Review #374 - Jefferson's Ocean Voyage 30 Single Barrel - Wiseguy Lounge Pick 'Al Capone'
These trips often start on the East Coast of the USA before traveling around Australia and East Asia and later returning home.
Review #373 - Knob Creek 9 Year Single Barrel Select - Wiseguy Lounge Pick 'Vincent Gigante'
This single barrel was named 'Vincent Gigante' after Vincent Louis Gigante, also known as 'Chin' or 'The Oddfather.'
Review #372 - New Riff Single Barrel Bourbon - Wiseguy Lounge Pick 'The Great Debate'
This is from New Riff's inaugural year of operations, 2014, so it's some of the earliest distillate they ever created.
Review #371 - Four Roses 9 Year OESK Single Barrel Barrel Strength - Wiseguy Lounge Pick
This barrel pick was aged for 9 years and 6 months before bottling, falling into the low to middle of the range for Four Roses SBBS picks.
Review #370 - Stagg Single Barrel - Wiseguy Lounge Pick 'Extinct'
There's no age statement or other barrel-specific information available, but based on that high strength and the great reputation for the Stagg brand, we're expecting this to pack plenty of flavor.
Review #369 - Blanton's Single Barrel Select - Wiseguy Lounge Pick 'Omerta'
This pick is named 'Omerta,' which is an Italian word meaning 'silence,' or the mob practice of refusing to divulge information to the authorities.
Review #368 - Elijah Craig Barrel Proof Batch B524
This again falls under the old standard 12 year age statement, though not by much: 11 years and 2 months.
Review #367 - Bardstown Discovery Series #11
We can derive the overall mashbill from the components: 75% corn, 12% rye, 1% wheat, and 12% malted barley, roughly, so we have a four grain bourbon.
Review #366 - Bruichladdich Octomore 14.3
Once Bruichladdich got their hands on the barley, it was peated to a ridiculous 214.2 ppm.
Review #365 - Bruichladdich Octomore 14.2
14.2 was aged for 4 years in Oloroso sherry and Amarone wine casks, and then the 5th year was spent marrying in Pauillac wine casks.
Review #364 - SMWS 3.344 'Maritime Meandering' - Bowmore 18 Year
There's an unusual story behind this cask - this single malt was chosen by actor Neil Patrick Harris.
Review #363 - Bladnoch 10 Year Bourbon Expression
'Celebrating 200 Years' - that's the reason for this limited release version of Bladnoch's 10 year old single malt.
Review #362 - New Riff 8 Year Rye
This spirit was distilled in 2016 and possibly 2015, so this was some of the earliest whisky to come off of the stills after New Riff opened in 2014.
Review #361 - Edradour 12 Year Caledonia
The Oloroso sherry cask finish is generally 4 to 5 years of the total maturation time, meaning that the ex-bourbon period is likely 7 to 8 years.
Review #360 - Tomatin 12 Year Cuatro Series: Pedro Ximenez
The total time of aging is more than 12 years, and the yield was 2,000 bottles for this outturn.
Review #359 - Paul John Nirvana
John Distillery's entry level single malt - this is a 40% whisky which is meant to appeal to a wide audience of spirit enjoyers.
Review #358 - Peerless Single Barrel Bourbon 'Root Beer Float'
This single barrel (named 'Root Beer Float' based on the distillery's tasting notes) was available for purchase from the distillery's tasting room in Louisville, Kentucky.
Review #357 - Redwood Empire Pipe Dream
Pipe Dream is named for a 367 foot tree located in the Patriarch Forest of Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
Review #356 - Tomatin 12 Year Cuatro Series: Oloroso
The idea behind Tomatin's Cuatro series was to find the impact that different types of sherry casks had on their spirit.
Review #355 - Adelphi Springbank 21 Year Single Cask
This single cask bottling is from Adelphi, and they aged it for an impressive 21 years before bottling it at cask strength.