The Top 10 Tequilas and Mezcals of 2024
Tequila! If you’re not envisioning Pee-Wee Herman right now, something’s wrong with you. Or maybe the problem is you’re just thirsty. Well, we can fix that for you, thanks to our guide to the 10 best tequilas (and mezcals) we tasted in 2024. So without further ado, grab some chips and salsa and dive in.…
Review: Wyoming Whiskey National Parks No. 4 Limited Edition Bourbon (2024)
Craft bourbon pioneers Wyoming Whiskey recently dropped the fourth installment in their limited-edition National Parks Series. The previous release honored Grand Teton National Park, but for this latest offering, the Kirby-based distillery is returning to perhaps the most recognizable stretch of federally protected wilderness, Yellowstone. In particular, they are celebrating one of its most well-known…
Review: Fresh-Port Wine Topper with Airgone
There are lots of ways to preserve a half-consumed bottle of wine, but one of the most reliable is to use argon gas, which is heavier than air and provides an invisible blanket of protection between the wine in a bottle and the oxygen above it. Fresh-Port is a minor twist on this theme, a…
Review: Holmes Cay Infinity Cask
Holmes Cay is best known for its vintage-dated, single cask rum offerings, but with the new Infinity Cask, we’re getting something entirely different: A blend of aged rums from 13 distilleries in 7 countries, ranging from 20 to a whopping 47 years old. (Production took place between 1976 and 2003.) How this rum came to…
Review: J. Mattingly 1845 Bourbon 6 Years Old
J. Mattingly 1845 hasn’t been around for quite 179 years, but the brand does claim heritage dating back to that era. Creator Jeff Mattingly is a descendant of distilling pioneer John Graves Mattingly, who’d be 201 years old today if he was still working the stills. J. Mattingly 1845 Bourbon 6 Years Old — also…
Book Review: Larousse Cocktails
Nearly a century after its publication, Larousse Gastronomique remains a pillar of French cuisine. Alongside Auguste Escoffier’s Ma Cuisine and Elizabeth David’s French Provincial Cooking, it helped usher in a new era of cookbooks, reinvigorating European culinary tradition. Larousse Cocktails, originally published in French in 2019, has finally received its slightly overdue English translation and…
Review: Buffalo Trace Antique Collection 2024 Edition
Arguably the most unicorny of unicorn annual releases is here: Buffalo Trace’s five-whiskey Antique Collection release, spanning its best and brightest bourbon and rye offerings, all offered with either advanced age, at cask strength, or both. Regular readers know we’ve been doing this for a while — this is year #17 for us and the…
Review: Thresh & Winnow American Single Malt 8 Years Old
Thresh & Winnow is produced by Chicago-based distillery Koval and is a sub-brand being used to represent their limited, organic, high-end offerings. In this case, we are trying a single-cask, organic, 8-year-old, American Single Malt whiskey. The barley was grown by local farmers outside Chicago, near the Wisconsin border, and the whiskey was aged in…
