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The Best Bourbons According To The Whiskey Wash Awards 2025

The Whiskey Wash

In the inaugural Whiskey Wash Awards , 45 bourbons were awarded a medal – Double Gold, Gold, or Silver. Nino Kilgore-Marchetti, The Whiskey Wash founder and reviewer, sampled this expression in June 2024, and was truly blown away. Although the age statement is 5 years, there are a number of older whiskeys in this bottle.

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What Does The Closure Of Waterford Distillery Mean For The Irish Whiskey Industry?

The Whiskey Wash

Waterford Distillery did things differently, focusing on the importance of terroir and sustainability, all the while producing some truly astonishing whiskey. The news of its closure certainly came as a shock to many given the recent growth of the Irish whiskey category. million worth of whiskey stocks. million, and €40.1

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Exploring Rum’s Vast Diversity and Range

Imbibe Magazine

Bourbon, scotch, Canadian whisky, Irish whiskey , tequila , Cognac, and armagnac are by international agreement all made within a single country, and sometimes one area within a country. Photo by Richard Wadey Now compare rum to whiskey. Think of whiskey as the genus, and bourbon, rye, scotch, and so forth, as species.

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“The big industry players tend to ferment at speed” – Waterford Distillery CEO Mark Reynier on making whiskey in the style of wine

Just Drinks

In 2015, Mark Reynier founded the Waterford Distillery and acquired Diageo’s brewery in County Waterford, Ireland.

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Whiskey Review: Garrison Brothers 2024 Guadalupe

The Whiskey Wash

(image via Garrison Brothers) Editor’s Note: This whiskey was provided to us as a review sample by the party behind it. This distillery introduced the first bourbon whiskey legally made in that state in 2010 and, subsequently, has released several bourbon-focused expressions from its small farm and ranch located in the Texas Hill Country.

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Whiskey Review: Teeling Whiskey Very Rare Cask 33 Year Pineau des Charentes Finish

The Whiskey Wash

Editor’s Note: The party behind this whiskey gave us a review sample. Teeling Irish Whiskey , established in Dublin, Ireland, in 2015, represented, at the time, one of the first of a new wave of Irish whiskey brands to emerge from a country with a once dominant whiskey scene.

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The Ultimate Guide To The Glendronach 15 Year Old

The Whiskey Wash

Allegedly, Walker wanted to revive age statements originally used by William Teacher & Sons’ blends in the 1960s, but it quickly became an open secret that the age statement bottlings contained considerably older stocks – the peak for The Glendronach 15 Year Old was in 2015, when consumers were actually enjoying a 21 Year Old whisky.

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