This last whiskey from my guided tasting was part of my personal stock. When I bought it, it ran about 140 dollars and now sees prices 3x that amount. I originally purchased this based on rumblings among bourbon drinkers of it being "the best bourbon you can buy on the market right now" and being "budget …

The penultimate whiskey from my previous tasting was picked because I knew I could rely on it being a classic style bourbon in a way that I knew W.L. Weller would be a classic wheated bourbon. I went with the 1920 Prohibition expression to mix it up a little. I'm sitting here with the candied cherry small wafting at me …

The new year is here and holidays have calmed down a little, so onto the 4th whiskey from my seven whiskey guided tasting. Today is the other "new distillery" I added into the mix, it was the newest out of all of them, in fact. This whiskey wound up being the crowd favorite of all the whiskeys, which …

In showing off whiskeys, part of what I wanted to do was have some newcomers mixed in with the old timers. To counter a W.L. Weller, we have a distillery that's relatively new to the whiskey world. Bardstown Bourbon Company is one of those and tomorrow we'll see Rabbit Hill, the other newbie that I picked for the …

I picked this whiskey for my tasting as a gentle intro. W.L. Weller is one of the grand-daddies of high-wheat / wheated bourbons. While I'm not generally a huge fan of Weller, it feels like a more interesting high-wheat bourbon than Maker's Mark and Buffalo Trace is a distillery that puts out a lot of varied product, …

This is part of my series on tasting notes from the 2021 Drinks By The Dram Bourbon Advent Calendar. Whiskey for December 24th, 2021: Smooth Ambler Contradiction Bourbon The distillery I've talked about Smooth Ambler before The whiskey I think I'll just let Smooth Ambler cover this one: Contradiction Bourbon, bottled …

This is part of my series on tasting notes from the 2021 Drinks By The Dram Bourbon Advent Calendar. Whiskey for December 22nd, 2021: Legent Bourbon The distillery So I'm going to call the distillery Jim Beam for this one, because this is a joint project between Fred Noe, the master distiller at Jim Beam, and Shinji …

This is part of my series on tasting notes from the 2021 Drinks By The Dram Bourbon Advent Calendar. Whiskey for December 20th, 2021: Sonoma Distilling Company's Sonoma Bourbon The distillery We've already talked about Sonoma Distilling Co. The whiskey This is our second whiskey from Sonoma Distilling Co., the first …

This is part of my series on tasting notes from the 2021 Drinks By The Dram Bourbon Advent Calendar. Whiskey for December 19th, 2021: James Cree's Cattle Ranch Whiskey The distillery Ok, buckle up, it's story time. So initially I had no idea what's going on here. James Cree's is not a distiller I've ever heard of and …

This is part of my series on tasting notes from the 2021 Drinks By The Dram Bourbon Advent Calendar. Whiskey for December 18th, 2021: Maker's Mark 46 The distillery Tonight's whiskey is called Maker's Mark and is made by Maker's Mark. Like the Knob Creek yesterday, Maker's Mark is owned by Beam Suntory after trading …