Shelter Point Rye KWM Cask #346

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This bottle was featured on Day 15 of our 2020 KWM Whisky Calendar.

This is our second cask of Shelter Point Rye... by which we mean Alberta Distillers 'premium' Rye, matured 5 years in Alberta, and another 6 years on Vancouver Island near the Oyster River. This is the 3rd cask of whisky bottled for us by the good folk at Shelter Point Distillery. The colour is insanely dark for 11 years of age, and the profile is rich and jammy. It may not have been given an award by a fedora wearing Englishman with a twinkle of sulphur in his eyes and a penchant for childishly sexist language, but it is dam fine whisky. Produced from a mash of 100% rye and bottled at 58.8%.

Andrew's Tasting Note

Nose: silky, nutty and syrupy with firm spices; quince paste and fig jam; Panda Brand Licorice; vanilla icing sugar and smoked maple syrup; maraschino cherries and candied orange; sipping old fashioneds in firm plush leather chairs while smoking Cuban cigars. 

Palate: sweet thick and very toasty; starts silky building to musty old oak, barrel aged maple syrup and cola cubes; brown sugar, waxy Strawberry Twizzlers, more quince paste and fig jam; more candied orange and maraschino cherry; old fashioned licorice, amaretto and Armagnac; plush leather chairs, Cuban cigar tobacco and old fashioned cocktails.

Finish: long, coating, warming and spicy; like the after taste of an old fashioned cocktail and a Cuban cigar enjoyed in an old fashioned lounge; late spices: clove, fennel and Panda Brand licorice.

Comment: sweet, jammy and fruity with loads of soft oak tones and crisp spice; forget the bitters, ice and orange peel; just pour a couple of measures of this, tuck in and enjoy; it comes with the added bonus of no bad PR!

750 ml