Spirit & Cigar reviews

American whiskey

• Badger’s Bluff Fresh Cut Whiskey
• Baker’s Bourbon
• Baker’s Bourbon aged 7 years (batch B-90-001)
• Basil Hayden’s
• Bearded Lady Bourbon
• Bearded Lady Charred Moonshine
• Blanton’s Single Barrel
• Booker’s Bourbon
• Buffalo Trace Bourbon
• Cougar Bourbon
• Eagle Rare 17 Year Old
• Elijah Craig 12 Year Old
• Elijah Craig 18 Year Old
• Elmer T Lee
• Gentleman Jack (by Jack Daniel’s)
• Jack Daniel’s No. 27 Gold Double Barreled Tennessee Whiskey
• Jack Daniel’s Old No 7 1980’s v 2013
• Jack Daniel’s Sinatra Select
• Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Select
• Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Select (Barrel No. 15-2739)
• Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel (Barrel no: 12-0798)
• Jim Beam Devil’s Cut
• Jim Beam Signature Craft 12 year old
• Jim Beam Small Batch with Port
• Johnny Drum Kentucky Bourbon (Green Label)
• Maker’s Mark
• Q&A with Jeff Arnett, Master Distiller at Jack Daniel’s (Tennessee, United States)
• Sazerac 18 Year Old Rye Whiskey
• Sazerac Rye 6 Year Old
• Templeton Rye Signature Reserve
• Twenty Third St Distillery Hybrid Whisk(e)y
• Virgin Bourbon
• Westland American Oak American single malt whiskey
• Westland Peated American single malt whiskey
• Westland Sherry Wood American single malt whiskey
• What the heck is “moonshine”? A look at Melbourne Moonshine, Crazy Uncle Moonshine and Bearded Lady Charred Moonshine
• Wild Turkey Forgiven
• Wild Turkey Longbranch: alright alright alright!
• Wild Turkey Rare Breed
• Wild Turkey Spiced Bourbon

Australian whisky

• A couple of Limeburners: M174 and M84 Western Australian Single Malt Whisky
• Bakery Hill Classic 46% and Classic Cask Strength
• Bakery Hill Double Wood
• Bakery Hill Double Wood (Barrel 7773)
• Bakery Hill Peated Cask Strength
• Chief’s Son Single Malt Whisky from Australia’s Mornington Peninsula: “Standard”, “Pure Malt” and “Sweet Peat”
• Crazy Uncle Moonshine
• Exploring Starward’s Tawny #2 Australian Single Malt Whisky
• Hellyer’s Road 10 year old Slightly Peated
• Hellyer’s Road 12 year old
• Hellyer’s Road 12 year old Tasmanian single malt whisky
• Hellyer’s Road The George Henry’s Legacy Limited Edition
• Hellyers Road Pinot Noir Finish
• Hellyers Road Tasmanian Whisky Cream Liqueur
• Introducing two new Australian single malts by the Corowa Distilling Co: First Drop and Bosque Verde
• Joadja Distillery Ex-Oloroso Cask (batch 4) and Ex-Pedro Ximénez Cask (batch 5) single malts: Two new Aussie sherry bombs
• Launceston Distillery’s Apera and Tawny matured Tasmanian Single Malt Whisky
• Limeburners Barrell M98
• Limeburners Director’s Cut M96
• Limeburners M90 “Director’s Cut”
• Limeburners Peated
• Nant Port Wood
• OveReem Port Cask Matured (Cask Strength, 60%)
• OveReem Sherry Cask Matured (Cask Strength, 60%)
• Starward Apera and Starward Wine Cask
• Sullivan’s Cove American Oak HH0211 and HH130
• Sullivan’s Cove American Oak HH537
• Sullivan’s Cove Double Cask
• Sullivan’s Cove French HH436 and American Oak HH132
• Sullivan’s Cove French Oak Cask HH524
• Sullivan’s Cove French Oak HH0423
• Tasmanian VIP Party for Taste of Melbourne feat. Lark Whisky (13 November 2013)
• Tasting Two Tasmanian Single Malts in Callington Mill Distillery’s “Leap of Faith” Series: Quintessence and Entropy
• The Big Black Cock Whiskey
• Timboon Cask Strength 64.7%
• Timboon Single Malt Whisky
• Twenty Third St Distillery Hybrid Whisk(e)y
• What the heck is “moonshine”? A look at Melbourne Moonshine, Crazy Uncle Moonshine and Bearded Lady Charred Moonshine

