This is a step up from the entry level Redbreast 12 Year in multiple ways: it gets an additional three years of maturation, and it's bottled at a strength of 46% ABV, up from 40% on the 12 Year.

One interesting point from the brand is on its website - they actually give a recommended food pairing for this whisky.

Aged for 50 years before bottling in 2014, this Invergordon single grain comes from a single cask.

With a distillation vintage of 1992, this is an unpeated Bruichladdich aged in an unknown assortment of casks.

The smokiness or peat in a whisky will generally decline with more time spent aging in a cask.

This 23 Year bottling has the preferable strength of 46% ABV, and has the benefit of being un-colored and not chill filtered.

The unique mashbill is really the point of interest here: this is made entirely from low-yield sweet corn grain.

This is a $25 bourbon bottled at 45% ABV (90 Proof) with no stated age... or really much other information of any sort.

Distilled at MGP (Midwest Grain Product), this rye sports a mashbill made up of 95% rye grain and 5% malted barley.

On a trip to the Rockies a couple of years ago, we stopped at Fraser Valley Distilling in Fraser, Colorado.

It combines ex-bourbon barrel matured whisky with ex-sherry cask whisky, which, according to the brand, brings a balanced character.

Yummy, but the flavors are very much focused in one direction with the heavy sherry influence, and it's anything but subtle.

The best-selling single malt Scotch whisky in the world, at least as far as we can find - both the bottle specifically (the 12 Year), as well as the brand in general (Glenfiddich).

Another sherried Speyside whisky, and a distillery that's known specifically for that style - Tamdhu, and their 12 year entry.

The difference between this Illicit Still bottling and the standard Glenlivet 12 is a great improvement: we go from 40% ABV up to 48%, and it's no longer chill filtered.

We start with aging in 'whisky' oak; then we spend time in sherry oak - in this case, casks made from European oak.

There are actually three separate core range 12 year whiskies from Macallan - the Sherry Oak Cask, the Double Cask, and the Triple Cask.

Now produced at Limestone Branch Distillery, the Yellowstone bourbon brand has been around for over 150 years.

This bottle is their entry level bourbon - it's bottled at 45% ABV or 90 proof, and sports an age statement of two years in the fine print on the back label.

It comes in at 43% ABV, and the price is at a slightly more premium point compared to the 12 year without the rum finish.