There’s a new Super Mario Bros. movie out this weekend, which is a good reminder that video games and cinema have long had a bumpy relationship. Indeed, the first was 1993’s Super Mario Bros., which almost killed the genre right out of the gate. The Street Fighter movie, released six months later and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, did somewhat better, but it wasn’t until Mortal Kombat the following year that audiences started flocking to films based on games they could play at home.
Jump back to 2023 and the genre is thriving. Along with The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the latest Mortal Kombat film did well. Perhaps that’s why Legendary Entertainment, the production company behind the likes of the new Godzilla/Kong movies, Dune, and smaller fare like BlacKkKlansman, is bringing Street Fighter back to the multiplex.
Details are currently thin on the ground, though considering the huge scale of some of their movies, expect something along the same lines as the last Mortal Kombat movie. The two franchises have a history together, with the first Mortal Kombat game emerging around the same time as Street Fighter II, both of which took the duel genre to a new level. The big difference was that Kombat was super gory while Street Fighter didn’t allow players to rip out their opponents’ spines.
It’s not the first time the franchise attempted a Mulligan. Back in 2009, Hollywood tried again with Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, which made even less than the first Street Fighter, on a quite large budget. Here’s hoping third time’s the charm.
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Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet! Spring has sprung and we’ve been hit with a nice variety of sneakers from Adidas, Nike, Jordan, and New Balance. It’s not every week that we get this wide variety of brand representation so we love to see it! Highlights from this week include Gucci’s collaboration with Adidas, which sees the luxury brand producing iterations of two classic Adidas silhouettes.
Elsewhere, Nike continues to show Penny Hardaway some love with the return of the Air Foamposite One, Air Jordan drops the latest reimagined Jordan 2 in an aesthetic that attempts to bring the summer season to us early, while in New Balance world we get a few iterations of the brand’s most popular silhouette. Let’s dive into this week’s eight best sneaker drops!
Nike might have the better celebrity endorsements, a number of iconic silhouettes, and a consistent release schedule of absolute bangers, but no other brand collaborates with luxury wear quite like Adidas. This luxury iteration of the Gazelle features a beige and ebony GG Supreme canvas upper inspired by ’90 Gucci motifs with dual branding and is made in Italy from animal-free raw materials. It’s expensive, and premium, arguably too expensive for the Gazelle, which isn’t particularly comfortable, but just look at it! You move Nike.
The Adidas x Gucci Gazelle Men and Women’s is out now. Pick up a pair exclusively at Gucci.
If you like the vibe of the Gucci Gazelle but want a sneaker that is actually, you know, comfortable, check out the ZX8000 which also dropped this week. Featuring a suede and canvas upper with Gucci motifs and Trefoil embroidery, this Torsion style sneaker features a lightweight design and supportive comfort in four eye-catching colorways.
Finally, you can represent the ATL while wearing a clean pair of Dunks! While this isn’t exactly a shoe anyone asked for, it still looks dope and there are a number of Dunks out there designed to celebrate other cities (mainly New York) so why not Atlanta? The South got something to say!
This sneaker is part of Nike’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop and features a bright picante red suede upper with crimson swooshes and metallic gold accents.
The Nike Dunk Low ATL is out now for a retail price of $120. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
Where the ATL is bright and loud the Pink Foam takes on a softer more low-key look. The sneaker features a plush pink all-suede upper with a milky white midsole and swoosh above a pink outsole. Part of the Dunk’s LX line, this women’s only dunk sports a synthetic leather insole, cushioned collar and black and white marbled laces.
The Nike Women’s Dunk Low LX Pink Foam is set to drop on April 6th at 7:00 AM PST. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
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New Balance 550 White With True Red and Atlantic Blue/Turtle Dove/White With Raincloud
The 550 is one of the silhouettes responsible for the current New Balance renaissance we’re living in and after a brief break in new colorways, the shoe is finally back with four new iterations. The 550 features a mixed suede and mesh upper and a very simple classic ‘80s build. The new colorways include True Red and Atlantic Blue, Turtle Dove, White with Rain Cloud, and Lilac Cloud, each one looks like a modern classic.
Penny Hardaway’s Air Foamposite One returns this week in a super clean white and black colorway. Featuring a swirling upper, an ice-white outsole, and black pebbled leather accents, the Foamposite One sports enhanced comfort and a lightweight build designed to keep your court game quick, while still providing flair to flaunt.
The Nike Air Foamposite One White and Black is set to drop on April 7th at 7:00 AM PST. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
If you only ride for the MADE in USA line (which the 550s are not a part of) you’ll be pleased to know we’re at least getting one MADE in USA this week — a 990v6. Sporting a mesh underlay wrapped in pigskin and synthetic overlays, this v6 features reflective accents, a TPU back tab, and FuelCell foam for a propulsive step over an ENCAP midsole. It’s designed to be a featherweight and supportive running shoe, and it is, but let’s face it, we love it because it looks great.
The New Balance Made in USA 990v6 Black with White is set to drop on April 7th at 7:00 AM PST in both Men’s and Women’s sizes. Pick up a pair at the New Balance webstore.