Austrian whisky

• Reisetbauer 12 year old
• Reisetbauer 7 year old

Canadian whisky

• Canadian Club (bottled 1982)
• Canadian Club 12 Year Old
• Canadian Club 20 Year Old
• Canadian Club: 1982 versus 2013 bottling
• Crown Royal
• Fireball Cinnamon Flavoured Whisky
• Glenora Glen Breton 10 Year Old
• JP Wiser’s 18 year old
• JP Wisers Triple Barrel

Danish whisky

• Fary Lochan Danish Single Malt Whisky
• Fary Lochan Danish Single Malt Whisky

English whisky

• English Whisky Co, Chapter 6, Unpeated
• Hicks & Healey Cornish Whiskey

French whisky

• Amorik Classic
• Armorik Double Distillation
• Breizh Whisky (Warenghem)

Indian whisky

• Amrut Fusion
• Indri Indian Single Malt Whisky
• Paul John Indian single malt whisky: Brilliance, Classic, Edited, Bold and Peated
• Paul John Oloroso
• Q&A with Paul John single malt (Goa, India)

Irish whiskey

• Bushmills 10 Year Old
• Bushmills 21 year old
• Bushmills Black Bush
• Bushmills Original
• Clontarf 1014 single malt Irish whiskey
• Clontarf Single Malt
• Connemara Peated Single Malt Irish Whiskey
• Green Spot Pot Still Irish Whiskey
• Hyde No 3 The Aras Cask Single Grain
• Hyde No. 4 Rum Finish
• Hyde No. 6 (Cask Strength)
• Jameson Caskmates
• Jameson Irish Whiskey
• Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve 2007
• Jameson Select Reserve
• Jameson Special Reserve 12 Year Old
• Powers Gold Label
• Redbreast 12 Year Old
• Tasting an almighty trinity from Teeling whiskey: Teeling 24 year old single malt, 17 year old single malt and Stout Cask
• Tasting four Irish gems: Jameson Black Barrel, Bushmills Black Bush, Teeling BlackPitts, and Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin
• Teeling “The Revival” 15 year old
• Teeling 21 Year Old Silver Reserve Saturenne Finish
• Teeling Poitin
• Teeling Single Grain Irish Whiskey
• Teeling Small Batch
• Tullamore Dew 12 year old Special Reserve

Japanese whisky

• Akashi Japanese single malt whisky (White Oak Distillery)
• Hakushu Distiller’s Reserve single malt Japanese whisky
• Nikka "from the barrel"
• Nikka All Malt
• Nikka Coffey Grain Whisky
• Nikka Pure Malt Black
• Suntory Yamazaki 18 Year Old
• The Chita Single Grain Japanese whisky
• Yamazaki 12 Year Old

New Zealand whisky

• NZ Whisky Co 1988 Vintage 25 Year Old
• NZ Whisky Co 1989 22 Year Old
• NZ Whisky Co 1990, 1991, 15 year old and Water of Leith
• NZ Whisky Co DoubleWood 10 Year Old
• NZ Whisky Co South Island Single Malt 21 Year Old 1990
• Thomson 18 Year Old
• Thomson 2 Tone
• Thomson 21 Year Old

