The Best Whiskies of 2023
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Episode 556. We are very nearly at the end of 2023. Here are my 9 or 10 picks of excellent whisky across most categories. All are afforable and worth checking out. Thank you for dropping by and especially for sharing your thoughts on this journey together. I wish each of you a fantastic 2024. Cheers! #bestwhiskey #happynewyear2024 #whiskyneighbour
00:00 Introduction
01:43 Best Scotch
02:34 Best Peated Scotch
03:34 Best Blended Scotch
04:49 Best Bourbon
06:00 Best Cask Strength Bourbon
06:50 Best Rye
07:56 Best Canadian
09:24 Best Irish
10:34 Best International
12:11 Best Unique Whisky
13:14 Whisky of the Year 
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Well done Jon, you sherry monster head... you can never have enough sherry my friend....happy new year to you and yours my friend, see you for more in 2024.....
LOL! Thanks. Somehow the Sherry really took over this year. Not that I'm actually complaining. Great to hear your thoughts through the year too, and all the best in 2024. Cheers!
Hi Jon. Wasn’t around much this year. You always have amazing picks for your end of the year video. Sherry rocks can’t deny that lol. Here’s to more whiskey tube success in the coming year. Cheers 🥃
It was good to see you a few times, but certainly missed sharing a few more drams together virtually. I hope you are well, and Cheers to 2023!
Thank you for a very upbeat presentation on your whiskies of the year! I'm very partial to a sherry style of whisky during the winter but my palate prefers something more fruity during the long summer evenings eg an Arran single malt or the Noble Rebel blended malt. Our range of ryes and Bourbons isn't large in the UK but we can easily pick up Eagle Rare 10, WT 101 and Makers Mark. I will check out our online sources for your Milam and Greene Rye recommendation. Happy New Year to you and all who visit the channel. Cheers
Love Arran malt, such good fruit. Thanks for your kind wishes, and I hope you have a Happy New Year too!
Nice present. Those Benromach 100 imperial proof are legendary. The current CS bottles are still wonderful too. Cheers
I am very thankful! Thanks for dropping in throughout the year. Happy New Year, and I hope you have a fantastic 2024!
I was hoping Santa was going to bring that Milam and Greene port finished rye but I think I did okay with my very first Bookers(Charlie's Batch). Alberta is the only Province that carries Milam & Greene products so you are very lucky to be able to pick it up off the shelf. Showing my envy again for that 22 year old Pike Creek. That simply isn't available in the Province where it's made. It's all good it will make the hunt challenging and the acquisition even more enjoyable.
With all those awesome whiskies it must have been hard to pick your favourite of the year. Thanks for reviewing them. I look forward to more in 2024
I wish we had better distribution across Canada. Glad you got Charlie's batch though and I hope you enoy it! Thanks for dropping in, the samples, and for all the good will. Cheers, and Happy New Years!
Pike Creek 22 PX was available in Ontario. They don't sell out in Alberta that fast because of the ungodly selection of Whisk(e)y out there.
@@peterwhite507 LOL!! You might be right 😀
Great picks Jon! I’ve got my list coming out tonight at 5pm PST. Hope to see you there!
I will drop in for sure. Happy New Years!!
Ahh wonderful, thanks so much for trying Killowen in your line up. That was an excellent line up, well done! 😁🙏🥃
Thank you for putting out excellent whiskey! I hope to try more the coming year!
@@WhiskyNeighbour Hey me too! This is an amazing distillery with spectacular expressions!
@killowendistilleryltd4823 Well, you're certainly now on my radar. One day...I will find you! Cheers all, and a Happy New Year to your whole distillery crew 🎉 Marian 🇨🇦
@@onewomanswhisky happy New year Marian. Hope it's a good one. Looking forward to meeting you soon
@@onewomanswhiskyKillowen is difficult for me to find in Vancouver but I have had a couple of their expressions and they were delicious! High quality and so nice to explore! Happy New Year!
