Review Archive
Below is a complete list of reviews on this site. At the bottom of the page is a list of written posts I have made (whisky trends, distilleries, etc.). For a listing of top reviews, see my Highest Rated page.
Canadian Whisky
Bearface Triple Oak 7 Years Old
Black Fox 100% Oat Whisky (Cask Sample; Not yet released)
Black Fox 100% Triticale Whisky (Cask Sample; Not yet released)
Black Fox 100% Wheat Whisky (Cask Sample; Not yet released)
Black Velvet Onyx 12 Years Old
Black Velvet Reserve 8 Years Old
Cadenhead's Potter's 24 Year Old
Calvert Canadian (1970s/1980s)
Canadian Club Chronicles 41 Years Old
Canadian Club Chronicles 42 Years Old
Canadian Club Chronicles 43 Year Old
Canadian Club Reserve 9 Years Old
Canadian Club Small Batch Classic 12 Year Old
Canadian Club Small Batch Sherry Cask
Canadian Rockies 35 Year Old Cask Strength
Caribou Crossing Single Barrel
Century Reserve 30 Year Old Rare Cask
Collingwood Double Oaked (The Town Collection)
Collingwood 21 Year Old Limited Edition
Crown Royal 16 Year Old Rye (Noble Collection)
Crown Royal Bourbon (Blender's) Mash
Crown Royal Cornerstone (Noble Collection)
Crown Royal French Oak Finish (Noble Collection)
Crown Royal Hand Selected Single Barrel
Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye
Crown Royal Wine Barrel Finish (Noble Collection)
Crown Royal Winter Wheat (Noble Collection)
Danfield's Private Reserve 10 Year Old
Diamond S Single Malt (Rig Hand)
Dubh Glas Against All Odds Single Malt
Entrapment 25 Year Old (Orphan Barrel)
Fils Du Roy Single Malt for Richelieu International
Fils Du Roy Single Malt for Congres Mondial Acadien 2019
Forty Creek Confederation Oak Reserve
Forty Creek Copper Pot Reserve
Forty Creek Double Barrel Reserve
Forty Creek Three Grain 20th Anniversary
Forty Creek Three Grain Harmony
Gibson's Olympic 16 Year Old (1976)
Gooderidge & Williams Northern Grains
Gooderidge & Williams Western Grains
Gooderham & Worts 1832 Decanter (1946)
Gooderham & Worts 49 Wellington 19 Years Old
Gooderham & Worts Centenniel 15 Y.O. (1952)
Gooderham & Worts Eleven Souls
Gooderham & Worts Little Trinity 17 Years Old
Glen Breton 24 Year Old Cask Strength
Great Plains 18 Year Old Jerez Brandy Finish
Hochstadter Family Reserve 16 Year Old
Jefferson's Straight Rye 10 Years Old
J.P. Wiser’s 10 Year Old Triple Barrel
J.P. Wiser’s 22 Year Old Cask Strength Port Cask Finish
J.P. Wiser’s 23 Year Old Cask Strength Blend
J.P. Wiser's Canada 2018 Commemorative
J.P. Wiser’s Darryl Sittler (Alumni Series)
J.P. Wiser’s Dave Keon (Alumni Series)
J.P. Wiser’s Guy Lafleur (Alumni Series)
J.P. Wiser’s Lanny McDonald (Alumni Series)
J.P. Wiser’s Larry Robinson (Alumni Series)
J.P. Wiser’s Mark Messier (Alumni Series)
J.P. Wiser’s Paul Coffey (Alumni Series)
J.P. Wiser's Triple Barrel (Australia)
J.P. Wiser's Triple Barrel (Canada)
J.P. Wiser’s Triple Barrel (USA)
J.P. Wiser's Union 52 (Not fully Canadian, I know..)
J.P. Wiser’s Wendel Clark (Alumni Series)
J.P. Wiser’s Yvan Cournoyer (Alumni Series)
Last Mountain 100% Rye (Cask Strength)
Last Mountain Single Malt Whisky
Last Mountain Wine Cask Whisky
Last Straw Distillery Rye Whisky
Last Straw Distillery Scorn Whisky
Last Straw Distillery Stout Whisky
Lock, Stock, and Barrel 13 Year Old
Lock, Stock, and Barrel 16 Year Old
Lock, Stock, and Barrel 18 Year Old
Lohin McKinnon Barley & Rye Lightly Peated (Canada's 150th Anniversary Lim. Ed.)