The Jordan 2’s debut colorway might’ve been red and white, but pink is the sneaker’s best look. The Seersucker features a combination of washed-out coral over a pale vanilla midsole with photo dust accents on a Seersucker cotton upper. It might be a season too early for Seersucker but when the sneaker looks this good, it’s hard for us to complain!
The Nike Air Jordan 2 Low Seersucker is set to drop on April 8th at 7:00 AM PST. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.
For the list below, I’m calling out 20 bottles that just don’t miss. They all slap, so I’m not really ranking these. Each bottle offers something unique in the world of whiskey from heavily peated Islay malt whiskies to new American single malts to the return of classic bourbons to new game-changing Tennessee whiskeys. It’s a wide net. My advice, read through my tasting notes and find the whiskey that speaks to you or sparks your interest, and then hit that price link to see if you can find that bottle in your neck of the woods.
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The mash bill on this bourbon is mid-range rye heavy with 18% of the grain in the bill for support. Triple distilling in pot stills (like Irish whiskey) and blending with column-distilled whiskey is utilized. The bourbon then rests for six to seven years — taking time to mature before barrels are pulled for blending, proofing, and bottling.
The bump with this bottle is that it’s Woodford Reserve’s once-a-year Kentucky Derby release (which takes place in May). The bottle art is highly collectible. But just to be absolutely clear, this is standard Woodford Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: This opens with a rush of Martinelli’s Sparkling Apple Cider, pear candy, and vanilla cake with a hint of dark chocolate, orange zest, salted caramel, and some sour red berries tossed with fresh tobacco and mint.
Palate: The palate opens with some dried apple skins next to cinnamon sticks floating in hot and spicy apple cider, a hint of mint tobacco, and salted orange dark chocolate bars.
Finish: The end has a nougat wafer vibe next to caramel and vanilla cookies with a hint of old porch wicker and boot leather.
Bottom Line:
This is the buy for anyone who’s into the Derby. When it comes to the whiskey in the bottle, it’s great standard Kentucky bourbon that works best in mint juleps and old fashioneds.
Virginia Distillery Co. Scholar’s Craft American Single Malt Whiskey Coffee Cask
This brand-new release from American single malt titan, Virginia Distillery Co., is more than just a coffee-finished whisky. The actual whisky in the bottle is a 100% malted barley whisky that’s aged in ex-bourbon casks. Those barrels are vatted and then re-barreled into ethically sourced, small-batch coffee barrels for a short final maturation.
The ripple here is that 100% of the proceeds from the sales of this whisky will go to support the newly endowed Angela H. Moore Women In Distilling Scholarship at Appalachian State University. The $100,000 endowment is from a women-owned and operated distillery to help bring more women into the industry, which makes this a must-buy on that merit alone.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: The nose opens with a creamy bourbon buttercream with deep vanilla next to sour yet creamy espresso bitterness countered by cinnamon-spiced dark chocolate
Palate: Soft mocha lattes drive the taste toward sharp winter spices — clove, allspice, and nutmeg dominate — next to salted dark chocolate and a hint of malted biscuit dipped in vanilla syrup.
Finish: The end leans into the espresso bitterness with a nice note of dark chocolate and cinnamon gingersnaps.
Bottom Line:
This is a very easy-going sipper that has a nice depth that lets the finishing cask shine. It also supports a great cause. That’s a win-win, folks.
This is a serious whiskey from Bushmills. The Irish single malt rests in ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks for 14 years. Those barrels are batched and then re-filled into first-fill Pedro Ximénez sherry casks for another 16 years of slow aging. Finally, that whiskey is proofed down and bottled as-is.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: There’s a mix of mincemeat pie and sticky toffee pudding on the nose with salted toffee sauce, rich buttercream, and leathery dried fruit countered by soft and powdery dark winter spices.
Palate: The lushness is amazingly silky with fresh figs, black-tea-soaked dates, and rum-soaked raisins with burnt orange, old vanilla pods, and poppy seed dessert rolls with brown sugar syrup icing.
Finish: The dried and dark fruits get leathery as the toffee sweetens with a touch of old oak stave and cellar floor dirt lurking in the background of the finish.
Bottom Line:
This is stellar whiskey. If you’re looking for the mountaintop of Irish single malt, this might be it.
Green River Kentucky Straight Wheated Bourbon Sour Mash Whiskey
This new release from Bardstown Bourbon Company’s Green River distillery is a wheated classic. The whiskey in the bottle is made from a mash bill (recipe) of 70% Kentucky-grown corn, 21% wheat, and 9% malted 6-Row barley. That whiskey then spends four to six years mellowing before batching, proofing, and bottling as-is.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: This pops on the nose with rich caramel next to soft roasted peach and apricot next to a rush of cinnamon bark and nutmeg with a creamy vibe.
Palate: Toffee drives the palate toward Nutella and honey over buttermilk biscuits with an apple/pear tobacco aura that leads to a soft orange.
Finish: The end is rich and full of stewed fruits — peach, pear, orange, raisins — and a mild sense of oaky spice and a mild graininess.
