Monthly Archives: January 2007

Rye Tasting I: The Old and the Familiar

(part of a series of posts on a recent panel tasting of 18 American rye whiskies that starts here. For more information on rye whiskey and additional tasting notes, pick up the January/February 2007 issue of Imbibe magazine.) Our panel was very lucky to have obtained samples of some of the rarest and most highly… Continue Reading

The Rye Chronicles

What the hell just happened? A few short years ago, when I first started getting into this cocktail thing, rye whiskey was like the secret handshake of the liquorati — if you knew about it, and mixed your drinks with it, and dropped that into conversation with a fellow traveller, it was the equivalent of… Continue Reading