Springbank 21yo 46% & Fuente Fuente Opus X Lost City
The Springbank 21 is hard to come by and it costs a shit load of money. How good is it? Paired it with an Opus X Lost city – Double Robusto. Is that worth all the hype?
Reviews
SMWS 38.24 Caperdonich 26yo Refill XBourb
Want something a little rarer? SMWS 38.24 will tick that box. Drinking this is liquid history. Closed and extinct distillery – question is, Are you ‘Baller’ enough? Make sure you pair something luxurious with this.
The Irishman: The Price Paid
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black Last month Martin Scorsese drew the ire of millennials with a condemnation of Marvel movies, as mere ‘theme parks’ and ‘not cinema’. If anyone has earnt the right to opine on the art of film its Scorsese. He has made a
Rocky Patel Vintage 1990
Now this isn’t a new cigar… or even new to NZ. But somehow its managed to go un-reviewed by me (even though I have smoked a good few) and if my memory serves me, it definitely doesn’t have the stature it should have here. “The Rocky Patel Vintage
Diamond Crown Julius Caeser
“It was 1895 when Hungarian émigré Julius C. Newman founded a cigar company in his family’s barn in Cleveland. Today his grandsons Eric and Bobby run what he began, making J.C. Newman one of the oldest cigar companies around.” so there you go, that’s why Caeser is
Cadenhead 20yo 45.2% Creations
You may have heard of ‘Blended Whisky’ like Johnnie walker. Except for the Green 15yo (not this bull shit ‘Island green’ and the Gold label), Johnnie Walker is generally rubbish. It is designed for people who can’t be bothered exploring whisky (No offence – Sorry but not sorry) Cadenhead makes
Caol Ila 32yr old 1983 – 2016 – 49.3% Signatory Vintage Cask strength
You can drink whisky because it is ‘smooth’ or you can drink it because you love experiences. This is one for experience. Thought provoking, a part of history, old fashioned and influenced by decades sleeping in a barrel. What a treat! BUT, it’s expensive – probably will cost you your
Ford vs Ferrari: Hooray for Cars and Capitalism
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black Here’s a pub question worth a beery rumination: Who did the most for the cause of human freedom in the twentieth century? Sir Winston Churchill? Martin Luther King? Ronald Reagan? An eccentric choice but not one without a sound argument
Talisker 8yr 59.4% 2018 Diageo Special Release OB
Talisker is a distillery that can be polarising because some think it’s like drinking Diesel while some like drinking diesel so they like Talisker. None the less, Most Taliskers are low ABV, because Diageo and big corporates tend to water down whisky – they say its for our drinking pleasure
SMWS Review: 4.251
So this is a highland park. If you are not across it – SMWS is an independent bottler. They are generally pretty good, love them in fact but as the famous words of bad Santa goes : “They can’t all be winners’ This one was not the prime example of the
Blair Athol and Cohiba Talisman 2017: Baptism by fire
Signatory vintage cask strength Blair Athol 58.9% 27 years old 1988 to 2016 – 93 of 520 – Cask #6851 matured in a refill Sherry butt. paired with: The Cohiba Talisman2017 This may have ruined my life. Blair Athol, Glorious dram. Cohiba Talisman – Luxury Personified or in this case, ‘Cigarified’ Blair
Dr Sleep: Where’s Johnny?
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black Dr Sleep, the long awaited, much belated sequel to the classic horror The Shining is a bonfire of lost opportunities. The original Stephen King novel of an alcoholic writer, Jack Torrance and his wife and psychic child stranded in the Overlook
The three Laphroaig Stooges
Laphroaig is usually something that people say they drink – because they have not had any other whisky or they think it’s cool. OR in the rare occasion they actually like it. I kid I kid, Just being a dick. Laphroaig is polarising because it tastes like ashtrays. It is
Punch Diablo
The first line I ever read about this cigar was enough to make me want to smoke it. “The fullest and darkest Punch to date” lets take a look at what makes this just that. BrandPunch LineDiabloSizeDiabolus 5 1/4 x 54WrapperEcuadorian SumatraBinderConnecticut BroadleafFillerHonduras & Nicaraguan If that wasn’t
Terminator: Dark Fate
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black So let’s get the plot of the Terminator saga straight: Big bad Arnold Swarze-wish-I-could-spell-his-name was sent from a future of sentient machines to our past to kill the mother of a future leader of a human rebellion against the machines.
Guardian of the farm – Nightwatch
Having smoked many of the original blends of the Guardian of the Farm I was excited to hear of the new release then reading the details of this stick pre-release I have to say I was pretty damn eager to get my hands on some. Let’s take a look