Tony Sachs

25 Years In Mizunara Oak Makes For An A-Miz-ing Whisky — Tony Sachs Drinks In late June, while on a press trip to Japan with global spirits behemoth Suntory , I was one of the first “civilians” (meaning non-Suntory employees) to taste a closely-guarded new whisky from the ...

I got to try the new Yamazaki 25 year old whisky aged start to finish in Mizunara oak casks... and then I couldn't tell anyone about it for 6 weeks. But now it can be told! Read all about it at @foodandwine.com via my website!

Watching the New York Yankees play baseball the last couple of months has been as disappointing and dispiriting as watching the Democratic Party try to play politics the last couple of years.

If Trump was caught fooling around with a White House intern tomorrow, you can bet Mike Johnson and JD Vance and Hegseth and the rest would be lining up to tell him, "She's a fine piece of ass, sir."

Another Restaurant Review, And A Damn Good Whiskey Of The Week — Tony Sachs Drinks I like food, and what’s wrong with that? Not only does it taste really good, it also pairs well with alcoholic beverages. And of course it lays an all-important base if you happen to be drinking. So i...

Links to a couple of things I wrote this month — a review of a cool Indian restaurant in Williamsburg and a writeup of a great new (sort of) bottled-in-bond bourbon. Check them out at @forbes.com via my website!

For a very good team, the Yankees are not a very good team. #baseball

Oaklore’s stuff is not wildly expensive. That rye may be tough to find but their four grain bourbon, which is in wider circulation, is also quite good.

Whiskey Of The Week x 3: Top-Notch Tipples From Ireland, Kentucky & North Carolina — Tony Sachs Drinks It’s been a little while since I posted links to my not-as-regularly-appearing-as-they-should-be Whisk(e)y Of The Week writeups in Forbes , so I’ve got a trio of them to unload on you this time aro...

A Kentucky bourbon, a North Carolina rye and a €60,000 Irish whiskey walk into a bar. Well, more like my dining room, where I tasted all three and wrote them up for @forbes.com. Get the links for my reviews at my website!

Isn’t this the guy that was going around giving Nazi salutes and palling around with Trump a couple of months ago?

Were it not for all the billionaires involved in its formation — and one South African billionaire in particular — I think I'd be more excited about the America Party. It needs a better name, too.

Do Republicans in the House/Senate fear the wrath of Trump & the MAGA hordes more than they fear losing to Dems in '26? Or are they counting on Trump to cancel the midterms? Or both?

Talking With Tommy Tardie About The Flatiron Room's Expansion To Miami & Much More — Tony Sachs Drinks I’ve loved the Flatiron Room — the whisky bar/restaurant/live music venue in the NoMad area of Manhattan — since it opened way back in 2012, the halcyon days of the first Obama administration. ...

Talking with Tommy Tardie, owner of the two Flatiron Room joints in NYC, about its upcoming expansion to Miami and the hospitality biz in general. Only in @forbes.com (via my website)!

What The Heck Is A Coffey Still, Anyway? — Tony Sachs Drinks I’m about to go to Japan for a week on a fact-finding mission with Suntory whisky, and you’ll be reading about that soon enough. But in this article — my latest piece of sponsored content for the...

A Coffey still — is that what you use to make espresso martinis? Not quite. But find out what it is, and why it makes Nikka's gin and vodka (as well as their whiskies) so damn good. My latest spon-con for @vinepair.com — link at my website!

Writing For Whisky Advocate About ... Tequila — Tony Sachs Drinks This is one of the few occasions where I’m not posting a link to an article I’ve written. In this case, there’s no link to post, because for the time being, it’s only available in the Summer 2025 prin...

I can't give you the link to my latest in @whiskyadvocate.bsky.social, because right now it's only in the print issue (on newsstands now!). But click the link to read the story behind the article... and for general procrastination purposes.

As a @ny-yankees.bsky.social fan, I'm thrilled that Rafael Devers will have fewer chances to destroy them going forward. I'm just sorry he got a chance to play today.

