George Dickel Cascade Hollow 100cl

George Dickel Rye

As I continue my exploration into rye whiskies, I saw this on sale for $23 and decided to give it a shot. I haven't had a lot of George Dickel in my life, despite living 2 hours from Tullahoma, and I bought two this month. The only reason one would ever go to Tullahoma is to visit the distillery, otherwise it's a very small town with nothing to...

Score 70/100

George Dickel Hand Selected Barrel for Seaport W&S

I reviewed a single barrel, cask strength Dickel that was bottled for Premier Wine & Liquors, some years back, and gave it a 91. Like that one, this one is 9 years old, bottled for Seaport W&S, NYC Financial District (a nice little store, I recommend it). I bought it there on my last trip to NYC; they had the actual (empty) barrel in the...

Score 89/100

George Dickel Hand Selected Barrel 9 Year Old

George Dickel is the only other Tennessee whiskey distillery still in existence. Currently owned by Diageo, it was founded in the 1870s by a Nashville merchant who had immigrated from Germany (guess what his name was). When Prohibition hit Tennessee in 1910, the distillery moved to Kentucky, where it was soon acquired by Schenley. They moved it...

Score 91/100

George Dickel 9 Year Old Hand Selected Barrel

The Cascade Hollow Distillery – producer of the George Dickel bourbon – is the only other distillery (Jack Daniel’s being the first) that uses the so-called Lincoln County Process. This is the filtering of the spirit through the charcoal of the sugar maple before putting it to sleep in a cask. So this too can be called a Tennessee Whiskey. This 9...

Score 86/100