Lohin McKinnon Cacao Aged Malt
Lohin Mckinnon Niagara Wine Barrel Finish
Lohin McKinnon Peated Bordeaux Finish
Lohin McKinnon Tequila Finished
Lohin McKinnon Wine Barrel Finished (Black Sage)
Masterson's 10 Year Old Straight Barley
Masterson's 10 Year Old Straight Rye
Masterson's 10 Year Old Straight Rye (American Oak Finish)
Masterson's 10 Year Old Straight Rye (French Oak Finish)
Masterson's 10 Year Old Straight Rye (Hungarian Oak Finish)
Masterson's 12 Year Old Straight Wheat
North of 7 Whisky (Four Grain)
North of 7 Whisky (Three Grain Trad)
North of 7 Whisky (Three Grain Wheated)
Odd Society Powell Street Bourbon Style Whisky
Pike Creek (Port Finish; US Version; NAS)
Pike Creek 10 Year Old (Port Finish)
Pike Creek 10 Year Old (Rum Finish)
Pike Creek 15 Year Old (Cabernet Sauvignon Finish)
Pike Creek 21 Year Old (Speyside Malt Finish)
Pike Creek 21 Year Old (European Oak Finish)
Pike Creek 21 Year Old (Oloroso Sherry Finish)
Rocking R 100% Rye (Rig Hand Distillery)
Shelter Point Avant-Garde Barley (The Strath Exclusive)
Shelter Point Cask Strength (for Wee Rock Whisky Club)
Shelter Point Classic Single Malt (The Strath Exclusive)
Shelter Point Distiller's Select Cask Strength
Shelter Point French Oak Double Barreled
Shelter Point Single Cask Foch Reserve Finish
Shelter Point Single Cask Peat Finish
Shelter Point Single Cask Triple Grain
Shelter Point Single Cask Virgin Oak Finish
Shelter Point Cask Strength Wine Barrel Finish (for Wine & Beyond)
Shelter Point Montfort DL 141 Single Malt
Shelter Point Montfort DL 151 Single Malt
Shelter Point The Forbidden Single Malt Wheat
Sons of Vancouver “Cigarettes on a Leather Jacket” Whisky
Stalk & Barrel Rye (Cask Strength)
Stalk & Barrel Special 1+11 Blend
Stalk & Barrel Single Malt (Cask Strength)
Two Brewers Classic Single Malt
Two Brewers Innovative Single Malt
Two Brewers Peated Single Malt
Two Brewers Special Finishes Single Malt
West Coast Speakeasy (de Vine Spirits)
Whistlepig 10 Years Old Straight Rye
Whistlepig 15 Years Old Straight Rye
Whisky in the 6 (Last Straw Distillery Signature Series)
American Whiskey
Balcones Brimstone Scrub Oak Smoked
Barterhouse 20 Y.O. (Orphan Barrel)
Belmont Farms Kopper Kettle Virginia Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Blanton's Original Single Barrel
Blanton's Straight From the Barrel
Buffalo Trace Single Oak Project (Barrels 25, 41, 57, 73, 89, 105, 121, 137, 153, 169, 185)
Colonel E.H. Taylor Kentucky Straight Rye
Elijah Craig 12 Year Old Barrel Proof
Elijah Craig Single Barrel for Kensington Wine Market
Evan Williams Vintage Single Barrel
Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch 125th Anniversary (2013)
Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch (2014)
Four Roses Private Selection Single Barrel (OBSO)
Four Roses Private Selection Single Barrel (OBSK)
Four Roses Private Selection Single Barrel (OESF)
Four Roses Private Selection Single Barrel (OESK)
Four Roses Private Selection Single Barrel (OESQ)
Four Roses Private Selection Single Barrel (OESV)
High Wire Revival 100% Jimmy Red Straight Bourbon
Hillrock Estate Solera Aged Bourbon
Hochstadter’s Vatted Straight Rye Whisky
Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Cask Strength
Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel Rye
Jefferson’s Reserve Very Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon
Knob Creek Rye Cask Strength 2009
Knob Creek Single Barrel 9 Years Old
