Koval Single Barrel Four Grain Whiskey Vodka Mars Shinshu Iwai Tradition Whisky

Mars Shinshu Iwai Tradition Whisky guided tasting: Brad Japhe takes us on a tasting adventure through the Whiskeyverse of Advent Calendar 2021

the first of its kind

The Macallan 18 Year Old Sherry Oak is as luxurious as it comes: aged for almost two decades in cherry-picked ex-Oloroso Sherry casks straight from Jerez

10 years old Grande Champagne

Along the way they pioneered the technique of "marrying" where a blended Scotch is re-casked to allow for a period of aging together

Koval Single Barrel Four Grain Whiskey Vodka Mars Shinshu Iwai Tradition WhiskyYou can't call this a bourbon, but you can call it delicious. Koval is the first small batch distillery in Chicago since the dark days of the prohibition era, and one of the leading craft distilleries in the US. It was founded in 2008 by Robert and Sonat Birnecker who abandoned their academic careers to follow their hearts. Growing up, Robert lived near Salzburg, Austria, and was immersed in a culture of small batch distilling, so perhaps this is