Old Tahoe Honey Flavored Rye Whiskey
Brilliant, crystal clear. The nose is greeted with the scent of sweet honey with a supporting Whiskey note that includes sweet grains, vanilla, and caramel. The palate delivers a full-throttle honey sensation with flanking notes of vanilla, brown sugar, and subtle tropical fruit notes. Medium-bodied and quite sweet. $35 – 3 Stars
West Cork 10 Years Old Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Brilliant, crystal clear. The nose is wonderfully intense with waves of rich caramel malt, tea biscuits, honey, wild flowers, vanilla bean, and toffee. The palate is in full agreement with the nose while delivering a super rich and ever-expansive malt core that is impossibly silky. Supporting notes of brown baking spices, gingerbread, and toasted oak round out the package. This single malt is bold and beautiful while never being cloying or heavy as vibrant spice notes and a generous dose of acidity keep it fresh. $39.99 – 5 Stars
Connemara Peated Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Brilliant, crystal clear. The aromatics jump out at you offering waves of smoke and peat delivered on a dense bed of sweet, honey-soaked malt with accents of spring flowers, heather, and a hint of citrus zest. The palate echoes the nose being rich with flavors of baked apples, malt, and honey accented by dry oak and grass notes. Wonderfully balanced and complex offering new wrinkles with each sip. This is a bold and hedonistic Whiskey with perfectly integrated peat and smoke notes that marry with the Whiskey rather than trample upon it. $44.99 – 5 Stars
I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon
Brilliant, crystal clear. The nose is classic Bourbon with waves of caramel, roasted nuts, brown baking spices, vanilla, and oak. The palate confirms the nose delivering a soft, fruity core with loads of toffee, caramel, oak, and spice. Medium-bodied with a gentle core of fruit and spice and sweet caramel flavors on the finish. $35 – 4 Stars
Egan's 10 Years Old Single Malt Irish Whiskey
See the Full BevX Featured Review & Beverage of the WeekBrilliant, crystal clear. The aromatics are beautiful and complex ideally marrying cereal grains with rich honeycomb, caramel, wild flowers and herbs, mint, delicate citrus notes, and sweet oak with a hint of campfire. The palate fully confirms the nose delivering a lush toffee-like core with waves of herbs, brown baking spice, and honey in support. Full-bodied and quite silky with perfect balance and long, lingering flavors that become both dry and sweet. $49.99 – 4.5 Stars
Tullamore D.E.W. Trilogy 15 Years Old Blended Irish Whiskey
Brilliant, amber and crystal clear. The nose is very pretty and rather complex perfectly marrying baked orchard fruits with caramel, brown baking spices, toasted nuts, and candied ginger with citrus zest. The palate echoes the nose with waves of rich fruit being bettered by the flood of spices, honey, and oak that simply takeover. Medium-bodied being rather rich and creamy with pronounced spice notes that add balance. $79.99 – 4 Stars
Hyde Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Brilliant, crystal clear. The aromatics are very spicy with a well-integrated oak backbone that offers a perfect platform for ripe, rich stone fruits, lemon curd, honey, and caramel. The palate echoes the nose delivering a rich and quite spicy fruit, Sherry, and honey-focused core with layers of pepper, brown baking spices, and loads of oak. Full-bodied with intense spice, Sherry, and oak flavors that envelop the rich fruit. $70 – 4 Stars
Kinahan's Blended Irish Whiskey
Brilliant, crystal clear. The aromatics are quite beautiful filling the nose with scents of ripe orchard fruits featuring pear and peach with accents of wild herbs, mint, honey, and vanilla. The palate echoes the nose delivering waves of fruit and malted barley at its core with flanking notes of herbs, oak, dark cocoa nibs, and subtle brown baking spices with a hint of citrus. Medium to full-bodied with ideal balance and long, lingering flavors that become drier on the finish. $39.99 – 4.5 Stars
Kinahan's Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Brilliant, crystal clear. The aromatics are certainly generous offering rich scents of butter toffee, honey, dried red fruits, toasted grain, orange peel and black tea with hints of allspice, pepper, and oak. The palate is in full agreement with the nose with the fruit component taking center stage then being quickly enveloped by spice, wood, and cigar. Full-bodied with a a dense and assertive core that finishes dry. $64.99 – 4 Stars
Teeling Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Brilliant, crystal clear. The aromatics are quite complex offering scents of roasted malt with ripe stone fruits with rich butter toffee, and toasted almonds with hints of lemon zest and nutmeg. The palate echoes the nose delivering a lush while very vibrant fruit and grain-driven core with loads of brown baking spices, ginger biscuits, vanilla bean, and bright citrus accents. Medium-bodied with ideal balance as the acidity level is quite generous and finishing with dry barrel notes. $59.99 – 4 Stars
