Review: Chattanooga Whiskey Founder’s 12th Anniversary Blend
Every year Chattanooga Whiskey celebrates its anniversary with what else: a special edition whiskey. This 12th installment is described as a look at the “past, present, and future” of the Tennessee-based distillery’s various endeavors, with three primary components in the solera-style mix. Here’s what the finished product looks like (which is a lot like 2023’s version):…
Review: Doladira Aperitivo
Summertime is spritz time, and there’s a new, lower sugar aperitivo on the market looking to bring some Alpine influence to that most refreshing of warm weather cocktails. Doladira’s creator, Meredith Erickson, first teased an early version of the product as a Rhubarb Elixir in her 2019 cookbook, Alpine Cooking, but its popularity with readers…
Review: Garrison Brothers Lady Bird Bourbon (2024)
Texans love Lady Bird Johnson, but few go so far as to name a product line after the famous First Lady. Garrison Brothers‘ highly limited Lady Bird Bourbon celebrates Lady Bird’s commitment to the environment and Texas wildflowers with its purple wax dip and flower-encrusted bottle band, but what’s inside the bottle is arguably the…
A Tour of Rias Baixas Through 3 Wines, 2024 Releases
Ready to get nerdy on Spanish albarino? Rias Baixas is ground zero for the grape, and today we look at the wine from three different angles, specifically three different subregions within Rias Baixas: O Rosal, Soutomaior, and Val do Salnés. Let’s see what these wines can do. 2022 Terras Gauda O Rosal Rias Baixas –…
Review: Templeton Fortitude Bourbon
Templeton made its modern name in the late aughts with sourced rye, a tribute to the brand’s pre-Prohibition heritage. It wasn’t until 2018 that they began distilling their own whiskeys, including Fortitude Bourbon, which debuted earlier this year as the company’s first house-distilled expression and its first bourbon offering. Named to honor the 352 resilient…
Review: 2021 Booker Wines Harvey & Harriet
We last saw this Paso Robles-born cabernet blend in the 2019 vintage, and two years of time have changed only a little. Though its a budget-priced bottling, the wine pours on layers of dark, black fruit, layered with spices and a late-game apple skin quality that evokes memories of mulled wine. Perhaps a bit thinner…
Review: The Cocktail Collection RTDs, Complete Lineup
Ready for more bottled cocktails? I mean, real cocktails, ready to drink? The Cocktail Collection (“TCC”) uses (mostly) big name brands to serve as the core of its six-product lineup, running the gamut of some of today’s most popular cocktails. There’s no funny business here — like the use of carbonation to make a flat drink into…
Review: Chardonnays of Trapiche and Mascota Vineyards, 2024 Releases
We’ve spent a reasonable amount of time over the 18 months reviewing and investigating all sorts of wines from Argentina, from rose to the country’s flagship varietal malbec and everywhere else in between, and there appears to be no stoppage in the increased velocity of new releases. This time around, we are taking a closer…
