drinkhacker was just a baby blog in 2008 when Chris last tasted the entire range of age-stated Highland Park expressions. Even with the 25-year and the 40-year (!) on the table, he kept going back to this bottle, the comparatively pedestrian 18-year-old. Today, this elder teen sits right in the middle of the Orkney Islands…
Review: Aberlour Double Cask 12, 16, and A’bunadh Batch 79 (2024)
We’ve tackled the lineup from Speyside single malt-maker Aberlour periodically over the last decade, but our very first taste of the distillery came way back in 2009 with an impressive travel retail bottling (long since discontinued) and Batch 26 of the distillery’s cask strength sherry bomb, A’bunadh. (We also visited in person!) The latter remains…
Review: Karbach Hopadillo Juicy IPA
Karbach’s Hopadillo is mainstay beer offering in Texas (reportedly the best-selling IPA in the state for 11 years), and now you can punch up that IPA character even further with the addition of Hopadillo Juicy. Hopadillo Juicy is a “Texas India Pale Ale made with two row pale malt, flaked wheat, light crystal, and flaked…
Review: El Tequileno Anejo Gran Reserva
While El Tequileño recently dropped an ultra-luxe ($800) extra anejo offering, samples evaporated before we could get our hands on one. In lieu of that coverage, we bring you this look at the distillery’s Anejo Gran Reserva offering, which is made from Highlands age that is distilled and reportedly aged for a minimum of 18…
Review: Wines of San Felice, 2024 Releases
San Felice is a busy Tuscan winery that we’ve covered numerous times previously, and today we take a spin with three 2024 reds, all heavy-duty premium offerings. Let’s dig in. 2019 San Felice Campogiovanni Brunello di Montalcino – Who doesn’t love Brunello? Paired with a hearty steak or some other meal of serious gravity? Well,…
Review: Burnt Church Bluffton Whiskey
The road of the American craft whiskey movement was paved by craft beer. The spirit of craft beer and whiskey are similar, but in their respective infancies, they were not exactly equal. Craft beer was a response to a rather bland and homogenous beer industry. Craft beer needed to exist because “big beer” was uninspiring.…
Review: Wines of 90+ Cellars, Summer 2024 Releases
The wine world continues its march toward delivery and subscription services at a steady, measured pace. Since our last foray into the enterprise, a few have folded while others made it through the pandemic and other economic challenges with success and growth. 90+ Cellars provides a refreshingly unique angle in a market where surprises and…
Review: Tenango Rum
Guatemala is home to a number of top-shelf rums, including Zacapa, Botran, and more. The latest arrival is a new brand called Tenango Rum, launched by restauranteur Sophia Deleon, who has deep Guatemalan heritage. Made completely in the country, this rum is column-distilled from molasses and aged in American oak for an unspecified length of…
