Starward is doing great things, but don’t start here. If this is a celebration, it’s more whimper than bang.
Overall Rating: ★☆☆
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Apricot
Not everything needs to be a showstopper. For the clarity of the taste experience on offer here, and at the price, I dig the Benchmark Single Barrel.
Overall Rating: ★★☆
Not the most expensive Irish, nor the fanciest, but it’s permanently on my mind when it comes to gifting for several good reasons.
Overall Rating: ★★★
It’s always a challenge to get people to pay big bucks for a Scotch without an age statement, and if you do it wrong people will remember. Here’s a good case study of when things go right.
Overall Rating: ★★☆
Quite honestly, a product in search of a reason to exist. If there’s a niche it fills, I’m not savvy enough to detect it.
Overall Rating: ⃠
I’ve had better, but I’ve certainly had worse. Compelling if you can find it cheap!
Overall Rating: ★☆☆
An affordable and quality-made rum that doesn't need to bludgeon you with sugar to get its point across. A nice change!
Overall Rating: ★★☆
A totally rock-solid cognac and representative of the category. So much so, in fact, that it becomes hard to find something novel about this bottle to talk about.
Overall Rating: ★★☆
Offensively bad at the price, made altogether worse by being positioned as a capable stand-in for a much better product. A total skip.
Overall Rating: ⃠
Support your smaller producer with this lesser-known but fully-capable cognac. The Hardy VS is a solidly crafted spirit that would serve as a great entry point for the cognac clueless. Overall Rating: ★★☆