It was one other robust yr for the whisky nerds amongst us – which is, properly, all of us – as we tried to pare down the a whole bunch of choices we reviewed all through 2023 and give you an inventory of the ten that excited us essentially the most. Sure, we heard your cries from final yr: Too many luxe unicorns, not sufficient attainable juice. We’ve tempered our style for four-figure spirits this time round, and whereas many of the whiskeys we picked for 2023 price greater than $100, just one lands in what we’d think about unicorn territory. That stated, it actually deserves to be represented right here, so we couldn’t depart it out. Need extra alternatives? Try our vacation procuring information.
As at all times, we’re revealing one whiskey every day over the subsequent 10 days till we hit #1 on Christmas Eve. When you’re getting ready for the massive reveal, be happy to bask in a few of our earlier high 10 whiskey lists: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017. You can too search a number of shops at wine-searcher to search out the most effective costs on all these merchandise and extra.
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Keep tuned for tomorrow after we’ll replace the record with our #9 choose, counting down the highest 10 till Christmas Eve!
10. Filibuster Triple Cask Bourbon Tokaji Completed – I needed to battle fairly exhausting to get this whiskey on the record over quite a lot of different wonderful contenders, however since I’m the boss round right here, I received the battle ultimately. A part of that battle stems from the truth that this was a restricted launch that’s more and more exhausting (however not unimaginable) to search out. And it’s a pity, as a result of it’s certainly one of my favourite bourbons of the yr, mixing Filibuster’s Virginia-born distillate with some MGP inventory and letting all of it simmer in a Hungarian Tokaji wine barrel to complete issues off. The outcomes are magical, making for an intensely candy, nutty, fruity, and fragrant whiskey that may problem all the pieces you assume you recognize about bourbon. Right here’s hoping Filibuster tries one thing comparable once more subsequent yr. 112.8 proof. $120 -CN
Further reporting by Drew Beard, Frank Dobbins, and Rob Theakston.