Knob Creek Small Batch 9 Years Old
Koval Four Grain Single Barrel
Old Forester 1920 Prohibition Style
Old Potrero Single Malt Straight Rye
Parker's Heritage Collection Promise of Hope
Parker's Heritage Collection Original Small Batch
Parker’s Heritage Collection Single Barrel 11 Years Old
Punjabi Club Rye Whisky (country of origin unclear, but produced in America)
Russell's Reserve Single Barrel
Smuggler's Notch Straight Bourbon
Van Winkle "Lot B" 12 Years Old
Westland Amaretto Cask Single Malt
Westland American Oak Single Malt
Westland Celebrious Single Malt
Westland Eureka Cask Single Malt
Westland Garry Oak Single Cask
Westland Peat Week Single Malt
Westland Sherry Wood Single Malt
Wild Turkey 101 Straight Bourbon
Wild Turkey 81 Straight Bourbon
Wild Turkey Master’s Keep 17 Years Old
Willett Family Estate Single Barrel Rye
William Heavenhill Bottled-in-Bond
Whistlepig Old World 12 Year Old
Whoop & Holler 28 Year Old (Orphan Barrel)
Woodford Reserve Master’s Collection Oat Grain Bourbon
Woodford Reserve Straight Malt Whiskey
Woodford Reserve Straight Rye Whiskey
Woodford Reserve Straight Wheat Whiskey
Scotch Whisky
AnCnoc 16 Year Old (125th Anniversary)
Ardbeg 23 Year Old 1991 (Master of Malt)
Ardmore 8 Y.O. 2010 (Berry Bros and Rudd for Kensington Wine Market)
Ardmore 20 Y.O. 1998 (Gordon & MacPhail)
Arran Machrie Moor Peated Cask Strength
Auchroisk 7 Year Old 2009 (Hepburn’s Choice)
Balvenie Doublewood 12 Years Old
Balvenie Caribbean Cask 14 Years Old
Balvenie Signature 12 Years Old
Balvenie Single Bourbon Barrel 12 Years Old
Balvenie Single Sherry Barrel 15 Years Old
Benriach 12 Year Old Sherry Wood
Benriach Curiositas 10 Year Old
Benriach Heredotus Fumosis 12 Year Old
Bowmore 15 Years Old (bottled ~1996)
Bowmore 17 Years Old (bottled ~1996)
Bowmore 21 Years Old (bottled ~1996)
Bowmore Legend (bottled ~1996)
Brora 34 Year Old 1982 (2017 Special Release)
Brora 35 Year Old 1978 (2014 Special Release)
Bruichladdich Islay Barley 2009
Bruichladdich The Laddie Classic
Bruichladdich The Organic 2009
Caledonian 40 Year Old 1976 (Douglas Laing XOP)
Caol Ila 15 Y.O. Unpeated (2018 Special Release)
Caol Ila 18 Y.O. Unpeated (2017 Special Release)
Caol Ila 19 Y.O. 1996 (Douglas Laing)
Caol Ila 31 Y.O. 1984 (Signatory Cask Strength)
Caol Ila 35 Y.O. (Special Release 2018)
Caol Ila 2006 12 Y.O. Cask Strength (Signatory Vintage Cask Strength)
Caol Ila 2009 9 Y.O. (Signatory Vintage)
Carsebridge 48 Y.O. (2018 Special Release)
Cladach Blended Malt (2018 Special Release)
Clynelish 15 Y.O. 1997 (Cooper’s Choice)
Clynelish 18 Y.O. 1996 (Hunter Laing)
Clynelish 20 Y.O. 1995 (Gleann Mor)
Cragganmore 12 Y.O. Cask Strength (2019 Special Release)
Dalwhinnie Distiller's Edition
Elements of Islay Peat Full Proof
Glen Grant 15 Y.O. 1997 (Cadenhead)
Glen Grant 48 Y.O. 1965 (Celebration of the Cask)
Glendronach Single Cask 1994 (2012)
Glenfiddich 15 Y.O. Solera Reserve
Glenfiddich 15 Y.O. Distillery Edition
Glenrothes Vintage Reserve 1995 (Bott. 2014)
Glenmorangine 10 Y.O. Original
Great King Street Artist's Blend (Compass Box)
Great King Street Artist’s Blend Momofuku Cask (Compass Box)
Great King Street Glasgow Blend (Compass Box)
Highland Park 24 Years Old (Master of Malt)
Highland Park 25 Years Old 1989 (Douglas Laing)
Highland Park Cask Strength 2006 (Gordon & MacPhail)
Inverleven 1990 15 Y.O. (Gordon & MacPhail)
Laphroaig 10 Year Old Cask Strength
Laphroaig 10 Year Old Sherry Oak Finish