Bottom Line:
This is a no-brainer if you’re looking for a cocktail base. I’d also argue that this makes a good table whiskey for everyday sipping over a lot of ice too.
291 All Rye 100% Rye Malt Colorado Whiskey Finished with Aspen Wood Staves
This Colorado whiskey is made with a 100% rye mash bill — 50% Colorado malted rye (from Root Shoot Malting) and 50% German rye malt — on a bespoke still. The hot juice is then aged in new oak with signature toasted aspen wood staves added to help refine the aging process. Finally, the barrels were batched and bottled 100% as-is, yielding only 1,000 bottles.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: The nose opens with dark fruit leather, dark black tea leaves, cinnamon bark, and a fistful of dry dill and marjoram with a whisper of salted caramel sweetness.
Palate: The palate has a cinnamon toast vibe next to more of that dark black tea with a hint of clove-spiced plum jam, freshly cracked black pepper, and more of that salted caramel.
Finish: The plumminess drives the finish with a hint of cracked almond shell and dark dill next to fresh flat-leaf parsley and a touch of sweet-sour cherry packed in sawdust.
Bottom Line:
This is fantastic rye. This whiskey hits every note so clearly and well that it’s hard not to fall in love with it. It’s so good.
Bruichladdich Port Charlotte Heavily Peated Islay Barley 2014 Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
This brand-new release from Bruichladdich is all about Islay and local malt. The mash bill (recipe) is hewn from 100% Islay Concerto and Propino barley malts (grown in 2013) that are heavily peated. In 2014, the whisky was made and filled into a first-fill bourbon cask (84% of the final blend), second-fill new oak (8% of the final blend), and second-fill Bordeaux wine casks (8% of the final blend). After seven years, those barrels were vatted and just proofed with local water for bottling.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Old pear and apple orchards mingle with singed vanilla pods, salted toffee, rum-raisin, and grapefruit pith next to smoked peach and melon over cinnamon bark dipped in seawater.
Palate: That grapefruit leads to burnt orange with a deep smoked plum, cherry, and apple vibe next to grilled peaches, toasted coconut, and burning wild sage with a slight sense of moist marzipan and apricot tobacco.
Finish: Apricot jamminess and chewy malty spice drive the finish toward smoldering coals in a barbecue and a bit more of that smudging sage.
Bottom Line:
This is a peat monster that runs super deep. Still, if you’re not into the peatiness turned up to 11, this might be a bit much for you. You’ve been warned.
Knob Creek Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey Aged 7 Years
This new whiskey from Beam marks the first big age-statement version of their iconic Knob Creek Rye. The whiskey in this case was aged seven years before batching, slight proofing, and bottling.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Classic Beam caramel sweetness with a vanilla underbelly drives the nose toward rye bread crusts, a hint of dried savory herbs, apple blossoms, and a whisper of soft leather gardening gloves.
Palate: The spiciness arrives after lush vanilla cream and salted caramel with a dose of freshly cracked red peppercorns, dried red chili, and sharp winter brown spices next to a spiced oak.
Finish: The creaminess, sweetness, and spiciness coalesce on the finish with a deep sense of fruit orchards full of fall leaves and apple bark.
Bottom Line:
This is excellent rye whiskey for mixing up killer cocktails. It totally works as a nice on the rocks sipper too. Basically, this is a whiskey that can do anything!
Westward American Single Malt Whiskey Single Barrel Selection Grand Cru Sauternes Cask
This is Portland’s classic American single malt taken up a level. After years of resting, a single barrel was re-barreled in a sauternes cask from France’s Grand Cru Classé estate. 14 months later, Westward bottled that whiskey with a kiss of local water.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: This has a deep nose that takes you on a journey through green chili, soft caramel, burnt orange peels, grilled peach, summer flowers, and danish filled with vanilla cream and red fruit compote.
Palate: There’s a sharp cherry soda on the palate with a hint of grapefruit, pineapple, and ripe peach next to bright ginger, soft coconut, and a hint of honeyed malt with a whisper of nuttiness.
Finish: That orange comes back on the finish with a soft fresh floral edge next to light cedar bark braided with chewy fresh tobacco dipped in honey and dusted with citrus zest.
Bottom Line:
This is great American single malt and the bottle you should buy to convert any whiskey drinker into the wonderful world of ASM.
Elements of Islay Bourbon Cask Islay Blended Malt Scotch Whisky
The Elements of Islay is a small bottler that highlights beautiful specialty barrels from Islay, Scotland. This release (from late 2022 technically) is made with barrels from both north coast and south coast Islay whiskies that were finished in bourbon casks. Those barrels are small-batch blended and then bottled as-is.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Vanilla cookies dusted with powdered sugar mingle with grilled tropical fruits, toasted coconut, and coal from a beach grill fire.
Palate: Orange mocha frappucinos drive the taste toward poached pears and peaches with maple syrup and vanilla next to a butter croissant with a hint of smoked chocolate and spiced malt cakes.
Finish: Creamy vanilla mingles with soft chocolate and peat smoke attached to spiced malts.
