Review: 10th Street Single Malt Peated
So, we’ve established that 10th Street is a peated single malt. So: Where might 10th Street be? Dufftown? Glasgow? How about San Jose, California. Here, a group of former engineers are working to unabashedly deconstruct the whisky of Islay, and to do that they’re importing peat from Scotland (local barley is used), using it to…
Review: Slane Irish Whiskey Spiked Doughnuts
It’s Irish Coffee Day… and what goes better with Irish Coffee than a nice doughnut? Let’s take that one step further: How about an Irish whiskey-spiked doughnut, courtesy of Slane Irish Whiskey today and New York-based Dough Doughnuts? The concept isn’t difficult. The bakery has produced a trio of doughnut styles, all infused with Slane…
Review: Egan’s Centenary Irish Whiskey
The Egan’s Irish Whiskey brand has been on a tear of late — and made a surprise appearance as our #2 top whiskey of 2019 with its Legacy Reserve II bottling. Now Egan’s is out with a new edition built to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the passing of co-founder Henry Egan, “a spirit…
Review: The Bitter Housewife Orange, Cardamon, and Old Fashioned Bitters, Plus Bitters & Soda
The Bitter Housewife is a fanciful name for a new line of products clearly not being developed by a housewife at all but by a savvy entrepreneur. I met owner Genevieve Brazelton at a recent event and found her to not even be a little bit bitter, but rather quite effusive about her burgeoning product…
Review: Larga Vida XO Rum 2019 Edition
A sunset with a jumping dolphin on the label, and a speedboat cutting through the waves as a stopper? This can only mean one thing, right? We’re drinking rum built for partying. Surprise, surprise, though: Larga Vida isn’t your daddy’s blender fodder. This is high-end, complex stuff, designed by the co-founder of the Flaviar booze…
Review: A Duo of Sebastiani Cabernets, 2020 Releases
A pair of new cabernet sauvignon releases from Sonoma’s venerable Sebastiani (now part of the Foley empire): 2017 Sebastiani Cabernet Sauvignon North Coast – A straightforward cab (with grapes from both Sonoma and Lake Counties), this wine is youthful and focused more on fruit than wood. “Juicy” is an understatement, with aggressive fruit tempering and…
Review: Glen Moray Elgin Classic Cabernet Cask Finish and 21 Years Old Portwood Finish
Perennially underrated Glen Moray recently dropped two new single malt expressions, one a cabernet sauvignon wine barrel-finished version of its NAS Elgin Classic, the other an ultra-high-end 21 year old, finished in Port pipes. Let’s give them a spin, each in turn. Glen Moray Elgin Classic Cabernet Cask Finish – The follow up to last…
Review: 2016 Adobe Road Shift Sonoma County Red Wine
Like cars? Check out Adobe Road’s Shift, a wine with a gearshift knob on top and a five-speed shifter — etched metal with carbon fiber underneath — that serves as a label. Clearly a ton of money has been spent on the bottle, but what about what’s inside, which is a Sonoma-born blend of…