Laphroaig 16 Years Old 1995 (Signatory)
Laphroaig Cairdeas 200th Anniversary
Ledaig 21 Year Old 1992 (Cadenhead)
Longmorn 25 Year Old 1989 (Douglas Laing)
The Macallan “A Night on Earth in Scotland”
The Macallan Harmony Collection Rich Cacao
Macaloney's Twa Cask Benrinnes & Glenlossie
Macaloney's Twa Cask Blair Athol & Macduff
Macaloney's Twa Cask Caol Ila & Bunnahabhain
MacKinlay's Rare Old Highland Malt (The Discovery)
Miltonduff 18 Year Old 1995 (Signatory)
Miltonduff 20 Year Old 1994 (Cadenhead)
Mortlach 22 Year Old (Single Malts of Scotland)
Mortlach 23 Year Old 1991 (MacKillop's Choice)
North British 53 Year Old 1961 (Douglas Laing)
Oban 21 Y.O. (Special Release 2018)
Port Charlotte Scottish Barley
Scapa 22 Years Old 1991 (MacKillop's Choice)
Singleton of Glen Ord 14 Years Old (Special Release 2018)
Singleton of Glendullan 12 Years Old
Singleton of Glendullan 15 Years Old
Spice Tree Extravaganza (Compass Box)
Springbank 12 Y.O. Cask Strength
Story of the Spaniard (Compass Box)
Strathisla 21 Year Old 1992 (Douglas Laing)
Talisker 8 Year Old Cask Strength
Talisker 15 Year Old (Special Release 2019)
Teaninich 10 Year Old (Flora & Fauna)
This is Not a Luxury Whisky (Compass Box)
Tullibardine 500 Sherry Cask Finish
Irish Whiskey
Bushmills Single Malt 10 Years Old
Midleton Barry Crockett Legacy
Power’s 12 Year Old John Lane Release
Redbreast Pure Pot Still 12 Years Old
Redbreast Pure Pot Still 12 Years Old Cask Strength
Redbreast Pure Pot Still 15 Years Old
Redbreast Pure Pot Still 21 Years Old
Tullamore Dew XO Caribbean Rum Finish
Tyrconnel Single Malt 10 Years Old Madeira Cask
Waterford Ballymorgan Single Malt
Japanese Whisky
Iwai Tradition Mars Blended Japanese Whisky
Taketsuru Pure Malt 12 Year Old
Taketsuru Pure Malt 21 Year Old
Indian Whisky
Amrut Peated Port Pipe (Single Cask)
Taiwanese Whisky
Kavalan Concertmaster Port Finish
Australian Whisky
Starward Two-Fold Double Grain
Israeli Whisky
Milk & Honey Young Single Malt
Milk & Honey Classic Single Malt
Milk & Honey Islay Cask Single Malt
South African Whisky
Bain's Cape Mountain Single Grain
Swedish Whisky
High Coast (BOX) The Second Step Collection
British Whisky
French Whisky
Welsh Whisky
New Zealand Whisky
High Wheeler 21 Year Old Single Grain
Other Posts
2016
Will the Canadian Whisky Bubble Pop?
How much is whisky worth: the value score
The Canadian Whisky Awards 2017
My favourite drams of 2016 (part 1)
My favourite drams of 2016 (part 2)
2017
Whatever happened to Wiser's Legacy?
Best Canada 150th Anniversary Bottlings
Canadian Whiskies You Need to Taste
If I could only have 5 Canadian Whiskies....
J.P. Wiser's VIP Tour: A Day with Don
My favourite drams of 2017 (part 1)
My favourite drams of 2017 (part 2)
2018
2015 Canadian Whisky Awards - Runners Up
2017 Canadian Whisky Awards - Runners Up
2018 Canadian Whisky Awards - Runners Up
Canadian Whisky Export Statistics
On the base whiskies of the remarkable Crown Royal distillery
On whisky festivals, but, particularly, The Wonderful World of Whisky
A visit to the Midleton (Jameson) Distillery
The Wonderful World of Westland’s Single Barley New Makes
The Best Canadian Cream Whiskies
My favourite drams of 2018 (part 1)
My favourite drams of 2018 (part 2)
2019
Auditorium of Perspective: A visit to BarChef
Ranking the Last 7 Years of Canadian Whisky
Shelter Point seems to get a bit better every year
Northern Border Collection 2019 - Inspired by Consumers