Bottom Line:
This is a classic easy Islay peated malt whisky. The blended malt is subtle yet clearly built to highlight the fruits, malts, and smoke. I would argue that it’s easy-going enough to be attractive to the peat curious.
Rare Character Single Barrel Series Selected by ReserveBar Topflight Series Straight Rye Whiskey Finished in Jaqueira Casks
Japqueira is a Brazilian wood that most notably grows jack fruit and is used to age cachaça. The whiskey in the bottle is 95/5 rye from Indiana that’s then refilled into a Jacqueira barrel that previously held cachaça and let it rest in Kentucky for a spell. After four years and six months, ReserveBar bottled a single barrel 100% as-is.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: The nose is deeply nutty with a dark and worn leatheriness next to a soft sense of mild mushrooms, green banana, macadamia, and anise with a soft Kentucky cherry/vanilla/winter spice undertone.
Palate: The palate is lush and silky with a sense of vanilla oils, star fruit, clove, cinnamon bark, and nutmeg next to creamy nuttiness with a dash of toffee and alder planks.
Finish: The finish just lingers and lingers while slowly fading through vanilla buttercream, sour cherries tossed in maple sea salt, and moist marzipan cut with orange and pomelo oils.
Bottom Line:
This is a next-level rye that goes places that you’d never expect while still holding the thread of a complete story/journey on/in your senses. It’s wildly delicious and lush with a deep profile that just kind of keeps going deeper. This is where rye whiskey is going and I can’t wait to go on that ride.
This new release from 15 STARS is a blend of two bourbons with a big finishing run. The whiskey is made from an eight and 16-year-old blend that was finished in Kentucky in port, cognac, and rum casks for eight additional months before batching and bottling.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Woody huckleberry jam over raisin scones mingle with eggnog spices and brown sugar cookies, spiced cherry fruit leather, and a twinge of sweet yet old oakiness.
Palate: That dark fruit leather leans into brandy-soaked dates and prunes with a sense of old oak cellars next to rich vanilla, soft apples, and sticky toffee pudding.
Finish: There’s a dark cherry spiced vibe to the finish that leans into fresh chewy tobacco packed into an old oak box and then wrapped in leather with a burnt orange rind and winter spice bouquet on top.
Bottom Line:
This is excellent. I can easily see sipping this on a sunny day next to a smoker or grill in the backyard.
Method And Madness Irish Whiskey Triple Distilled Rye And Malt USA Limited Edition
This whiskey is from Midleton Distillery’s (the place that makes Jameson, Powers, Spot, and Redbreast) craft distillery. The whiskey is made from a mash (recipe) of 60% rye and 40% malted barley. The whiskey is twice-distilled as per most Irish whiskeys before a long rest in ex-bourbon casks. Once those barrels were ready, they were batched, proofed, and bottled for the U.S. marketplace.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: There’s a nice deep leatheriness on the nose with a sense of old dry lemon rinds next to lavender oils, clove buds, and a fleeting sense of eggnog with a lightness to it.
Palate: Oats and winter spices lead the way on the palate with a sense of fresh firewood, honey-dipped malt cookies, and raisins dipped in dark chocolate and flaked with salt.
Finish: Those malt cookies drive the finish toward more raisin and oats with a honeyed vibe, a hint of dry red chili, and a dash of white pepper.
Bottom Line:
This rye whiskey feels like a good bridge between classic Irish whiskeys and bolder ryes from the U.S. Overall, if you’re looking for something a little different but still very drinkable, then grab one of these. I think with the honey vibes on the palate, this will make a great citrus-forward cocktail too.
The Glen Grant Rothes Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky Aged 21 Years
This brand-new release from The Glen Grant Distillery is a part of their Principal Collection. The whisky was crafted by Master Blender Dennis Malcolm, OBE, using at least 21-year-old ex-bourbon and ex-Olorosso sherry casks. That final batching was just proofed down for this special bottling.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: The nose opens with a rush of spicy and sugary tropical fruits that range from grilled pineapple dusted in nutmeg and clove to stewed peaches in cinnamon and allspice next to a hint of caramelized malts and old cellar oak.
Palate: Those singed tropical fruits and stewed stone fruits drive the palate toward a hint of caramel-chocolate malt biscuits next to a faint hint of old golden honey and burnt sugars over lush vanilla buttercream.
Finish: That lush vanilla creaminess drives the finish toward a sweet and caramelized end with a hint of pear and apricot over lush marzipan.
Bottom Line:
This is one of those bottles that just really f*cking nice. Sometimes that’s all you need.
Lost Lantern 2023 Single Cask #3 Watershed Distillery Ohio Straight Bourbon Whiskey 7 Years Old
The latest Lost Lantern single barrel release is a five-grain bourbon from our in Ohio. Watershed Distillery used corn, rye, wheat, malted barley, and locally-grown spelt for the mash of this bourbon. The whiskey then spent five years mellowing in Ohio before the barrel was shipped to Vermont for two more years of mellowing. Finally, the team at Lost Lantern thought this one was ready and bottled it as-is only yielding 65 bottles.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: This smells rich and lush with deep creamy eggnog next to sweet dark fruit leather, old oak cellars, and a sniff of vanilla cake bespeckled with crumbled-up hard-toffees covered in dark salted chocolate.