Ah, Benromach, it is just so under appreciated - very good actually, since their prices haven't gone crazy yet😉 They have a similar new bottling, a NAS cask strength also with a bit of sherry influence. Happy new year🙂
Happy New Year to you too. I hope you and Jacob are well. I will need to look out for that NAS. This 10 is excellent for me. Cheers!
Love to see that 1910 cracking the list this year! A damn delicious bourbon. Great list. Cheers Jon.
Thanks for dropping in, and glad you enjoy the 1910 too! Cheers!
Jon, great line up and great theme. It goes without saying, you had plenty of sherried whiskies in 2023. I was going in a similar direction earlier in the year and had to mix up some bourbon matured bottles along the way to keep my palate acquainted. Thankfully, I loved every bottle I opened in 2023...scotches, bourbons, irish, Indian, Japanese all provided different and unique experiences throughout the year. What a year and excited for 2024!!! Happy New Year in advance.
Glad you could correct you palate during the year! Also wonderful you had so may good releases. Thanks for dropping in and sharing a dram too. Cheers, adn early Happy New Year!
I really enjoyed the video wrapping up 2023. I'll be rooting for you to become a global RUclipsr in 2024!
Lol! Thanks, even if I do not, I sure enjoy sharing some good whisky here together. Also great to connect when we can, Cheers!
I’ve never had the pleasure of having a cardeais but I love a px and laphroaig so I’d probably shoot for that but I’ve seen a lot about Indri, I must admit I’ve been mainly into scotch and Irish this year but I definitely need to keep an eye on that one for 2024! I also really need to try a Canadian too, have a great new years to you and your family and I look forward to watching your reviews in 2024, all the best!
Thank you, and I hope a few excellent Canadian releases make it out your way. Happy New Year my friend!
Great video, Jon! Some wonderful whisky on your table. Glad you can finally get OF1910 locally. Thanks to you, I picked up the port-finished Milam & Greene as it's readily available here in Texas. Need to get some other samples to you in 2024. Happy New Year, Jon!
I hope you enjoy the Milam & Greene! Thank you for all your kindness over the years. Cheers to a great 2024!
Merci Jon. As always a very good video. Thanks for the review. Always appreciate the reviews. Whishing you a Happy New Year full of health and happiness. I am looking forward to your 2024 reviews. All the best to you and your family.
Thank you for the kind words! I hope your 2024 is also full of Happiness! Cheers!
Cheers Jon !
Happy New Year to you!
Cheers!
Happy New Year!
Make no apologies for being on Team Sherry. It's a good team. 😀 To some degree I think it's harder to find 100% bourbon-cask matured malt that isn't either peated or very young. At least that's my excuse. 😂😂 Thanks for all of the great whisk[e]y talk in 2023 and here's to a fantastic 2024 ... cheers!
Thanks for the reassurance! Also, thanks for droping in and sharing your thoughts and encouragement. Cheers to a wonderful 2024!
Some cool choices in there, Jon. Many of which I haven't had. Another great video, cheers. 🥃
Thank you for dropping in! I hope you have a fantastic New Years!
Very nice assortment and refreshing that you didn't follow suit with the other tubers who seem to share the same list. Agree on the Booker's. One of my best too. Cheers!
Glad you enjoyed it, and great you have had this Booker's release too. Cheers, and Happy New Years!
I fell in love with Benromach this year as a distillery. Everything I try from them is great. Nice to see it on your list.
They have certainly been a big part of the journey last year. Putting out excellent Scotch. Thanks for dropping in!
I just finally got a bottle of 1910 myself. It's here in Alberta en masse which is great. And hard to beat for 65 buckaroos. Jon would you have picked a Canadian whisky if you didn't have a specific category for it? Kind of begging the question. Sure hope Canada can pull their socks up and provide some improvement in the coming years. Notwithstanding Two Brewers/Shelter Point and some of the others....but not too many. Enjoy your 2024. Happy New Year to you and all of your viewers. Cheers!!
