The Whiskey Club kicked off the 2025 Valero Texas Open with another blind bottle tasting tradition. With labels hidden and reputations set aside, participants sampled each pour and voted for their favorite. As always, the results proved that when whiskey is judged strictly on taste, the winner isn’t always the bottle people expect.
Blind tastings have a way of humbling even the most confident whiskey drinkers. When labels, price tags, and reputations disappear, what’s left is just the whiskey in the glass. Sometimes the expensive bottle wins — but often the quiet, overlooked one steals the show and reminds everyone that great whiskey doesn’t need a story.
The Whiskey Club gathered on December 16, 2025, for a pre-Christmas blind bottle tasting at Red Berry Estates, a hidden San Antonio venue near the Frost Bank Center. With labels concealed and opinions based purely on taste, participants sampled each pour and voted for their favorite—revealing once again that the results of blind tastings can be full of surprises.
The Whiskey Club kicked off the 2025 Valero Texas Open with another blind bottle tasting tradition. With labels hidden and reputations set aside, participants sampled each pour and voted for their favorite. As always, the results proved that when whiskey is judged strictly on taste, the winner isn’t always the bottle people expect.
The Whiskey Club kicked off the 2025 San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo with another blind bottle tasting. With labels hidden and reputations set aside, participants sampled each pour and voted for their favorite. As always, the results showed that when whiskey is judged purely on taste, the outcome can be surprising.
A blind bottle tasting at Ranger Creek Distillery brought the whiskey club together to compare pours without labels or expectations. With each participant voting on their favorite, the results revealed which whiskey truly stood out when judged on taste alone—often with a few surprises along the way.
A blind bottle tasting at the San Antonio Museum of Art proved once again that whiskey labels don’t tell the whole story. When the bottles are hidden and opinions stand on taste alone, the results can be surprising, humbling, and sometimes downright entertaining.
During the 2024 Valero Texas Open, our whiskey club gathered for another blind bottle tasting. With labels hidden and reputations removed, participants sampled each pour and voted for their favorite. As always, the results proved that when whiskey stands on taste alone, expectations and price tags don’t always predict the winner.
