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New Holland and its flagship Dragon’s Milk bourbon barrel-aged stout is, and was, a beer that always felt a step or two behind its pseudo-mass market, craft contemporaries in Founders’ KBS an...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/29/review-dragons-milk-origin-small-batch-bourbon/

A partnership between actress Cameron Diaz and entrepreneur Katherine Power, Avaline is a wine brand positioning itself as a clean, transparent option offering a full range of wines including whi...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/28/review-wines-of-avaline-2024/

We’ve been following the evolution of North Carolina’s Southern Distilling Company for a while now. It’s a craft distiller that seems to have achieved the enviable transition from quality s...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/28/review-hunting-creek-rye-whiskey/

Podere Sapaio’s eponymous Supertuscan is a standout from the moment you open the bottle. (The name comes from Sapaia, a very old Tuscan grape variety.) A blend of 70% cabernet sauvignon, 20% pe...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/27/review-2019-sapaio-toscana-igt/

Old Tom gin was popular in the eighteenth century and appears to be making something of a comeback today. That stated, there is no clear definition of what Old Tom gin actually is. It typically d...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/27/review-freeland-spirits-old-tom-gin/

You’ve seen the ads. You know the couple behind it. There’s nothing left to do here but toss out an “está bien, está bien, está bien” for Matthew and Camila McConaughey’s tequila, wh...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/26/review-tequila-pantalones-blanco/

Shaw-Ross International Importers is bringing a new Japanese whisky to U.S. shores: Maen (pronounced “Mi-en”), which means “perfect circle” in Japanese and is evoked by the calligraphed c...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/26/review-maen-japanese-whisky-complete-lineup/

Forever there has been only one expression of The Botanist gin. The bottle has changed, but the recipe hasn’t, and the line extensions that other brands have undertaken haven’t ever come to t...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/25/review-the-botanist-islay-gin-cask-rested-and-cask-aged/

Origen Holistic Spirits soft-sells its celebrity backing, which boasts wellness entrepreneur Amy Holmwood and actor Woody Harrelson as its faces behind the stills. The company is (thank God) not ...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/25/review-origen-holistic-spirits-specialty-vodka-and-harmony-gin/

If you didn’t think you’d find room for innovation and new blood in old school Cognac, look no further than the Naud family, which revived an old distillery and has been making Cognac here si...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/24/review-naud-cognac-vsop/

Last year, WhistlePig made headlines with the launch of a 21 year old single malt sourced from Canada, arguably the oldest single malt whiskey that the Americas has ever seen produced. The Behold...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/24/review-whistlepig-single-malt-25-years-old-the-badonkadonk/

Casey Jones Distillery in Hopkinsville, Kentucky is a relatively new distillery on the scene, but they put the whiskey community on notice when taking home Best in Show from the 2023 American Cra...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/23/review-casey-jones-single-barrel-wheated-bourbon/

Codigo 1530 is back with another tequila release, and it’s what you’d expect: A cristalino, albeit one made from a reposado base, not an anejo. As as refresher, the reposado is aged in cabern...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/23/review-tequila-codigo-1530-cristalino-resposado/

Napa’s Gamble Family Vineyards is the proprietor of acreage in some of the valley’s most venerable AVAs including Rutherford, Mt. Veeder, Yountville and Oakville. We’ve had the pleasure of ...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/22/review-2023-gamble-family-vineyards-sauvignon-blanc/

The latest rum from the Hemingway-inspired Papa’s Pilar Rum brand is another luxe bottling that not only honors the company’s namesake but also another man, surfing legend Greg Noll. This is ...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/22/review-papas-pilar-rum-legacy-edition-2023/

In the last three years, we have managed to tour almost the entire portfolio of offerings from Argentina’s Domaine Bousquet. Still, somehow, we have not had the pleasure to enjoy the vineyard�...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/21/review-domaine-bousquet-cameleon-2021-cabernet-sauvignon-and-2022-chardonnay/

Heaven’s Door has become a juggernaut of whiskeydom, to the point where we’ve lost count of the number of expressions the outfit has cranked out to date. The good news is they are almost unif...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/21/review-heavens-door-the-exploration-series-i-calvados-finish/

La Prenda Wines was founded in 2008 by Ned and Erika Hill, who named the winery after the street where Ned’s father grew up. They are proud of their Sonoma terroir and make wines that highlight...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/20/review-wines-of-la-prenda-2024-releases/

Heaven Hill’s first 2024 release of the Old Fitzgerald bottled in bond series has arrived with extra-special vibes attached: This release commemorates the 25th anniversary of Heaven Hill acquir...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/20/review-old-fitzgerald-bottled-in-bond-13-years-old-25th-anniversary-edition-vvs-2024/

Napa’s Eleven Eleven Winery is back with a new Cabernet called XI: An “estate melange” of 11:11 and Destin Vineyards fruit: 82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Merlot, 6% Malbec, 2% Cabernet Franc, ...

https://www.drinkhacker.com/2024/04/19/review-2020-eleven-eleven-xi-cabernet-sauvignon-oak-knoll-district/