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The Sassenach Blended Scotch
Today’s review features a celebrity brand in the blended Scotch category, The Sassenach. The celebrity attached to this brand is Sam Heughan, the co-start of the Starz original series, Outlander. This will be the first time that Nice Sipper reviews a blended Scotch as well as the first review of a “celebrity” whisky. Is this a money grab by Sam? Or is this the real deal? Let’s find out….
Bowmore 15 Year Old
This next Exclusive Content Review will feature Bowmore 15 Year Old single malt Scotch from the Isle of Islay. Since we had our first official snowfall of the year up by me yesterday, it seemed like the proper time to open up a bottle of peated single malt to warm up.
The Balvenie French Oak 16 Finished in Pineau Casks
For this next Exclusive Content Review, we will visit The Balvenie’s most recent release, the French Oak 16 Finished in Pineau Cask . In addition to sampling the new single malt scotch, we will also sip on some of the fortified wine that The Balvenie chose to finish its whisky in as well as sipping on The Balvenie’s 15 Year Sherry Cask Single Barrel and the DoubleWood 17 in an attempt to figure out how this new cask finishing influenced the core product. Buckle up….
Sam Houston 15 Year Old Bourbon (Release 7: Batch MA-2)
Welcome back to finish off our two-part series on aged bourbons. For the first review, we took a sip of Remus Repeal Reserve V and, while we ended up liking it, it took us a bit to get there. For this next review, we will be sipping Sam Houston 15 Year Old Bourbon. Another bottle that I have seen on the shelves for quite some time and finally broke down to pick one up. Let’s see how Sam tasted and compared with the Remus…
Remus Repeal Reserve V
I have seen a lot of hype around the Remus Repeal Reserve V, MGP’s in-house brand. This 2021 “medley” contains juice from two different high-rye bourbon mash bills, one with 21% Rye and one with 36% Rye. In addition to a variety of mash bills, the barrels in this release range from 2005 to 2008, making all the bourbon between 13-16 years old. In a follow up post, I will be tasting the Sam Houston 15 Year old and doing a comparison against this Remus since they are approximately the same age with similar proof profiles at 100 versus 103 proof.