
Has sweet hints of maple syrup, cocoa, and marshmallow with some lavender on the nose and blackberries. The George Dickel x Leopold Bros Collaboration Blend is only available in select US markets (109.99). A smooth, single malt matured in bourbon and sherry casks for extra layers of flavour, this softer offering. Stealing the show at the 2021 London Spirits Competition with Whisky of the Year and Best in Show by Country (Ireland) titles, the remarkable Irish whiskey. What came next is the best rye whiskey blend of 2021. And even though we went with 50 for thematic reasons, we did not include a whiskey from each state (sorry, South Dakota). Tomatin Cask-Strength: Best cask strength whisky. Nicole Austin, general manager and distiller at George Dickel, was named Distillery Manager of the Year Ncnean Distillery took the award for Sustainable.

Then you’ve got our criteria for inclusion, which was admittedly pretty loose - many of these hail from a few select distilleries and the larger brands they supply, but others are tiny and regional.
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And one of the most popular whiskey brands we’re still not quite sure how to discuss. We didn’t have room for everything we like (see: those four brands we just mentioned) and I’m positive we outright forgot a few. The Tasting: The Fifty Best held a blind tasting of 12 flavored whiskies with twelve members of our spirits. Johnnie-Walker-Black-Label-Blended-Scotch-Whisky Johnnie Walker Black Label Blended Scotch Whisky. Without spending too much time on a history lesson - though we suggest quickly familiarizing yourself with the Whiskey Rebellion, Nearest Green and the Bottled-in-Bond Act - we simply wanted to profile 50 American whiskeys we appreciate on this, our Independence Day weekend.Īs with any list, there are omissions (1792, Rittenhouse, Old Overholt and Willet immediately spring to mind). The Fifty Best Flavored Whiskey Tasting 2021. Whiskey is not an American invention, but the best domestic iterations certainly have their own fanciful backstories and flavor profiles (and we can claim bourbon and Tennessee whiskey as our own).
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(Updated 6/28/22 with new entries and bottles)