Happiness Is Drinking Pre-Prohibition Whiskey — Tony Sachs Drinks It reads like the stuff of fantasy — day drinking with a few friends … only the drinking in question is 80-110 year old American whiskey (plus a gin!), and the place just happens to be Sotheby’s...

I wrote about an upcoming Sotheby's auction featuring lots of rare pre-Prohibition American whiskeys. I also got to taste a bunch of whiskeys (and a gin) distilled between 1914 and the late '40s. Get the link to the article & read about the tasting at my website!

My daughter knows how to correctly pronounce Laphroaig. I had no idea she was paying attention when I talked about booze.

If so-called pro-Palestinians devoted as much time to trying to oust Netanyahu as they do to trying to get Israel to not exist, they would possibly be able to actually oust Netanyahu.

The World's Most Expensive Cocktail... And Some Seriously Pricey Whiskies — Tony Sachs Drinks As my best friend reminded me, it’s been a couple of weeks since I posted anything here at Ye Olde Website. What can I say, I’ve been busy… busy writing stuff that I should link to here! So to start p...

A trio of articles about expensive booze for @foodandwine.com? Hey, it's what I do. And one is only $400 — not THAT expensive. Have a read, via my website!

Walking in downtown NYC, I passed a Yemeni convenience store owner singing in Arabic; a man on his cellphone speaking Spanish; Haitian delivery guys having a conversation in Creole. Why do MAGAs get angry about that? It's the melting pot in action — we're all New Yorkers and glad to be here.

The best-case scenario for Jews, historically, is they’re kicked out of wherever they live. Worst case, a pogrom tries to wipe them out. A whole lot of Jews hate Netanyahu as passionately as you do. But when you suggest eliminating their homeland … can you see why they get a little touchy?

If you ran everything Trump says through an AI filter that made him sound like Biden, without telling either the press or the MAGA hordes, the immediate conclusion would be that the speaker is either insane or has dementia, or both.

A Fish Cheeks In Brooklyn: Writing About Cocktails... And Food! — Tony Sachs Drinks I’ve wanted to write about food for a while now but have never actually asked any of my editors for permission to do so… until now, when the fine human at Forbes who oversees my stuff gave me the go...

I don't recommend drinking on an empty stomach... which is why I've started to write about food as well as drink. Check out my review of the new location of iconic NYC Thai restaurant Fish Cheeks for @forbes.com (via my website)!

Why do public schools no longer teach civics? When did they stop and what was the reason?

Within four hours of the new pope being named, I was emailed a pitch for, I kid you not, a "pope-inspired 'Holy Water' cocktail." Catholics, weigh in — is this blasphemous?

I spent a chunk of the afternoon day-drinking at PJ Clarke’s, sampling various expressions of 2XO whiskey with the guy who makes it, Dixon Dedman. Shrimp cocktail, oysters and Cadillac burgers were also consumed.

Any mayoral candidate that can get the steam heat to stop cranking full blast in NYC apartments when it's 60 degrees out will get my vote, no questions asked.

What Happens When You Make A Negroni With Calvados? Good Things — Tony Sachs Drinks I’m generally not very good at naming things. But every now and then, inspiration strikes. And strike it did on a frigid evening in Louisville a few months ago, when I had one of the greatest cocktail...

For #CincodeMayo, here's my latest article for Alcohol Professor, about a cocktail that doesn't include any agave spirits at all. But it's still f***ing spectacular. Check it out, via my website!

I agree — a very pressing problem facing America today is 11 year old girls getting 30 dolls or 250 pencils. This definitely needs to be stopped. Thank you Mr. President Trump Sir.

Six Whiskies Of The Week For The Price Of Two! — Tony Sachs Drinks I started writing about Whiskies/Whiskeys Of The Week for Forbes in 2022, but over the last three years and change my ostensibly weekly posts have gotten less frequent, to the point where I may ha...

A little bit of inside baseball, in which I use accounting tricks to make up for my lack of productivity, but also whisky reviews! Some you've heard of, and some I'll bet you haven't (but should). Check 'em out at @forbes.com via my website.