Review Archive
Below is a complete list of reviews on this site. For a listing of top reviews, see my Highest Rated page.
Canadian Whisky
Bearface Triple Oak 7 Years Old
Cadenhead's Potter's 24 Year Old
Calvert Canadian (1970s/1980s)
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 Bourbon (Blender's) Mash
Crown Royal Cornerstone (Noble Collection)
Crown Royal Hand Selected Single Barrel
Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye
Crown Royal Wine Barrel Finish (Noble Collection)
Danfield's Private Reserve 10 Year Old
Entrapment 25 Year Old (Orphan Barrel)
Forty Creek Confederation Oak Reserve
Forty Creek Copper Pot Reserve
Forty Creek Double Barrel Reserve
Forty Creek Three Grain Harmony
Gibson's Olympic 16 Year Old (1976)
Gooderham & Worts 1832 Decanter (1946)
Gooderham & Worts Centenniel 15 Y.O. (1952)
Gooderham & Worts Eleven Souls
Gooderham & Worts Little Trinity 17 Years Old
Jefferson's Straight Rye 10 Years Old
J.P. Wiser's Canada 2018 Commemorative
J.P. Wiser’s Guy Lafleur (Alumni Series)
J.P. Wiser’s Lanny McDonald (Alumni Series)
J.P. Wiser's Triple Barrel (Australia)
J.P. Wiser's Triple Barrel (Canada)
J.P. Wiser’s Wendel Clark (Alumni Series)
J.P. Wiser's Union 52 (Not fully Canadian, I know..)
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 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
Pike Creek (Port Finish; US Version; NAS)
Pike Creek 10 Year Old (Port Finish)
Pike Creek 10 Year Old (Rum Finish)
Pike Creek 21 Year Old (Speyside Malt Finish)
Pike Creek 21 Year Old (European Oak Finish)
Shelter Point Distiller's Select Cask Strength
Shelter Point French Oak Double Barreled
Shelter Point Montfort DL 141 Single Malt
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
Whistlepig 10 Years Old Straight Rye
Whistlepig 15 Years Old Straight Rye
American Whiskey
Balcones Brimstone Scrub Oak Smoked
Barterhouse 20 Y.O. (Orphan Barrel)
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
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
Knob Creek Single Barrel 9 Years Old
Knob Creek Small Batch 9 Years Old
Old Forester 1920 Prohibition Style
Parker's Heritage Collection Promise of Hope
Parker's Heritage Collection Original Small Batch
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 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
Willet Family Estate Single Barrel Rye
William Heavenhill Bottled-in-Bond
Whistlepig Old World 12 Year Old
Whoop & Holler 28 Year Old (Orphan Barrel)
Scotch Whisky
Ardbeg 23 Year Old 1991 (Master of Malt)
Arran Machrie Moor Peated Cask Strength
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 Curiositas 10 Year Old
Benriach Heredotus Fumosis 12 Year Old
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
Caol Ila 15 Y.O. Unpeated (2018 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)
Carsebridge 48 Y.O. (2018 Special Release)
Cladach Blended Malt (2018 Special Release)
Clynelish 18 Y.O. 1996 (Hunter Laing)
Clynelish 20 Y.O. 1995 (Gleann Mor)
Dalwhinnie Distiller's Edition
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)
Laphroaig 10 Year Old Cask Strength
Laphroaig Cairdeas 200th Anniversary
Ledaig 21 Year Old 1992 (Cadenhead)
Longmorn 25 Year Old 1989 (Douglas Laing)
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 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
Springbank 12 Y.O. Cask Strength
Strathisla 21 Year Old 1992 (Douglas Laing)
Talisker 8 Year Old Cask Strength
Teaninich 10 Year Old (Flora & Fauna)
This is Not a Luxury Whisky (Compass Box)
Tullibardine 500 Sherry Cask Finish
British Whisky
French Whisky
Indian Whisky
Amrut Peated Port Pipe (Single Cask)
Irish Whiskey
Bushmills Single Malt 10 Years Old
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
Japanese Whisky
Taketsuru Pure Malt 12 Year Old
Taketsuru Pure Malt 21 Year Old
South African Whisky
Bain's Cape Mountain Single Grain
Swedish Whisky
High Coast (BOX) The Second Step Collection
Taiwanese Whisky
Kavalan Concertmaster Port Finish
Welsh Whisky
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)