Tasting Notes Red Hot Deal alert on this premium 100% agave blanco tequila, ONLY $31.99 ($8 off)! If you are looking for a smooth drinking, light agave, citrus and spice driven blanco, then Tres Gen Plata is for you! Mellow lime and light "fresh rain" earth aroma along with white pepper and tropical fruit. On the palate, fruit with a touch of spice on the finish. Grab it now while its on special ..read more

  Jim Beam's latest innovation is a 5 year old 94 proof SINGLE MALT whiskey made with 100% barley malt, distilled in column stills in Clermont Kentucky from a jug yeast mash, and aged in new American oak, as stipulated by US law. This is one of many recently released barley-based whiskies by American distilleries, looking to push the category forward. Toasted cereal grain on the nose with dark fruit and a distinct breadiness, akin to heirloom rye bread. On the palate it's nutty, with burley tobacco, caramel, and honey nut Cherrios ..read more

Tasting Notes:  If you like drinking LOCAL and you're into LOW CAL and LOW ALC, then Upland Little Dragon is the best-tasting one on the market, in our opinion. Many beers in this category suffer from being either under malted, or under hopped or over hopped and under malted. Still, Little Dragon miraculously manages the exact right balance of each of these, with enough malt heft to provide body and just enough hop bitterness and aromatics to deliver a true IPA experience but with only 4% alcohol and 110 calories ..read more

Tasting Notes:  The latest Orphan Barrel project is a fantastically tasty blend of Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee bourbons, all bottled at the Dickel distillery in Tullahoma. I'm glad to see they could pull this one off, as Dickel is not to everyone's taste, but they've managed to sweeten up the normally corn-heavy whiskey with MGP, along with some spice and elegance from an 18-year-old Kentucky bourbon as well. Doesn't matter where it came from, the juice is legit. Bottled at 90 proof, the palate is nougatty soft with caramel, vanilla, and a really balanced oak profile. This is a sippe ..read more

  Calumet Farm may be on the biggest "sleeper hit" whiskey brands on the market. Yes, they source all their Kentucky whiskey, but they've been doing it for so long they've got one of the largest selections of sourced older bottlings which have been hitting the market in recent years. Their "Bull Lea" 10 year is a non-chill filtered 100 proof, 10yr old bourbon dripping with character. We love the fact that it's bottled at 100 proof which softens the oak impact just enough to make it imminently drinkable neat. The 74% corn, 18% rye, and 8% malted barley carries with it spice, fruit, and eno ..read more

Elijah Craig has spent lots of marketing dollars in the last few years on building a campaign around Elijah Craig bourbon as the "go to" for an Old Fashioned, which is quite serviceable in almost every level, but we've always been fans of rye based old fashioned which is why the Elijah Craig RYE is a perfect opportunity to make this drink. Bottled at 94 proof, the EC rye is on the lighter side of rye whiskey mashbills, but that makes it all the better as a sub for this classic cocktail. The spice is subtle, warming, inflected with mint, woodsy oak, and a pile of fresh orchard fruit and le ..read more

Tasting Notes:  What happens when you combine a very old scotch brand with pedigree reaching back hundreds of years and pineapple? A surprisingly delicious and drinkable combo. Buchanan's regular blended scotch is certainly a sleeper, but the matly goodness of the whisky is complimented perfectly by the tropical fruit both on the nose and the palate. It drinks sweeter than average, but if you're looking for a shooter with your Corona give this tropical scot a try ..read more

Tasting Notes:  The shocking truth about Jack Daniel's is that the older the whiskey and higher the proof the BETTER it keeps getting. Whiskey brands for years have leant on marketing speak around "the perfect age" or "aged to perfection" while being relatively vague about actual age, but then end up releasing older whiskies that just aren't quite as good as their regular line up. This is not the case with Jack, as every experiment in longer ageing as well as higher proofs has proven far superior to the regularly released item. The second batch of Jack 12yr is just such a whiskey. Ma ..read more

Tasting Notes:  The first Eclipse single barrel sold out so quickly we went ahead and grabbed the sister barrel and bottled it up just in time for Monday's HISTORIC celestial event. If you are looking for something to toast the eclipse with, what better way than an Indiana-made, Indiana-bottled, and Indiana-sold bourbon? 75% corn, 21% rye, 4% barley malt, aged 5 years and bottled at cask strength with no chill-filtration at 114.8 proof. Brown sugar tornado in the glass with a touch of mint and leather. On the palate, soft orchard fruit with a distinct tart cherry note along with signature ..read more

Tasting Notes:  Three year old Buffalo Trace, mashbill #1 bottled at 80 proof. First off, the ground work of Buff Trace is in every bottle, the baseline sweetness is there along with a young spice, that drinks a little hot, but for the price, it's hard to beat. The oak is foundational, and leans towards cinnamon on the palate finishing with a perfectly pleasant bite to go along with the vanilla, toffee, caramel sweetness apparent already even at this young age. No joke, grab a decanter and give this a try on a weeknight sipping neat ..read more