That is a great, yet tough question. This year, likely might not have. Though I would have given that shout out to Odd Society. Very creative. That said, the 22 is solid, and a great age/value. Overall I agree, we can put out more interesting liquid then we did this year! Cheers!
It's so hard to do these lists. I think my favourites were Green Spot Chateau Montelena, Scallywag 10, and Kilkarren 12.
Those are great whiskies! Although I have not had the Sacllywag, but I hear great things. I agree, these lists are basically impossible. So I tend to scroll through the feed of the year, see what I still have around and share some thoughs on good whisky! It's better in the sharing anyway. Cheers, and Happy New Years!
Well done Jon! Happy new year good sir!
Thank you! Happy New Year to you too!
Happy New Year to you and yours. Interesting choices which will be a useful guide for future purchases.
I hope you have a Happy New Year too, with many interesting drams and stories to come! Cheers!
Pike Creek 22 rock's, I bought Two from my LCBO and one from BSW. I am a big Macaloney's fan also. Kildara.
I need to get a bottle of Macaloney's in 2024! Happy New Years!
@kenwilson42 Just received a bottle of the Kildara for Yule, opening tonight to share with friends. Guessing she's going to be good!
Already cracked the sherried Cath-Nah-Aven, and it's a beauty. Haven't had a bad whisky from Graeme Macaloney's distillery yet. Really looking forward to trying this one. Happy New Year Ken, and cheers! 🥃
Marian 🇨🇦
wow - those are some great bottles - HAPPY NEW YEAR Jon!!
It was a good year! Happy New Year to you too!!
Great list of whiskies, Jon! I’ll have to pick up that Milam & Greene rye😊🥃🎉
Thanks for dropping in, and the many good wishes throughout the year. I certainly recommend this one, so goo. Cheers, and Happy New Years!
Thank you very much Jon for your friendly, homey channel. I am so glad I stumbled onto your's. Of all of your choices, I have only tried the Milam & Greene (I am also on my second bottle). It is also my rye of the year. Your comments on this rye are spot on. This would be my whiskey of the year if it wasn't for Glenglassaugh Torfa. Thank you for your warmth and kind spirit as all of the folks from Alberta - spent some time in Alberta a few years ago. May you find even better whisk(e)y in 2024. Happy New Year. Slàinte Mhath!
Thank you for your kind words! I have not had the pleasure of trying the Torfa, but good to hear it is excellent. Happy New Year to you too, and hope you enjoy many excellent drams!!
Good recap! Great choices!! Btw- MacAloney’s is doing some of their own peating of malts using Cdn barley and Washington and BC peat! Hopefully you get to check it out!! Good stuff
Thank you for the encouragement and information on Macaloney's. I really need to check them out! Cheers!
Awesome picks man cheers 🥃🥃
Thanks, Happy New Year!
Excellent year end round up. I've enjoyed all of these as well at some point or another and some absolute beauties in your picks. I look forward to more meet ups and shared drams over the next year and beyond. Cheers my friend!
Thanks for all the encouragement this year and all the whiskey. So many of my best pours came in sample bottles from you! I have you have an amazing 2024!
@WhiskyNeighbour I hope.to be able to share even more this coming year!!
Happy New Year, Jon. So appreciate your thoughtful reviews and passion around whiskey.
Happy New Year to you too. What whiskies have stood out for you this year?
Ah man that PX Cairdeas is amazing!
Agreed!!
The SLB father and son duo from Indiana had the Milam and Green rye in their lineup of top whiskeys as well. I might have to pick one up.
Very cool! It certainly resonates with my palate, I hope you can. Happy New Years!
Nice list, a few I need to try there. I'm not sure where you found Pike Creek 22 year old in the Edmonton area. My favorite Canadian whisky this year was the Diony Campfire from Red Deer.
