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The Sassenach Blended Scotch
This next Exclusive Content Review will feature 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 16 Year French Oak 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 Casks. 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 Bourbon (Release 7: Batch MA-2)
Our second Exclusive Content review will finish up our two-part series comparing aged bourbons. For this review, we’ll be sipping Sam Houston 15 Year old from Release 7 Batch MA-2. After seeing iterations of this bottle on the shelves for a while, I decided to break down and take the plunge. Let’s see how it tastes….