Scotch whisky – Speyside

• Aberlour A’Bunadh (batch #59)
• Aberlour A’Bunadh Batch 45
• All aboard the Glenfiddich Whisky Wanderer!
• BenRiach 12 year old Sherry Cask
• BenRiach 17 year old “Septendecim”
• Benromach 10 Year Old
• Benromach 10 year old
• Benromach 10 year old 100 proof 57%
• Benromach Cask Strength
• Benromach Château Cissac
• Benromach Organic
• Benromach Peat Smoke
• Benromach Sassicaia
• Benromach Traditional
• Cardhu 12 Year Old
• Glen Grant 10 Year Old
• Glen Grant 16 Year Old
• Glen Grant 1991 19 Year Old (D/T)
• Glen Grant Five Decades
• Glen Grant Major’s Reserve
• GlenDronach 12 Year Old
• Glenfarclas 105 Cask Strength
• Glenfarclas 12 Year Old
• Glenfarclas 12, 15, 21 and 25 year old
• Glenfarclas 15 Year Old
• Glenfarclas 21 Year Old
• Glenfarclas 25 Year Old
• Glenfarclas 25 year old
• Glenfarclas 8 Year Old
• Glenfarclas cask #1270 (dist. 2008, Whisky & Wisdom release, Edition 2)
• Glenfiddich 12 Year Old
• Glenfiddich 12 year old
• Glenfiddich 12, 15 and 18 Year Old
• Glenfiddich 14 Year Old Rich Oak
• Glenfiddich 18 year old 
• Glenfiddich 21 Year Old
• Glenfiddich 30 Year Old
• Glenfiddich Distillery Edition 51%
• Glenlivet 12 Year Old
• Glenlivet 15 Year Old
• Glenlivet 18 Year Old
• Glenlivet 21 Year Old
• Glenlivet 21 year old
• Glenlivet Founders Reserve
• Glenlivet Nadurra 16 Year Old
• Glenlivet Nàdurra Oloroso Matured
• Glenrothes 1968 35 Year Old (D&T)
• Glenrothes 1969 Vintage 40 Year Old (D&T Lonach)
• Glenrothes 1969 Vintage 40 Year Old (D&T, Octave)
• Glenrothes 1988
• Glenrothes 1995 Vintage
• Glenrothes 1998
• Glenrothes 2001 Vintage
• Glenrothes Select Reserve
• McClelland’s Single Malt Whisky
• News flash: Tamdhu releases “120 Anniversary Single Cask Distillery Team Edition”
• Tamdhu 10 year old
• Tamdhu 1969 Vintage 34 Year Old (D&T)
• The Dalmore 12 Year Old
• The Game of Thrones Single Malt Scotch Whisky Collection
• Tomintoul Tlàth

Scotch whisky – Highlands

• A wee taste of Loch Lomond Group’s Glen Scotia and Inchmurrin Scotch whisky
• Ancnoc 12 Year Old
• Ardmore Traditional Cask
• Brora 30 Year Old
• Clynelish 14 Year Old
• Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old
• Dalwhinnie Distiller’s Edition (Distilled 1995)
• Edradour 10 year old
• Glen Deveron 20 year old
• Glenglassaugh Evolution
• Glenglassaugh Revival
• Glenglassaugh Torfa
• Glengoyne 10 Year Old
• Glengoyne 12 year old
• Glengoyne 15 Year Old
• Glengoyne 18 Year Old
• Glengoyne 21 Year Old
• Glengoyne 25 Year Old
• Glengoyne 35 Year Old
• Glengoyne Cask Strength
• Glengoyne Teapot Dram batches #1 and #3
• Glenmorangie Companta
• Glenmorangie Lasanta
• Glenmorangie Nectar D’Or
• Glenmorangie The Duthac
• Glenmorangie The Original
• Macallan 10 Year Old Sherry Oak
• Macallan 12 Year Old Fine Oak
• Macallan 18 Year Old
• Macallan 1824 Series Amber
• Macallan 1824 Series Ruby
• Macallan 1824 Series Sienna
• McClelland’s Single Malt Whisky
• Old Pulteney 12 Year Old
• Old Pulteney 21 Year Old
• Royal Lochnagar Distiller’s Edition
• Teaninich 1983 Vintage 27 Year Old (D&T)
• The Game of Thrones Single Malt Scotch Whisky Collection