Wild! I have not even heard of Diony. Now I need to hunt it down. Thanks for sharing, and Cheers!
when you mentioned the Old Forester profile, and how you liked it, that was really useful! I actually dislike the 1910 and the 1920 even more and OF is teetering on the edge of oblivion for me. Stuff like that is great to help me calibrate my preferences against an online reviewer such as yourself.
It is always about personal taste. The more you know about what I like, the better you can calibrate. You don't like 1920 either? What bourbon do you enjoy?
@@WhiskyNeighbour predominantly a scotch drinker and scotch adjacent products from Japan, Taiwan, India, etc. ASM from the US as well. Bourbon... it's been a slow road to discovering my palate but I'm gravitating towards fruit and floral forward stuff and much prefer when the oak and tannins are turned down. Knob Creek, Frey Ranch, Wild Turkey, Elijah Craig, LAWS, EW1783, Eagle Rare are one's a quite like. I do like Balcones which is oak forward, but I would describe it as having a very soft oak and low low tannins.
Stuff I won't buy again: Four Roses SB, OF1920/1910, Bulleit, Maker's Mark, JD Single Barrel, Elijah Craig Small Batch, Buffalo Trace.
Personally, the WRDO is often touted as the 1910's direct competitor and I do prefer it by more than just a bit. Though honestly, I think the Balcones Single Malt or Lineage is what both WRDO and OF1910 are trying to accomplish.
@eviltrain24 thanks for sharing your insights. I have not had Lineage , but certainly have appreciated drams from Balcones before. I hope you enjoy many great whiskies in the new year!
Great lineup Jon, I keep missing out on the Killowen from the online stores out there.
This is still sourced, but they are picking and finishing well. I hope you can find one soon. Cheers, and Happy New Years!
that boutique-y whisky's 30 year old blended grain is incredible
Might need to drive down to Calgary just to pick it up!
@@WhiskyNeighbour available online at craft
Hey John, I really enjoyed watching your reviews this year. Just wanted to say merry Christmas and happy new year. I don’t know if you saw my other message but I have those three samples for you. I just need to know how to get them to you if you come to Calgary in the next little while, that could work too. Let me know.
Hello. I did see, and thanks! That is amazing!. My email is whiskyneighbour@gmail.com I prefer not to put my address here on RUclips. Also, we could wait a bit. I may get to Calgary in the new year and then could pick them up. Thanks again, and merry Christmas and now a Happy New Year!
Terrific theme Jon! I do love my sherry casks! Nothing to fix and just more to try for 2024! I have tried some of these expressions and I'd love to try them all! Your Canadian choice is wonderful! I didn't know what to expect but I am happily surprised! I have to rave about the Laphroaig! It's powerful and so delicious! Who doesn't love a good punch with Laphroaig and that ABV?! I very much want to try the Rye! Wow i looks gorgeous. I am a huge Rye fan with deep flavours and a good punch of spice and I'd love to experience Rye paired with Port! I will definitely search this out. Hey have you tried this year's newly released Big Peat? This is my first year with it and I am really finding that I am enjoying it. On the first bottle I felt I wanted more complexity and now, on reflection, I am finding that after I bought a second bottle. Over the holidays I got cleaned out on our first bottle! Friends wanted to try it and thankfully even though there were only 600 bottles released I managed to get a second bottle and a backup when I went tonight to see if it was still available. Tonight I thoroughly enjoyed 2 drams of this awesome expression! $115 in BC and probably cheaper in AB! My husband managed to get a Elijah Craig C923 about a month ago and that got cracked open over Christmas and what a delicious Bourbon. I was very pleased. He got it in the U.S. on a business trip and I had heard so much about it and read a lot, that I was kind of excited to give it a try. I think you would enjoy it very much and I hope we all see it here in Canada. I don't know why we miss out on some excellent expressions. Terrific video Jon! I hope you had an amazing Christmas. I am ready to bring in a New Year with a nice casual quiet evening for NYE with a few close friends and just kick back and be with people who have known my husband and me since we all met in university! Fun times! Happy 2024!! I hope it's your best year ever!! Peace and care!! By the way I was briefly in AB for a couple of days just to see my niece and her family, drop off gifts and enjoy time with my niece and her family, and I thought, "Where's the snow in St. Albert?!!" Usually when I visit this time of year it's snow, snow, snow!! Lol! We BCers aren't used to that!! Cheers!
