Review: Hiyo Sparking Social Tonic, Complete Lineup
The sober-curious drink market continues to expand, featuring nootropics as the agent of mood-enhancement to forego the detrimental affect of alcohol, with the added claim of increased health benefits. (FYI – The FDA are warning against the proliferation of unsubstantiated claims surrounding nootropics. So to each their own.) Nootropics are a general category of drugs…
Review: Mythology Needle Pig Gin
If you thought spirits branding couldn’t get more inventive, you were very wrong. According to their press materials, Colorado’s Mythology Distillery is a small craft operation inspired by an Alaskan ski trip and a philosophy that we each form our own mythology through our travels and experiences. How that relates to a line of craft…
Review: Lazzaroni Amaro
Lazzaroni is best known as the creator of an impressive amaretto — in fact, the inventor of amaretto — but it turns out the Saronno-based operation also makes an amazing amaro, too, distinguished by its dark, nearly black bottle. There’s not a lot of info about its ingredients — made from a recipe that dates to…
Review: George Dickel Tennessee Whiskey Bottled in Bond 13 Years Old (2021)
In 2019, George Dickel impressed us so much with its 13-year-old Bottled in Bond that we put it in our Top 10 Whiskeys list for the year. In 2020, the distillery produced a very solid, if somewhat less balanced and slightly younger, sequel. Now, round three is hitting the shelves. Perhaps in response to some…
Review: J.R. Ewing Private Reserve Bourbon
J.R. Ewing might be fictional — and famously got shot — but that isn’t going to stop the man from releasing his own bourbon, a vanity project that is actually bottled in Dallas, Texas. J.R.’s bourbon launched in 2014 in a handful of markets. The distillate’s origins are unstated, but it’s said to be from…
Recipe: Oaxaca Old Fashioned
In the grand scheme of things, agave-based spirits haven’t been featured in many cocktails until pretty recently. Tequila went in a Margarita and the occasional Sunrise. Mezcal, if it was even on the shelf, went in a Paloma, and that was about the extent of it. Like so many cocktail trends, we can thank the…
Review: Chateau de Pellehaut Reserve Le Bel Age Armagnac
Pellehaut is an Armagnac producer with which I was unfamiliar before receiving a sample of its Reserve Le Bel Age bottling, which is made from a blend of ugni blanc and folle blanche grapes planted between 1990 and 1992. Aged for an average of 10 years in barrel, it isn’t billed as an XO though…
Review: GlenAllachie 14 Years Old Port Single Cask 2006 #7862
GlenAllachie’s relaunch hit the U.S. in earnest a few years ago. Now fans of the whisky can dig deeper into its archives with this single cask bottling, which spends 14 years in Port pipes. Just 331 bottles were turned out from this cask, #7862. We received a small sample to check out. Let’s dig in.…
