Bunnahabhain 40 Year
$2,609.99
Bunnahabhain 40 Year Old is a one-off release of 750 individually-numbered and hand-signed bottles presented in bespoke packaging. Bottled at 41.7% and nestled in a beautiful, bespoke tube, this whisky is very rare, tropical and delicate.
From the Distiller: "Celebrating its extraordinary journey and its recovery by our Master Distiller, Ian MacMillan, is its label. Specially created by renowned Scots illustrator Iain McIntosh it retraces the story; from the water source at Margadale Spring to Bunnahabhain Distillery, from the ledgers to the turney casks - the illustration recounts the timeless passion and dedication which has gone into this truly exceptional whisky."
Distiller's Tasting Note: "This copper gold dram invites you into its tale with fragrant notes of sweet oak, hazelnuts, citrus peel and chocolate with hints of light smokiness. There it releases a taste with a rich and complex balance of heather honey, ginger chocolate and sweet fruits, finished with a teasingly long lightly spicy nutty note and a hint of sea salt. 41.7% vol. Unchill-filtered"
Kilchoman Loch Gorm 2021
$143.99
Bottled at 46% the Loch Gorm is Kilchoman's sherried Islay expression, matured exclusively in Oloroso Sherry and bottled without colouring or chill-filtering. The more recent bottlings have contained increasingly older whisky. This 2020 edition is a vatting of 21 oloroso sherry butts from 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011.
Killchoman is Islay's smallest and only farm distillery. Their whiskies are among our favourite and best selling Islay malts.
Producer Description
"Named after a famously dark and peaty loch overlooked by the distillery, Loch Gorm is a sherry cask single malt matured exclusively in oloroso casks, extracting the rich spicy character of the European oak as it ages in our Islay warehouses. This, the 2020 edition of Loch Gorm is a vatting of 21 oloroso sherry butts from 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011."
Jura 1977
$791.99
!!SOLD OUT!!! - Not expected to return to KWM!
Matured in 3 first fill ex-Bourbon barrels the whisky was finished for 12 months in a Ruby Port Pipe. It scored 90pts in Whisky Advocate magazine, and is limited to 498 bottles. Only 5 are headed to Alberta, exclusively to KWM!
Chichibu The Peated
$171.89
A Kensington Wine Market exclusive, and "a total joy," according to the Japanese Whisky Review. And here's the review:
"Nose: Ash, coal fire, earthy peat, lemon infused peat, Werther’s Originals, vinegar, butter menthols, fermented pears, brine, sawdust, pork crackling."
"Palate: First thing that strikes me is how smooth this is at 3 years old and 62.5%. I don’t hesitate to say phenomenal. Lots of palate coating licorice, sweet peat, earthy peat, coal, pipe tobacco, leather, lemon merengue, fermented pears, pink grapefruit, butter menthols, lapsang souchong, chewy malt, pork crackling, dark chocolate."
"Finish: Lingers on in a beautifully balanced way never too sweet, dry or bitter. You can add coffee with cream to the peat, licorice, dark chocolate, lapsang souchong, tobacco and coal."
Karuizawa 30 Year 1981 Cocktail Series
$430.19
SOLD OUT! - !!!Not expected to return to KWM!
Another big whisky from the closed Karuizawa distillery, exclusive to KWM in Canada. This cask was one of four from the Cocktails series, a Sherry Butt #162, bottled at 55.8%.
Whisky Notes Tasting Note
Nose: not exactly the opening I was expecting, but that’s not a bad thing here. It’s sweet and quite fruity. Black cherries, wild strawberries, lots of dates and a hint of passion fruits. Also notes of lacquered pork belly. Sweet pipe tobacco. Huge notes of polished oak, sandalwood I’d say, with some ‘good’ wood glue. And a whole array of tiny notes like cinnamon, lychee, incense, rum, eucalyptus and sugared nuts. Quite perfect.
Mouth: more powerful now, and quite smoky. Earthy notes, a certain farminess as well. Lots of tobacco again. Then chocolate coated nuts and coffee beans. Cured ham. Bread crust. Sweetness of dates and figs too, as well as hints of fresher fruits (honeydew melon). A bit of sweet liquorice.
Finish: almost as long as a trip to Japan, still quite sweet, showing coal, honey and polished oak. Even a slight medicinal herbalness in the end.
Whisky Advent Calendar
$269.99
!!! TAKING PRE-ORDERS FOR OCTOBER 2013 ARRIVAL !!! Could this be this fall's hottest whisky gift idea? Within 30 minutes of announcing it on Twitter we had a dozen orders! Behind each of the 24 doors is a different 30ml sample of delicious whisky! The exact contents are a surprise, but we can tell you that behind one of the doors is a sample of 50 year old Scotch whisky, the full-sized bottle of which is worth $600! The Whisky Advent Calendar is exclusive to KWM in Canada!
A.D. Rattray Mortlach 1987
$126.89
Glendronach Cask Strength Batch 2
$76.49
The hotly anticipated follow up to Batch 1, fewer than 300 bottles of Batch 2 have found their way to Canada. In the last two weeks we've burned through nearly half our allocation! This little gem is a steal at under $85.
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 29.129
$158.39
LEATHER & LIME IN A SMOKY ROOM: A sherried Ileach matured 22 years before bottling at 55.1%. ""We entered a musky room; a smoking jacket drapes over a leather armchair while a newspaper burns on an open fire and cigar smoke gently lingers."