Palate: Those toffee chocolate candies drive the palate toward spiced oatmeal cookies with walnuts and raisins dipped in vanilla buttercream and dashed with brown sugar and salt with a fleeting sense of orange and vanilla.
Finish: Spiced cookies with plenty of fatty nuts appear on the finish as a matrix of orchard fruits — cherry, plum, orange — slowly fade toward burnt ends of rock candy dipped in winter spice liqueur with a brazen heat to it.
Bottom Line:
This is a great whiskey. Great. Add some water and let this beauty bloom in the glass and take your time with it. Just hurry, this will be sold out very soon. And then that’s it — forever.
WhistlePig “Béhôlden” Small Batch Single Malt Whiskey Aged 21 Years
This new whiskey from WhistlePig is a big one. The whiskey in the bottle is a 21-year-old Canadian single malt. That whiskey rested in American oak for two decades before being shipped to Vermont for a finishing run in WhistlePig’s rye barrels. Only 18 barrels were selected for this very limited release.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Sultanas and Graham Cracker buttery crust drive the nose toward old oak cellars, peanut brittle, and a hint of chocolate nut clusters with a hint of salinity.
Palate: There’s a deep and dark black cherry on the lush palate that builds on moist marzipan, soft malted spice cakes, and a hint of black licorice and salted toffee.
Finish: The finish leans into the old oak and cellar vibes with a hint of malted chocolate cut with winter spices and folded into old tobacco leaves with a fleeting sense of smudging sage lurking in the background.
Bottom Line:
This is a luxurious whiskey that has a deep sense of malted whiskey vibes. Overall, it’s such a unique bottle that it’s worth it if you’re a collector. If you’re looking for a single malt with a very American (North American, I suppose) aura, then this is a good place to start.
Jim Beam Lineage Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey A Father And Son Collaboration
This whiskey was released for the struggling travel retail market late last year. The whiskey in the bespoke bottle is a 15-year-old classic Beam bourbon that was aged on specific ricks in Warehouse K (the most famed warehouse on the Clermont, Kentucky campus). Father and son Fred and Freddie Noe both selected the barrels to make this blend and released it almost completely as-is with just a drop of that soft Kentucky limestone water.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: The nose is classic from the jump with a soft caramel candy with vanilla buttercream frosting over spiced choco-cherry cake, a touch of clove-studded burnt orange rind, and soft marzipan with a hint of old oak cellars.
Palate: The palate is lush with a sense of Black Forest cake — stewed cherries, vanilla cream, moist chocolate cake, dry dark chocolate shavings — next to a bunch of woody and barky winter spices with a hint of hazelnut and burnt orange.
Finish: The end leans ever-so-slightly into old cedar bark and rich spiced cherry tobacco layered with dark chocolate-covered espresso beans and a hint of sharp mint and maybe some more of that clove.
Bottom Line:
This is one of the best Beam products there is. You can even get it at the distillery (and travel retail) right now. If you’re in any way a fan of Knob Creek, Booker’s, or Basil Hayden, then this is a no-brainer buy.
Lost Lantern 2023 Single Cask #4 Corbin Cash California Straight Rye Whiskey 7 Years Old
This rye is from a tiny California distillery. The distillery was founded on a sweet potato farm that uses rye as a cover crop. The whiskey in this single barrel pick bottle is made with 100% Merced rye grown in sweet potato soil. That whiskey aged for seven years on the farm before Lost Lantern came along and bottled it into 217 bottles completely as-is.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Chili-spiced old chocolate bars sit next to mint chocolate chip ice cream in waffle cones with a hint of old grain silos off in the distance.
Palate: There’s a clear ABV buzz on the palate with a clear sense of fresh green tea leaves, sweet stone fruits, spiced hot chocolate topped with vanilla buttercream, and a light sense of nuttiness.
Finish: The end has this vibe that’s kind of like a hot green matcha creamy tea (the ones made with condensed milk from the can) that’s rolled into a mint mochi ball and dipped in dark chocolate.
Bottom Line:
This is next-level rye whiskey. It’s warm on the palate but offers just a wild and exciting ride of flavors so much so that you just want more. Get a bottle before this one disappears.
Jack Daniel’s 10 Years Old Tennessee Whiskey, Batch 2
This age statement released from Jack Daniel’s is a throwback to a bygone era in Tennessee Whiskey. The whiskey is aged for at least 10 years before batching. During that time, the barrels spend time in the “Buzzard’s Roost” at the top of the rickhouse. Once they hit the right flavor profile, those barrels are moved to the bottom floors of other warehouses to slow the aging down. Finally, the whiskey is batched, proofed, and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: This opens with a rich matrix of cherry syrup, apple cores, sticky toffee, vanilla ice cream, and a bold line of wet and sweet oak with a mild earthiness.
