Best Value
Some deals are just too good to pass up. Our Best Value category digests that rarest of breeds: Top-rated products at prices that are incredibly appealing. We include products across the board in this section.
Top Best Value Posts:
Top 10 Bourbons Under $20
Wines of Lula Cellars, 2018 Releases
Jim Beam Distiller’s Cut
But wait, there’s more. Mildly dissatisfied with limiting our Thanksgiving wine suggestions exclusively to Pinot Noir, we pivot to five Zinfandels at a variety of price points for Thanksgiving dinner. Zinfandel is always a good call to pair with turkey, as a Zinfandel with lower tannins provides a bit of juiciness. Which, depending on who…
Milam & Greene is well-known for its melding of the whiskeys of Kentucky and Texas (and sometimes Tennessee) into enchanting blends that straddle the regions from whence they are born. Master blender Heather Greene also regularly touts her unique “Texification” approach, which involves bringing Kentucky distillate to age for years in the blazing Texas heat,…
Here’s a look at a one-off from long-covered-by-Drinkhacker Frescobaldi, our second review of its Vino Nobile di Montepulciano bottling, Tenuta Calimaia. I enjoyed this 2020 bottling a bit more than the 2019, its tart core offering an insistent fruitiness that wavers between cherry and underripe raspberry. There’s ample baking spice to keep things interesting, with…
We’ve covered many of Martell‘s Cognacs over the years, but its most foundational bottle has eluded us: Martell VS. Note that this is different from Martell VS Single Distillery: Most Cognac is a a blend of eaux-de-vie from dozens of tiny distilleries around the region, but Single Distillery was from one source. This VS is…
It’s been seven long years since we visited with the Portlandia winemaking operation, a relatively small producer that leans into hipster iconography and low prices to push wine from the PNW. I say that because two of the wines we’re looking at today — a rose and a sparkling rose — are drawn from grapes…
This is our third round with Paso Robles-born Harvey & Harriet from Booker Wines — and supposedly it’s a stellar vintage — so we’re excited to dig in. As usual, this is a cabernet sauvignon-heavy Bordeaux style blend, and it’s quite a dense one. Initial flavors of cassis and tart cherry find a counterpart in…
Beaujolais-Villages is one of the great value wines of the world, and if you want to get into the category, you can’t really go wrong starting with one of the biggest names in the region, Georges Duboeuf. This 2023 release is a refreshing and effusive gamay-based wine, melding notes of fresh cherry and raspberry with…
Midway between Detroit and Ann Arbor, in the kind of Michigan suburb where affluence is casually assumed, Cantoro Market and Trattoria feels like a playground for foodies with a penchant for Italian cuisine. To borrow (and lightly misuse) Bill Hader and Stefon’s cadence: this place has everything. Fifty-five thousand square feet of pastas, specialty olive…
This is by my count the fourth revision of Jim Beam Black Label since we started Drinkhacker in 2007. After updates in 2010, 2015, and 2016, “Jim Beam Black” has been fully reimagined with a new bottle, a higher proof, and a lower age statement — now 7 years instead of 8. Clearly designed to…
The Old Grand-Dad brand is on quite a tear of late. Following a luxe 16 year old expression comes a new Old Grand-Dad Bonded Bourbon, this one billed at 7 years of age. (This is not to be confused with the older OGD Bonded, which carries no age statement). As the start of a new…