Author: Wes

Senior Staff Writer, Wes, was born and raised in Darlington, South Carolina and attended college at the United States Air Force Academy. After flying helicopters for the Air Force and teaching at the Air Force Academy, he retired in beautiful Colorado Springs, Colorado, after twenty years of military service. He now works in public school education, is married with three children, and leads the monthly Proper Pour Whisk(e)y Club. You can follow him on Twitter @WesModernThirst and e-mail him at [email protected].

[amazon_link asins=’B000AV16H0,B003QX2JMA’ template=’MT-product-carousel’ store=’modernthirstc-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’e5b867ac-ab24-11e8-b82d-3bb92de98420′] MUSINGS The third review in our six part series on The Balvenie Distillery is The Balvenie 14 Year Old Caribbean Cask. Jeremy and I have tasted and revisited all seven bottlings a few times individually and with our Proper Pour Whisk(e)y Club.  In our first Balvenie review we touched on two bottlings of The Balvenie DoubleWood 12-Year Old – a 2014 bottling that has been open for a few years and a newer 2017 bottling (an interesting comparison) and then we recently discussed The Balvenie 12-Year Old Single Barrel. The final three tastings will be…

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