Palate: The palate opens up towards the dark fruit but dries it out and marries it to a woody and spicy tobacco leaf alongside toasted cedar soaked in salted caramel paired with dry corn husks that are just singed.
Finish: The finish really takes its time as the cherry attaches to an old cinnamon stick and the tobacco takes on a sticky chewiness with an almost smoked oak woodiness.
Bottom Line:
This was an oaky whiskey with a nice fruitiness to balance things out. I’d say if you’re looking for something oaky but more fruity than spiced, then get this.
Jack Daniel’s 12-Year-Old Tennessee Whiskey, Batch 1
Jack Daniel’s doesn’t hide any of its processes. The mash at the base of this whiskey is a mix of 80% corn, 12% barley, and 8% rye. Those grains are milled in-house and mixed with cave water pulled from an on-site spring and Jack Daniel’s own yeast and lactobacillus that they also make/cultivate on-site. Once fermented, the mash is distilled twice in huge column stills. The hot spirit is then filtered through 10 feet of sugar maple charcoal that’s also made at the distillery. Finally, the filtered juice is loaded into charred new American oak barrels and left alone in the warehouse. After 12 years, a handful of barrels were ready; so they were batched, barely proofed, and bottled.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: The nose is creamy with deep notes of old boot leather, dark and woody winter spices, black-tea-soaked dates, plum jam with clove, and an underbelly of chewy toffee-laced tobacco.
Palate: That creaminess presents on the palate with a soft sticky toffee pudding drizzled in salted caramel and vanilla sauce next to flakes of salt and a pinch of orange zest over dry Earl Grey tea leaves with a whisper of singed wild sage.
Finish: The end leans into the creamy toffee chewy tobacco with a hint of pear, cherry, and bananas foster over winter spice barks and a deep embracing warmth.
Bottom Line:
This is so well-balanced, nuanced, and just freaking tasty. It leaned more into the sweet fruit yeasty flavor notes while still holding onto classic and deep bourbon flavor notes. This is the good stuff, folks.
Michter’s Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 10 Years Old 2023 Batch
The whiskey barrels sourced for these single-barrel expressions tend to be at least 10 years old with some rumored to be closer to 15 years old (depending on the barrel’s quality, naturally). Either way, the whiskey goes through Michter’s bespoke filtration process before a touch of Kentucky’s iconic soft limestone water is added, bringing the bourbon down to a very crushable 94.4 proof.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: There’s a peppery sense of cedar bark and burnt orange next to salted caramel and tart red berries with a moist and spicy sticky toffee pudding with some brandy butter dancing on the nose.
Palate: The palate blends vanilla tobacco with salted dark chocolate-covered marzipan while espresso cream leads to new porch wicker and black peppercorns.
Finish: The end has a pecan waffle vibe with chocolate chips, maple syrup, blackberry jam, and minced meat pies next to old tobacco and cedar with a sweet yet toasted marshmallow on the very end.
Bottom Line:
This is quintessential and bold Kentucky bourbon from top to bottom and felt like a warm hug from an old friend. Plus, it’s hitting shelves right now, which means you might be able to snag a bottle if you’re savvy.
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but it’s not often that a bizarre rumor winds up getting confirmed. One exception involves Dana Carvey. On 9/11, after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, did the legendary comic and top shelfimpersonator really take part in a “moment of silence” while dressed in a ridiculous turtle costume while on the set of a movie? Yes. Yes, he did.
“It’s kind of a sensitive topic, but after 9/11 I was shooting a movie called Master of Disguise,” Carvey said on a recent episode of Fly on the Wall, the podcast he co-hosts with fellow SNL alum David Spade. “We took an appropriate time off and went back to shooting and I was playing — if you’ve seen the movie, kids — the Turtle Man, with a bald cap and a weird thing on my lip and a big green shell outfit.”
Spade then asked if the rumor of how he recognized the tragic attacks — saying a prayer while dressed as a man-turtle, with bald cap and funny glasses — was true.
“I was in [the costume] all that day and then they said, ‘We’re going to have a group prayer about 9/11,’” Carvey recalled. “And I couldn’t get the thing — I would’ve held everyone for a half hour getting all that prosthetic makeup off — so, as I remember it, everyone else was [wearing] civilian clothes, I’m dressed as the Turtle Man, with a bald head, and I’m holding hands and I’m lowering my head and praying and I just thought at the moment: ‘This is very strange.’”
Spade then asked the obvious next question: Did he manage to at least get the giant shell attached to his back off.
“They might’ve gotten the shell off, but they didn’t get the turtle head or the turtle lip off,” Carvey remembered. “They couldn’t get it all off.”
Tragedy and comedy are often intertwined, but rarely in such a bizarre fashion. Heck, it might be the funniest thing about Master of Disguise, not one of Carvey’s better filmic efforts and certainly a far cry from the original Wayne’s World.
Spoiled Love, the 2021 debut album by Buzzy Lee (the moniker of songwriter Sasha Spielberg), was a breakup album. But after finding love and even getting married last year, her latest effort Internal Affairs is anything but.
