When I learned of the George Dickel whiskey finished in Tabasco barrels, I immediately wondered what their new distiller, Nicole Austin, thought. The talented Austin loathes gimmicks, and I imagined her kicking a trash can across the distillery. The can rolls to the sound of […]

Diageo announced its latest Orphan Barrel, the tenth in the collection. The company said Rhetoric 23-year-old originates from whiskey distilled between 1990 and 1993 at the Bernheim when United Distillers owned it. Bourbon Hall of Famer Edwin Foote would have been the distiller then, and […]