I am sure you would love this Rye, it really is gorgous. I have not had this year's Big Peat, do you mean the one finished in Sherry Casks? It would fit right in with this year's unintentional theme! So awesome your husband picked up an EC C923, I hear amazing things. I am lucky too, as a friend send me a sample to try. I am thinking of doing it blind with the out 2023 releases. NYE with old friends sounds perfect. We might even just do it with our immediate family. We've had a great holiday, but we're all a little tired and my son actually works the next day, so nothing too crazy here. We are missing the snow for sure, so will our trees. Hopefully it comes soon. Thank you for the encouragement, the good wishes and for always being positive. I wish you and your family a wonderful 2024 with lots of good stories and I hope a few nice drams. Cheers to 2024!
Surprised you didn’t pick a found north? This NDP seems to be huge in many circles. And I’m with you with the bookers even the so so bottles are great to me.
I would love to pick Found North. Sadly, they do not release in Canada and I have yet to even try a sample. Hopefully I can fix that in 2024. Happy New years!
Benromach 10 cask strength is definitely still being released, just has completely different branding to your bottle now
I would love to sip the two side by side. It would be a fun comparison
So...have you planned out that addition to the house yet, for whisk(e)y storage? 😂
That's quite the lineup for 2023. Intrigued by a few of these, I've added a couple to The List.
Two favourite sherried whiskies for me this year were the Lindores 'Casks of Lindores' Oloroso, and the Macaloney's 'Cath-Nah-Aven'.
Tasty drams all round! Cheers 🥃
"m"e 🇨🇦
The Macaloney's is on the list! Thanks for sharing, and I hope you have a wonderful 2024!
@@WhiskyNeighbour By the bye, Odd Society isn't the only distillery smoking. Macaloney's does their own malt on site as well. Siol Dugall is just one of the peated expressions, medium at 27 ppm, and it is a beautiful thing.
@onewomanswhisky Does Macaloney's do their own malting? Odd Society uses German malt, but only in a gin bag. The distillery cannot be BC Craft if it distills malt from outside of BC.
@@WhiskyNeighbour According to their website. BC barley, and peat smoked at the distillery. Don't think I read it wrong? But definitely let me know if I've misunderstood, I'd rather have the right facts. No idea if they actually malt there. I was just thinking of the smoking part. I phrased that incorrectly, I think.
@@onewomanswhisky I'm sure you are right! Just last May I spent time with the majority of Craft Distillers in BC. They were saying no one was peating BC malt. However, they could be saying no one is selling, peated BC malt! Macaloney's could be doing their own for sure. I think I need to plan a trip out there. Also, bite the bulleit and purchase a few of their releases. Priced a little high, but not if they are as good as you say!
you should grab that boutiqe-y blended 30 year old grain on craft. 20% til dec 31. its extraordinary
Sounds fantastic! Thanks for the recommendation, I'm sure it's much better than the humble Fool here!
@@WhiskyNeighbour the 30 is in completely different league. It's exceptional. The depths and roundness of its age really comes through in all sorts of aroma
Jon have you tried JB Legent? Sherry finished bourbon, blended by the head blender at Suntory.
I have, and enjoy it! Do you enjoy any of these? Cheers!
@@WhiskyNeighbour only the Bookers. Lol you've convinced me to try the Milam and Greene
@deathblade01 I hope you enjoy it too!