Imbued with healing, self-discovery, and lots of love, Internal Affairs offers diaristic insight into the past five years of the singer’s life. Songs like the indie pop numbers “When Can I” and “Cinderblock” show off the playful side of her songwriting, mixing buoyant synths with her arresting vocals. Others like “Can I Have Your Autograph” and “The Last Time” instead display her tender, confessional prose .
To celebrate the release of Internal Affairs, Buzzy Lee sat down with Uproxx to talk Steely Dan, regretting bangs, and sleeping in a sex toy room in our latest Q&A.
What are four words you would use to describe your music?
Reflective, ethereal, intimate, haunting
It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?
I want to be remembered for authenticity and in the same way my nostalgia eats away at me when I listen to songs from pivotal moments in my life, I want that same feeling in my music’s memory. Hopefully though in the year 2050, at 60 years old, I will be playing three hour long concerts and wearing detachable trains on stage.
What’s your favorite city in the world to perform?
Nashville, Oakland, and Sydney, Australia. Sorry I picked three!
Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?
Judee Sill, my relationships, Kate Bush, and Taryn Simon, the artist.
Where did you eat the best meal of your life?
Odeon in New York City because that was the night I met my husband.
What album do you know every word to?
Fun fact, I never actually know the lyrics to anything, or at least full songs. I definitely know beginning of song lyrics. Truly, the last time I knew every word to an entire album was when I looked up Nelly lyrics on AZLyrics.com in 2001.
What was the best concert you’ve ever attended?
Bruce Springsteen, Joanna Newsom, Haim, JPEGMAFIA.
What is the best outfit for performing and why?
This MAGICAL green suit with a train attached designed by Seth Pratt, Turner, and Abrielle Stedman. My favorite detail is that the bodysuit underneath has rhinestones that go all the way up to the fingertips.
Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram?
What’s your most frequently played song in the van on tour?
Such a good question and it really depends on who I’m touring with. If I’m with just Ben my guitarist we listen to this podcast, Uhh Yeah Dude. If I’m with my full band, it’s the rule of whoever is driving gets to choose, so it’s a pretty eclectic mix. For me though, it’s always “Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac.
What’s the last thing you Googled?
“What to take before drinking alcohol.”
What album makes for the perfect gift?
1996 by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?
I’m close with Zoe Ligon, aka Thongria, a brilliant sex educator who owns Spectrum Boutique, a sex toy shop. When playing Detroit, I crashed at her place in the sex toy room, so I fell asleep among dildos, and woke among butt plugs.
What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?
I have no tattoos!!
What artists keep you from flipping the channel on the radio?
TLC on 90’s on 9, Steely Dan on 70’s on 7, anything on Deep Tracks, and Alex G on SiriusXMU.
What’s the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?
Married me.
What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?
Relax on the eyeliner and bangs, write a song from start to finish, this is what you want to do, so just DO IT!
What’s the last show you went to?
JPEGMAFIA in Australia.
What movie can you not resist watching when it’s on TV?
Something Borrowed, lol.
What’s one of your hidden talents?
I can speak with my mouth closed, like there’s a tiny person inside.
Internal Affairs is out now via Future Classic. Find more information here.
Jack Harlow landed another movie role before his debut movie, White Men Can’t Jump, has even been released. According to Deadline, the Louisville rapper turned actor will be appearing in the Apple Original Film ‘The Instigators’ alongside Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. The film, written by Affleck with Chuck MacLean and directed by Doug Liman, will also feature a murderer’s row of film talent including Alfred Molina, Hong Chau, Michael Stuhlbarg, Paul Walter Hauser, Ron Perlman, and Ving Rhames. The plot will follow a pair of thieves on the run after a botched robbery (those Afflecks love their heist films, eh?).
Harlow may be a relative novice to acting, but he’s gotten some great looks so far. He’s also shown an ability to turn on the charm in smaller doses; he’s acted ads for Doritos and New Balance, as well as taking on a few funny spots during his stint as a Saturday Night Live host. Jack and Bowen Yang drew great reviews in their unhinged “Bartenders” sketch, so provided his upcoming roles don’t demand a lot of heavy acting, the screen rookie should do okay.
We’ll find out just how talented he is — at acting and at basketball — when White Men Can’t Jump comes to Hulu on May 19.
A lot of shows are too pure for this cruel world, and so the end has come for Ziwe, the late-night talk show hosted by creator Ziwe Fumudoh. As per Deadline, there’s a bit of a shake-up going on at Showtime, which has added the Mandy Patinkin comedy series Seasoned but chosen not to renew Ziwe for a third season. And fans are pissed.
Over its two seasons, Ziwe stood out as a gleefully confrontational interviewer who could land unexpected gets, often resulting in unusual interviews. Her first episode had no less than Fran Lebowitz and Gloria Steinem. Last year she got Drew Barrymore to twerk on an episode where she and Julia Fox talked guys. Among her most attention-nabbing chats was with Chet Hanks, whose discussion of cultural appropriation went as disastrously for him as one would imagine.
The ending of Ziwe means that Showtime is no longer in the late-night chat show game. Last year they ended Desus & Mero, which once counted Fumudoh as a member of their writing staff.
