Review #1122; Brandy #63 Here we have a single vintage of Calvados. This Calvados contains 70% pear and 30% apple. The fruit ferments for 11 months in oak before being distilled on a single alembic. This was distilled in 1980 and aged in French Oak before being bottled. Distillery: Lemorton Bottler: Lemorton Region: France Still: Single Alembic ABV: 40% Cask: […]
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Review #1121; Rum #442 This rum comes from Rum 970, probably the most common brand of Madeira rum that is known. This rum was distilled at Engenhos de Norte’s from fresh pressed sugar cane juice on a pot still. It was then aged for 15 years in ex-Madeira wine casks before being bottled. Distillery: Engenhos de
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Review #1120; Rum #441 Saint Nicholas Abbey is a rum distillery located on Barbados. This rum is pot and column distilled from cane syrup and bottled with no filtration. The rum then rests in stainless steel for 3 months before being bottled Saint Nicholas Abbey is a very small producer in scale when compared to
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Review #1119; Brandy #62 This Apple brandy comes to us from Clear Creek, a distiller based in Hood River, Oregon that distills various different brandy styles. This single cask was selected by the Aficionados group. This apple brandy was fermented and distilled from from yellow apples from the Yakima Valley. It was aged for 15
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Review #1118; Rum #440 This is a rum bottled by the independent bottler Compagnie des Indes. This rum was distilled at a secret Florida distillery, aged for 14 years, and finished in a French Whisky cask before being bottled. I would venture to guess (doing a light bit of research) that his rum comes from
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Review #1117; Rum #439 This bottling was done by Down Island, a relative newcomer to the American Independent rum bottler scene. Based out of Florida, this is their 6 bottling released thus far. This one is an aged agricole rum that was distilled in Sainte-Marie Martinique in 2017 on a 19 plate column still. It
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Review #1116; Brandy #61 Clear Creek, a brand of Hood River Distillers in Oregon, produces a number of brandies. This offering is an Apple Brandy that has aged for 8 years in new and used French Oak casks before being bottled. They produce this buy crushing and fermenting whole yellow Opal apples. Distillery: Hood River/Clear Creek
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Review #1115; Rum #438 This rum was bottled by Rolling Fork, an American independent bottler based out of Kentucky. The rum for this bottle was distilled at Hampden and aged for 11 years with a mix of ageing in Tropical and Continental environments. It was bottled at cask strength with no chill filtering and is
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Review #1114; Scotch #215 I had this blind then was revealed the bottling, so keep that in mind reading my notes. In another blind review of a secret Santa sample, we have a whisky from a distillery I’ve never had, Jura. 7 wood jokes aside, this is a bottling from independent bottler Cadenhead’s. This whisky
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In what has become a yearly tradition, I am here looking back on the rums I was fouranate to try during 2023. I felt that this list should be expanded to a full top 10 list. The rules are pretty simple for this list, I had to have tasted and reviewd the rum in the
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