Scotch whisky – Islay

• Ardbeg 10 Year Old
• Ardbeg 1974 Vintage 29 Year Old (G&M)
• Ardbeg Ardbog
• Ardbeg Corryvreckan
• Ardbeg Galileo
• Ardbeg Perpetuum
• Ardbeg Uigeadail
• Bowmore “Enigma” 12 year old
• Bowmore 12 Year Old
• Bowmore Small Batch
• Bruichladdich 30 year old (OB, sherry cask, 44.6%, 1986)
• Bruichladdich 32 year old (OB, 48.7%)
• Bruichladdich 32 year old (OB, bourbon cask, 43.7%, 1984)
• Bruichladdich Black Art 4
• Bruichladdich Islay Barley
• Bruichladdich Laddie Classic
• Bruichladdich Laddie Classic Scottish Barley
• Bruichladdich Laddie Eight
• Bruichladdich Octomore 6.1
• Bruichladdich Octomore 7.3 Islay Barley
• Bruichladdich Octomore 7.4 Virgin Oak
• Bruichladdich The Laddie Ten Limited Edition
• Bruichladdich’s “The Three Tens”: The Laddie 10 year old, Port Charlotte 10 year old and Octomore 10 year old
• Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old
• Bunnahabhain 25 Year Old (1987, Adelphi)
• Caol Ila 12 Year Old
• Kilchoman Machir Bay
• Lagavulin 16 Year Old
• Laphroaig 10 Year Old
• Laphroaig PX Cask
• Laphroaig Quarter Cask
• Laphroaig Triple Wood
• McClelland’s Single Malt Whisky
• Port Askaig 100° proof
• Port Charlotte 2007 8 year old CC:01
• Port Charlotte Islay Barley 2008
• Port Charlotte PC 12
• Port Charlotte The Peat Project
• Port Ellen, Elements of Islay Pe5
• Smokehead
• The Game of Thrones Single Malt Scotch Whisky Collection

Scotch whisky – Islands

• A wee taste of Loch Lomond Group’s Glen Scotia and Inchmurrin Scotch whisky
• Arran 14 Year Old
• Highland Park 12, 15, 18, 25 and 30 Year Old
• Highland Park 18 Year Old
• Highland Park 25 Year Old
• Highland Park 30 Year Old
• Highland Park 30 year old (revisited, 3/1/2016)
• Highland Park 40 Year Old
• Highland Park Cask 1140 – HWF038
• Jura Superstition
• Talisker 10 Year Old
• Talisker 18 Year Old
• Talisker 25 Year Old (Bottled 2008)
• Talisker 25 Year Old (Bottled 2011)
• Talisker Storm
• The Game of Thrones Single Malt Scotch Whisky Collection

Scotch whisky – Lowlands

• Auchentoshan Heartwood
• Glenkinchie 12 Year Old
• McClelland’s Single Malt Whisky
• St Magdalene 1982 26 Year Old

Scotch whisky – malt blends

• Big Peat
• Compass Box 3 year old Deluxe
• Compass Box Circus
• Compass Box Enlightenment
• Compass Box Flaming Heart Limited Edition (2015)
• Compass Box Spice Tree
• Compass Box Spice Tree Extravaganza
• Compass Box The Lost Blend (Bottled 2014)
• Compass Box The Peat Monster
• Compass Box, The Last Vatted Malt
• Douglas Laing Double Barrel Bowmore and Highland Park
• Famous Grouse 30 Year Old
• Monkey Shoulder
• Monkey Shoulder Scotch Whisky
• Old St Andrews “Twilight” 10 year old
• Old St Andrews “Nightcap” 15 year old
• Sheep Dip Old Hebridean 1990
• Tasting a trio of show-stopping whiskies from Compass Box: The Circle, The No Name No. 2, and The Affinity
• The Big Smoke Blended Islay Malt 60

