Content with the tag: Opinions

A reminder of my rating scheme

Num­bers don’t mean any­thing if they aren’t defined and put in per­spec­tive. A com­ment raised in my recent post here shows that I need to post my rat­ing scheme, which you will find in Malt Advo­cate mag­a­zine. (The reviews here on WDJK essen­tially are advanced reviews of what will be pub­lished in Malt Advocate’s Buyer’s […]

A Whisky Blogging “Code of Ethics”?

I was think­ing about this the past few days. The dozens of whisky blogs out there pro­vide a great ser­vice to the whisky indus­try and to whisky enthu­si­asts. This is the main rea­son why they received Malt Advo­cate magazine’s “Pio­neer of the Year” award.
But the down­side to blog­ging (in gen­eral) is that it is essentially […]

If you could have one bottle…

…which mag­i­cally refilled itself every time you fin­ished it, what would it be?
Yes­ter­day I asked you for top­ics you would like to dis­cuss here on WDJK. There are already some great sug­ges­tions. Today’s post is from one of those sug­ges­tions. (Thank you, Red.)
So, what would be YOUR bot­tom­less bot­tle of whisky?

More validation that blenders should taste the whiskeys they select and not just nose them.

I just spent time nos­ing and tast­ing Amer­i­can whiskey sam­ples. I am con­sult­ing for a com­pany that will be releas­ing a new whiskey in the near future.
I can’t go into detail (yet) on the what the whiskey will be, but one thing is (once again) per­fectly clear. Some whiskeys have great aro­mas and […]

My new policy on company-sponsored press trips

I have made the deci­sion to no longer accept “expenses paid” press trip invites by indi­vid­ual whisky com­pa­nies. If there’s a dis­tillery I want to visit, I’ll pay for the trip myself.
I actu­ally started this pol­icy effec­tive Jan­u­ary 1^st of this year (I have turned down sev­eral invites already to Ken­tucky and to Scot­land), but […]

Once again, you’re the subject of my editorial

For those of you who still aren’t sub­scribers to Malt Advo­cate mag­a­zine (hint!), I thought I would post my edi­to­r­ial from the new issue that just mailed. Why? Because the topic is about you!
Have a look:
Are you addicted to whisky?
Okay, maybe “addicted” might be too strong. But I don’t think “obses­sion” is.
Over the hol­i­days, I asked […]

One thing you can do while I’m away for a few days.

For those of you on Face­book, become a fan of Malt Advo­cate mag­a­zine. You can find the link here.
We’re just get­ting going, but we picked up 1,000 fans just in the past week. When I get back, I’ll be very active there too. Plus, you can post up your own thoughts on what­ever (whisky related) […]

Question: Did you get “the look” yet?

How many of you have ever got­ten “the look” from your spouse or sig­nif­i­cant other because of the amount of whiskies you pur­chased? And for those of you who have got­ten the look, when was it and how many bot­tles did you have?
I have to go back a cou­ple of decades, but I think it […]

Recommend a core whisk(e)y everyone should try.

I know that many of you are sea­soned whisky drinkers, but we also have many WDJK read­ers who are new to whisky and just try­ing to sort every­thing out.  Let’s help them. After all, that’s what friends are for, right?
Many of us don’t have a big bud­get, so we need to fac­tor cost into the […]

So, what’s the next trend in whisk(e)y?

My daugh­ter gave me her cold. (Well, let’s just say that I have the same thing she just had.) Half my voice is gone and many of my taste buds are tem­porar­ily MIA. It looks like I’m tak­ing a break from review­ing whiskies until they return.
So, I was won­der­ing: what do you think is going to […]