Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the following five bottles hold their own beauty. As well as holding well-crafted spirits, these beautiful bottles make any liquor shelf look superb. Wyborowa Exquisite Polish Vodka Brewed from a single Polish estate, this premium bottle was designed by legendary architect Frank Gehry. Featuring the famed […]
Bourbon
Knob Creek celebrates 25th Anniversary with Limited Edition Bourbon
Way back in 1992 Booker Noe, Master Distiller of Jim Beam, created the small batch bourbon revolution with a 100-proof, 9-year-old bourbon called Knob Creek. It was so different to all the bourbons on the market at that time that had been watered down to 80 proof. Knob Creek reminded us of the golden age of […]
The Whiskey Barons Bourbon Collection
The Whiskey Barons Bourbon Collection is an ambitious undertaking by Wild Turkey Distillery to honour and recreate historically significant Bourbons that were lost after Prohibition. Our mission is to resurrect these remarkable spirits so current and future generations of whiskey lovers can taste history while giving back to the Kentucky community that sparked so much […]
Pappy Van Winkle 25 Year Old? Really??
Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery have announced they will release a one-time bottling of Van Winkle bourbon at 25 years old in April 2017 for $USD1,800 for a 750 ml bottle. Only 11 barrels comprise this very small batch bourbon, making the 710 bottles especially rare. Obviously, this will be much harder to find than […]
Buffalo Trace Single Oak Bourbon Experiment
Over the a period of four years from 2011 to 2015, Buffalo Trace Distillery has been incrementally releasing 192 different bottlings of a Single Oak Project Bourbon and asking whiskey enthusiasts to vote on their favourite at www.singleoakproject.com. The ambitious goal of this research was to create the perfect bourbon, based on feedback from bourbon drinkers. […]
Bottled in Bond…Do You Know What it Really Means?
To understand the term Bottled in Bond or BIB, you have to understand the way whiskey worked in the Wild West. In the old West and across the US in the 1800s, no law stood to protect imbibers from buying dodgy or dangerous alcohol. Sly saloon owners and snake-oil salesmen sold bottles of mixed booze browned with […]
The Amazing History of Sunny Brook Bourbon
The Rosenfields Were “The Sunny Brook Boys” The Rosenfield Brothers were the sons of an immigrant jeweler who moved his family from state to state, city to city, until they found a home in Chicago and eventually gained recognition as among America’s foremost distillers. Because of their flagship whiskey, Morris Rosenfield and brothers Lewis and […]
10 Great and Affordable Kentucky Bourbons… Part 2
Continuing the list of the top 10 Kentucky Bourbon’s that bring the best value and highest quality in this category.. Ridgemont 1792 Reserve This bourbon, whose name gives a nice nod to the year Kentucky became a state, is the mellowest and most sippable bourbon on this list. I would actually caution against dropping any ice into […]