Scotch whisky – blends

• Ballentine’s 12 Year Old
• Ballentine’s 17 Year old
• Ballentine’s 21 Year Old
• Ballentine’s Finest
• Black Bull 12 Year Old
• Black Bull 40 Year Old (Batch 3)
• Black Bull Kyloe
• Black Grouse
• Blue Hanger 9th release (Berry Bros. & Rudd)
• Chivas Regal 12 Year Old
• Chivas Regal 18 Year Old
• Chivas Regal Mizunara blended Scotch whisky
• Compass Box Great King Street Artists Blend
• Compass Box Great King Street Glasgow Blend
• Compass Box Hedonism
• Compass Box This is Not a Luxury Whisky
• Cutty Sark 12 Year Old ★
• Cutty Sark 18 Year Old
• Cutty Sark Prohibition Edition
• Cutty Sark Storm
• Cutty Sark Tam O Shanter 25 Year Old ★
• Dewar’s Signature ★
• Dimple 15 Year Old
• Dimple 15 year old
• Duncan and Taylor Smokin’
• Famous Grouse and Famous Grouse 12 Year Old
• Grant’s Triple Wood
• Grant’s Whisky: Sherry Cask, Ale Cask and 12 Year Old
• Highland Harvest Organic Scotch Whisky
• Johnnie Walker Black Label
• Johnnie Walker Blue Label
• Johnnie Walker Blue Label (2013)
• Johnnie Walker Double Black
• Johnnie Walker Gold Label Centenary Blend
• Johnnie Walker Gold Label Reserve
• Johnnie Walker Green Label
• Johnnie Walker Platinum Label 18 Year Old
• Johnnie Walker Red Label
• Johnnie Walker Red Label mid-90’s versus 2013
• Johnnie Walker Swing
• Johnnie Walker XR 21
• Johnnie Walker: An Overview of the Core Range
• Label 5 “Gold Heritage”
• Label 5 12 year old
• Label 5 18 year old
• New release: Royal Salute 21 Year Old Beach Polo Edition
• Old St Andrews “Fireside” 12 year old
• Pure Scot: Another great value Scotch
• Royal Salute 21 Year Old
• Royal Salute 21 year old Scotch whisky
• Snow Grouse
• Tasting a trio of show-stopping whiskies from Compass Box: The Circle, The No Name No. 2, and The Affinity
• Twenty Third St Distillery Hybrid Whisk(e)y

Scotch whisky – grain

• Compass Box Hedonism
• Compass Box Hedonism Quindecimus

Swedish whisky

• Mackmyra brukswhisky
• Mackmyra Midnattssol (Birch Sap Finish) Swedish whisky
• Mackmyra Misdattssol
• Mackmyra Special 07
• Mackmyra Svensk Rök
• Mackmyra Ten Years Swedish Single Malt Whisky
• Spirit of Hven Sankt Claus (Cask 11-222)
• Spirit of Hven Seven Stars No 2 Merak
• Spirit of Hven Seven Stars No. 3 Phecda
• Spirit of Hven Single Malt Seven Stars No 1 Dubhe

Taiwanese whisky

• Kavalan Concertmaster
• Kavalan Ex-Bourbon Oak
• Kavalan King Car Whisky
• Kavalan Podium
• Kavalan Sherry Oak
• Kavalan Single Malt
• Kavalan Solist Ex-Bourbon Cask
• Kavalan Solist Fino Sherry Cask
• Kavalan Solist Sherry Cask 58.7%
• Kavalan Solist Vinho Barrique

Thai whisky

• Blend 285
• Mekhong Thai Spirit

Brandy – Cognac

• Camus Borderies XO
• Camus XO Elegance
• Courvoisier 21 Years Old
• Courvoisier XO Imperial
• Croizet 1984 Vintage
• Croizet XO Gold
• DEAU Black
• DEAU Louis Memory
• DEAU Napoléon
• Francois Voyer Grande Champagne 25 Years
• Francois Voyer Napoleon 15 Years
• Francois Voyer Terre Grande Champagne 5 Years
• H by Hine
• Hennessy Paradis
• Hennessy V.S.O.P Privilège
• Hennessy VS
• Hennessy XO
• Hine Antique XO
• Hine Homage
• Hine Rare Fine Champagne VSOP
• Hine Triomphe Grande Champagne
• Martell Cordon Bleu
• Maxime Trijol Classic XO
• Maxime Trijol VS Cognac
• Maxime Trijol VSOP Cognac
• Meukow XO, VSOP, Vanilla
• Normandin Mercier Extra Grande Champagne
• Normandin Mercier Extra Petite Champagne
• Normandin Mercier La Péraudière Grande Champagne
• Normandin Mercier Très Vieille Grande Champagne
• Normandin Mercier XO Grande Champagne