Ziwe was definitely an acquired taste, but like many of its ilk, its fanbase was passionate. Upon learning that the show, whose final season wrapped only late last year, its base was rabid.
literally cannot imagine canceling ziwe, she is a viral megastar. this show catapulted her into high celebrity, that doesn’t happen bc no one is watching!! loser behavior tbh https://t.co/MBD9WKsjSZ
— LESS LONELY on TOUR: TO, SF, SEA, PDX (@jestom) April 5, 2023
This was one of the smartest and most fun shows on television. She is a superstar. https://t.co/p5mkvRJggT
Ziwe was so big that Fumudoh wound up playing herself on Succession, in which she roasted Jeremy Strong’s Kendall Roy. Some joked that it was the ever-troubled scion who secretly did it in.
One can only imagine how relieved Melania Trump was when Donald Trump left the White House. Yes, this is gossipy stuff, and I’m totally reading into everything (especially while posting a photo ^^ of a rare Melania smile), but she looked so happy while heading out of D.C. on Biden’s Inauguration Day. And once the official Trump plane descended upon Mar-a-Lago, she brushed right past Donald while he attempted to snag a photo op with his wife.
The vibe there was that Melania was “clocking out” of duty (to be less diplomatic, it seemed like she gave no f*cks), and since that time, she’s rarely been seen or heard. Reportedly, Mrs. Trump lives a largely Donald-free life while only appearing for the occasional social obligation.
Ahead of Donald’s arrest (for an indictment that related to his Stormy Daniel dealings), reports indicated that Ivanka had snuck into Mar-a-Lago to visit her dad, but Melania stayed pretty quiet. She did not travel with her husband to New York City, and the Palm Beach Post now reports that she did not appear during his “disgusting” evening speech, and reportedly, Trump didn’t mention Melania at all while praising “my family.” Awkward:
[Melania] was not mentioned in a minute-long segment of the speech in which Trump spoke poignantly and lovingly about his family. Here is what he said to alternating loud cheers and moved silence:
“I built a great business with my family. Built a fantastic business. I have a son here who’s done a great job. And I have another son here who’s done a great job. And Tiffany. And Ivanka. And Barron will be great some day. He’s tall, he is tall and he’s smart, but I have a great family and they’ve done a fantastic job and we appreciated it very much.”
Although considering that Trump led into his Barron discussion with “he’s tall, he is tall,” perhaps Melania should count her blessings that she wasn’t mentioned here. Hopefully, she was off getting a spa treatment and living some form of a best life. She’s probably been through a lot.
(WARNING: Spoilers for The Super Mario Bros. Movie below.)
True to Chris Pratt’s word, The Super Mario Bros. Movie does indeed have a post-credits scene that hints at a potential sequel. Actually, the film has a mid-credits scene too, but it’s the final one that hints at a fan-favorite character joining the fun: Yoshi.
According to Variety, the final post-credits scene shows a “green-and-white-speckled egg” getting ready to crack, a clear nod to Mario’s dinosaur pal. However, before Yoshi can fully crack, the scene cuts to black. The green guy was left out of the first film, but there were nods that his species is running about the Mushroom Kingdom:
While there is currently no information on a “Mario” sequel, the post-credits scene nods to the film’s glaring absence of one of the most iconic Super Mario Bros. characters. (One short scene in the film shows a herd of multi-colored Yoshies running wild, but Yoshi is not a character in the movie.)
The Yoshi scene jibes with what Pratt told CBR last month. Although, the Mario voice actor is hoping to see another side of the Nintendo series happen.
“At the end of the film, there’s a post-credit sequence that gives you a taste of what the sequel could be about,” Pratt said. “And that gets me very, very excited. But there’s been talk of Luigi’s Mansion. That was a Gamecube game. I think that would be great.”
Kelly Clarkson is everyone’s (if not most people’s) favorite American Idol winner. Paying homage to her music reality competition show roots, on her Emmy Award-winning self-titled talk show, the musician dedicated a full segment to performing song covers of other popular tracks. Since its inception, Kellyoke has been a hit, and TikTok star Gayle completely agrees.
Gayle has no problem singing the praises of other musicians, in some cases even being moved to tears during those moments. Although Kelly Clarkson’s cover of her viral song “abcdefu” didn’t get the waterworks going, she was overjoyed that it happened. Late last month, Clarkson covered the song during Kellyoke but made a minor adjustment to the breakout line in the chorus.
“Forget you, and your dad, and the fact that you got half / And my broken heart, turn that s–t into art,” sang Clarkson. The original line is, “F*ck you and your mom and your sister and your job/ And your broke ass car and that sh*t you call art.” But pulling from her rocky divorce from Brandon Blackstock in 2021. It’s rumored that Clarkson was required to pay Blackston a settlement of $1.3 million in addition to monthly child support for their children River and Remington.
In her response video to Clarkson’s cover, Gayle fangirled out with the caption, “A queen be queening.”
Watch Kelly Clarkson’s cover of Gayle’s song “abcdefu” above.
GAYLE is a Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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