Author Archives: Sjoerd de Haan-Kramer

This is not a post I should have done before, when blogging about the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection Bottle-Share. This is ‘just’ a tasting note for the standard Buffalo Trace bourbon. Nose: Quite a nice bourbony smell comes off this … Continue reading →

Our local liquor shop, Drinks & Gifts, organized a Rum tasting yesterday with 7 rums by Plantation. This is a French company that finds its roots in cognac, but bottles high quality rums as well. The presentation was given by … Continue reading →

Finally, after long weeks of not getting around to it, I have tasted and reviewed all 5 Buffalo Trace Antiques we samples in the previous Bottle-Share. As I expected by the good reviews they were getting on other websites, the … Continue reading →

The most recent version of the Thomas H. Handy was the one I was able to get for the Bottle-Share, and as I told here yesterday, I owed you a review. I tasted an earlier of this whiskey and was … Continue reading →

Today, no tasting notes for the simple reason that I have not had the time to write them early this morning, and I forgot to take my notes with me… I decided to write a general update on things happening, … Continue reading →

This whiskey came up on Twitter last week, and the general consensus was that its terrible. Now, my point of view: Nose: Sweet and oily corn syrup with an industrial edge. Like someone spilled bourbon on a factory floor. Also … Continue reading →

Greenore. Its an Irish grain whiskey which was in the news a bit last year. It won many prizes and lots of people were very enthousiastic about it. Of course, I am willing to try this kind of stuff, especially … Continue reading →

The BenRiach has given its whiskies all kinds of Latin sounding names since they reopened in 2004. This one, as you can guess by the name is a smoky one, and (substantially less obvious) has been finished on Dark Rum … Continue reading →

Yesterday evening, I partook in a Twitter tasting with 3 different editions of the Tullibardine distillery. I only tasted one Tullibardine before and have not even taken tasting notes of that one yet. The evening was a huge success with … Continue reading →

I still hadn’t tasted the George T. Stagg sample I had from the last Bottle-Share and thanks to Ewald, a fellow Usquebaugh Society member I got samples of the 2008 and 2009 version as well. I decided to put them … Continue reading →