Brandy – Armagnac

• Chabot XO
• Chateau Tariquet Folle Blanche 12 years
• Delord Bas-Armagnac 1985
• Francis Darroze 1959 51 Year Old
• Janneau VSOP
• Janneau XO Royal
• Nismes-Delclou Armagnac XO (20 Year Old)

Brandy – Calvados

• Château Du Breuil Fine Calvados
• Roger Groult 25 year old Calvados

Rum

• Appleton Estate V/X, 8, 12 and 21 Year Old
• Beenleigh 5 Year Old Dark Rum
• Bundaberg Small Batch
• Habitation St Etienne Rhum XO (Ardbeg Cask)
• Havana Club Anejo 7 Anos ★
• Havana Club Seleccion de Maestros ★
• Holey Dollar Gold Coin Rum 57.2%
• Holey Dollar Platinum Label Cask Strength Rum 75.9%
• Inner Circle Green Dot
• Inner Circle Grey Dot 75.9%
• Iridium Gold Rum by Mt Uncle distillery
• Koloa Rum – White, Coconut, Spice, Gold and Dark
• Mount Gay Extra Old Rum
• Penny Blue XO Batch #2 Single Estate Mauritian Rum
• Pusser’s Navy Rum Aged 15 Years (Nelson’s Blood)
• Pusser’s Spiced Rum
• Pussers British Navy Rum
• Ron de Jeremy
• Ron de Jeremy Spiced Rum
• SangSom Thai Rum (“Whiskey” to the locals)
• Stroh Rum
• The Kraken Black Spiced Rum
• Zacapa 23 Solera

Tequila

• Espolón Reposado Tequila
• Espolón Tequila Blanco
• Gran Patron Platinum
• Herradura Seleccion Suprema Extra Anejo ★
• Patron Anejo Tequila

Vodka

• Ciroc Vodka (Italianesque grappa!)
• Crystal Head Vodka
• Grey Goose Le Citron
• How to Make a Great Martini (featuring The Botanist gin, Spirit of Hven Organic Vodka and Lillet Blanc)
• McHenry Puer Vodka
• Precious Vodka
• Spirit of Hven Organic Vodka ★

Cigars

• ACID Blondie (Nicaragua)
• ACID Extra-Ordinary Larry (Nicaragua)
• ACID Kuba Kuba (Nicaragua)
• ACID Nasty (Nicaragua)
• ACID Toast (Nicaragua)
• Aging Room F55 Quattro
• Ashton Virgin Sun Grown Torpedo cigar (Dominican Republic)
• Diamond Crown Julius Caeser (Robusto cigar)
• Diamond Crown Maximus
• La Flor Dominicana Oro (Dominican Republic)
• La Gloria Cubana (Dominican Republic)
• Macanudo Estate Reserve Robusto (Dominican Republic)
• Montecristo No 1 (Cuba)
• Montecristo No 2 (Cuba)
• Nub 464 Cameroon Torpedo Cigar (Nicaragua)
• Padrón 1964 Anniversary Series (Nicaragua)
• Padron 1964 Anniversary Series (maduro)
• Pairing Whisky and Cigars
• Perdomo 10th Anniversary Champagne (Nicaragua)
• Perdomo Double Aged 12 year Connecticut (Nicaragua)
• Punch Petit Coronations (Cuba)
• Rocky Patel Decades Torpedo (Honduras)
• Romeo y Julieta Habana Reserve (Nicaragua)
• Romeo y Julieta No 1 (Cuba)
• Romeo y Julieta No 2 (Cuba)
• Romeo y Julieta Wide Churchill (Cuba)