Van Gogh Espresso Flavored Vodka
See the Full BevX Featured Review & Beverage of the WeekBrilliant, crystal clear. The nose is filled with scents of dark roasted coffee with supporting notes of fresh cream, brown sugar, and cocoa nibs, with a hint of vanilla. The palate echoes the nose while offering more lush and intense flavors than the nose suggested. It's just sweet enough to carry the flavors from the fore-palate to the finish with trailing notes of crushed coffee bean. It's medium-bodied with bright and genuine flavors that offer as many subtle notes as assertive flavors. $27.99 – 4.5 Stars
Van Gogh Double Espresso Flavored Vodka
See the Full BevX Featured Review & Beverage of the WeekBrilliant, crystal clear. Dark roasted coffee, roasted nuts, double cream, and treacle scents with hints of vanilla bean and caramel. The palate is in full agreement with the nose delivering bitter coffee notes and sweet brown sugar flavors in equal measure. Full-bodied and warming with generous coffee and confection notes mingling with subtle spice and bitter bean accents. $27.99 – 4 Stars
The Macallan Rare Cask Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Brilliant, crystal clear. The nose is rich with the scents of toasted grains equaled by notes of dense sherry with supporting notes of cocoa, green grass, orange zest, dried fruits, vanilla bean, and loads of brown baking spices. The palate echoes the nose as the sherry envelopes the spicy grain core that now exhibits more black pepper than is found in the aromatics. It finishes with a rich, sweet dried fruit focus with accents of brown spices. It's a full-bodied Whisky for sure but not as brooding as many heavily Sherry influenced drams and it has a long, lingering finish. $300 – 3.5 Stars
Pendleton Canadian Blended Whisky
Brilliant, crystal clear. The nose is seductive and pleasing luring you in with the scents of soft, toasted grains supported by sweet vanilla, cinnamon, allspice, caramel, and toasted oak. The palate echoes the nose delivering a lush and silky smooth core with waves of caramel, toasted grains, and brown baking spices with accents of spicy rye and black pepper. Medium-bodied with a decadent nature and ideal balance. $24.99 – 4 Stars
Pendleton 1910, 12 Years Old Canadian Rye Whisky
Brilliant, crystal clear. The nose is quite fruity with scents of red cherry, tangerine, and sweet toffee with supporting notes of vanilla, maple, pumpkin pie spice, cigar box, and charred oak. The palate is in full agreement with the nose offering a lush and chewy platform for the spicy rye notes to emerge with loads of sweet maple and caramel enveloping the entirety. More dense and assertive than the "standard" Pendelton bottling while still offering an easy to drink and easy to love essence. $39.95 – 4.5 Stars
Campari Bitters
Brilliant, crystal clear. The aromatics are wonderfully complex with scents of bitter bark, teaberry, cranberry, rhubarb, grapefruit zest, quinine, and blood orange. The palate echoes the nose delivering bitter herb and spice flavors that are more tart than sweet with generous citrus notes. Perfectly balanced with the classic contrast of bitter with a mild sweet, fruit core. $29 – 4.5 Stars
Tap Rye Sherry Finished 8 Years Old Canadian Rye Whisky
See the Full BevX Featured Review & Beverage of the WeekBrilliant, crystal clear. The aromatics are very grain focused with toasted grains and nuts with supporting notes of clove, allspice, cinnamon bark, rancio, vanilla bean, and black pepper. The palate echoes the nose perfectly with a lush, caramel accented sweet grain core with loads of spice, dried fruit, and pepper. Wonderfully intense without being over-the-top showing great balance with a generous dose of acidity that keeps it vibrant. $39.99 – 4 Stars
Michter's Barrel Strength US*1 Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey
See the Full BevX Featured Review & Beverage of the WeekBrilliant, crystal clear. The nose is beautifully complex with rich, sweet toasted grain in the lead with generous supporting scents of toffee, butterscotch, dried black fruits, charred oak, brown baking spices, and vanilla. The palate is in full accord with the nose delivering a rich, caramel soaked rye core with generous notes of clove, allspice, vanilla, black pepper, and nutmeg. This is absolutely an intense Rye but the ultra balanced flavors perfectly mask the high alcohol levels. $75 – 5 Stars
Colorado Sun 'Shine Moonshine USA White Whiskey
Brilliant, crystal clear. The nose is filled with the scents of sweet talc and corn Whiskey supported by notes of citrus redolent of limeade and lime zest. The palate echoes the nose delivering a thick and sweet core with copious amounts of sweet lime and candy sugar. Despite the high proof, this spirit is rather soft and pleasant on the palate with no significant sense of alcohol heat. $30 – 3 Stars
La Quintinye Vermouth Royal Extra Dry Vermouth
Brilliant, crystal clear. The nose is incredibly floral with loads of spice, bark, on a backdrop of red grapefruit and melon pear with hints of quinine and nutmeg. The palate is in full accord with the nose delivering a vibrant, tart tropical fruit core with accents of wild flowers and citrus. Beautifully intense and complex with a crisp dry edge. $21.99 – 4.5 Stars
