Elijah Craig 18 years old

This stuff is terrific! Elijah Craig was the geezer who first discovered that putting liquor into charred oak barrels gave it a fantastic and original taste, thus inventing Kentucky bourbon. Appropriately, this bottle - the oldest Single Barrel Bourbon available in the world - is named after him. It's a classic bourbon, packed with vanilla and oak but slightly spicy too. There's some sherry in there, but not too much (some of the supermarketey ones are way overloaded with it for my taste), and a kind of earthy, corny woody flavour that's lends it a kind of down-to-earth pleasantness. This is a whisky that it's all too easy to drink, but one with ...  Read the complete review