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I have been more than lucky to try a great number of excellent spirits over the last year. So, in good tradition and the spirit of a “the year in review” I am sharing the ten best liquors of 2021 with you. Yes, I know as always I am too late to make this a […]
The German whisky online shop Whic.de already bottles their own whisky. However, this edition is their first standard bottling. Following the current trend, the bottling is a heavily peated Islay Single Malt. So, let us see how the whisky turns out.
The topic of the second Spirited News in 2021 is rye whiskey. In this case both whiskies come from James E. Pepper. While one bottle is a fairly-regular but not less interesting barrel proof rye the other one tests out the limit of what is allowed to be called rye. Apart form that, the 1776 […]
Every year Plantation Rum releases new Single Cask bottlings. This year is no different, with a whooping number of elven different ones. I was lucky enough to get my hands on five samples of the whole range for 2020. So, let us see what master blender Alexandre Gabriel has in stall for us today!
The next bottling in Whic.de’s “The War of the Peat” comes from Islay. It might even come as a surprise that this was not the first whisky in the range. – After all, when thinking of smoky whisky, Islay is the first thing that comes to mind! So, let us take a closer look at […]
I am sorry for the break here on the blog, but moving took up all of my time. However, now I am back with two independently bottled single malts. Both are bottled at cask strength and older than 10 years old. Whic.de got their hands on a barrel of eleven-year-old Glen Moray and a 17-year-old […]
In the spirit of end-of-the-year top ten lists, I present to you the ten best spirits I tried in 2018. Due to the cherry eau de vie blind tasting, this year’s list is a little cherry eau de vie heavy. Yet, also two single malts, a Kummel, a rum and a cognac made it on […]
Like the previous Spirited News, this one is also a special edition. I do not even know what I am reviewing for you today. The only thing I know is that it is supposed to be whisky. However, it could be a bourbon, rye, single malt or even something completely different. On the one hand […]
Well, why my friends and me did not grow sugarcane or even distilled it, we got in the business of blending. – Not on a commercial level, but just for our sake. So, we decided to mix three different rums, two of which were already blends, and finish them in a small oak barrel. While […]
Even after the cherry eau die vie tasting here at Augustine-Bar.de, I am still intrigued to try others. This is why, I took the opportunity to review two excellent cherry eau de vies from renown producer Ziegler, when it presented itself. First, their Wildkirsch No. 1, is a legendary eau de vie and second, their […]
