Scotch Malt Whisky Society 48.87
$123.99
FRISKY WHISKY
This 11 year old Speysider from a 1st fill barrel comes in at 58.4%
Flavour profile: Sweet, fruity & mellow
Outturn: 204 bottles
Panel's tasting note: "The welcoming nose had something floral and woody, like a fuchsia hedge – also coconut, mango and pineapple; French fancies, honey and chocolate. The neat palate was lively – those fruits again, some citric sharpness, dark chocolate with ginger and a few other woody spices (nutmeg, anise); mouth-filling, mouth-watering and tongue-numbing all at the same time. The reduced nose was an explosion of fruit and honey sweetness – tutti-frutti, soft stone fruits, crème caramel, barley sugars and rice pudding with cinnamon. The reduced palate combined sensual chocolate caramel wafer and bourbon biscuit sweetness with playfully frisky fruitiness and warm ginger cake and chili spice."
Drinking tip: "When feeling frisky!"
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 71.43
$119.99
SWEET AND SPICY WITH A SAVOURY KICK
This 9 year old Speysider was matured in a refill butt and comes in at 65%
Flavour profile: Deep, rich & dried fruits
Outturn: 618 bottles
Panel's tasting note: "The aromas are heady and inviting - dates, gingerbread pastry, rich toffee and a whiff of balsamic. We imagined a glazed ham, all spice, black pepper and pickled vegetables on the side. The taste at full strength was big and sweet. Cinder toffee with “builder’s tea” (strong, with milk and sugar) and a touch of burnt sugar from the bottom of a saucepan. With water, there was mulled wine with oranges and spices and a freshly baked apple and plum crumble with caramelized sugar and cinnamon. The taste left us wanting more - sweet and spicy with a little savoury kick, mince pies, cereals and crème brûlée."
Drinking tip: "A pleasingly big sherried dram for its age"
Scotch Malt Whisky Society G8.8
$167.99
BOTANIC GARDENS AND A SAWMILL
This 26 year old single grain whisky from a closed distillery comes in at 56.7% after maturing in a refill hogshead
Flavour profile: Light & delicate
Outturn: 222 bottles
Panel's tasting note: "The initial nose has subtle fruits and flowers – patience coaxes out soft toffee, chocolate-coated bananas and mandarins in syrup; all on clean new oak. The palate has an attractive delicacy – caramel wafers, ice-cream, honey and cherry chocolates, balanced by spiced bourbon, nuttiness and hints of grapefruit. On the reduced nose, sweet treats of orange and lemon candied slices, candy corn, and shaved coconut on chocolate custard are laid out on a table somewhere between the botanic gardens and a sawmill. The reduced palate has vanilla, custard creams, chocolate limes and marrons glacés, with some bourbon-like char and spice in the finish."
Drinking tip: "When you have the luxury of time"
Kilchoman 2007 KWM 25th Annv. 10 Year
$199.99
Our first exclusive 10-year-old single cask of Kilchoman whisky. It is also the first 10 Year Old Kilchoman to be sold in Canada! Bottled at 56.6% after maturing in an Ex-Bourbon barrel. There are just 212 bottles. This is our 6th exclusive cask from Kilchoman, selected by the whisky team at KWM and bottled to mark our 25th Anniversary! 50mL Mini Bottles are also available!
Cadenhead Small Batch Strathmill 1992
$224.99
This Cadenhead offering from Strathmill Distillery was distilled in 1992 and bottled at 24 Years Old. It was originally matured in 1x ex-Bourbon Hogshead and 2x Bourbon Barrels before being married into this batch and bottled at a cask strength of 45.9%ABV. 606 Bottles total, with only 24 coming to Canada, exclusively to KWM.
Producer’s Tasting Note
Nose: Pineapples, mango, papaya and cooking chocolate.
Palate: Cherry tomatoes, haricot beans, coconut, chocolate flakes and oranges.
Finish: Green bananas, slate and wet leaves and a hint of ash.
86pts Whisky Fun
"This one from two hogsheads this time. Colour: straw. Nose: we’re much closer to the G&M this time, unsurprisingly, with this grassy side, but there’s more custard, dried apricots, melons, also fern and moss… The extra ageing has brought depth and complexity, but of course it’s no extravagant Speysider. With water: moss up! Stirling work (geee, S.!) Mouth (neat): sweets! Melon drops, tangerine, quite a lot of lime and lemon… You’d think this is distilled Chenin blanc. Very different this time. Also chlorophyll. With water: same profile. Should you enjoy your malt a tad citric, this is for you. Finish: long, very zesty, as if you just had a wee glass of limejuice. Comments: a surprise, really. Worth hunting down… SGP:651 - 86 points"
Cadenhead Small Batch Banff 1976
$944.99
!!SOLD OUT!! - More 175th Anniversary releases coming!
This Cadenhead 175th Anniversary bottling of closed and demolished distillery Banff is exclusive to Kensington Wine Market in Canada!
Only 6 bottles Available - 1 Per Customer
51.2% ABV - 40 Years Old
Producer’s Tasting Note
Nose: Apple Tarte Tatin, aniseed, herbal with lots of waxy fruity notes.
Palate: Peaches, lime zest, orange blossom water, hints of oak, greengages and gooseberries.
Finish: Very distant coal dust, polished oak and lingering tropical fruits.
Cadenhead Small Batch Rosebank 1991
$485.99
!!SOLD OUT!! - More 175th Anniversary releases coming!
This Cadenhead 175th Anniversary offering from Cadenhead is Exclusive to Kensington Wine Market in Canada! Only 6 bottles available! – 1 per customer
50.5% - 25 Years Old
Producer’s Tasting Note
Nose: Vanilla, strawberry jam, satsumas, candy floss and golden syrup.
Palate: Juicy and mouth coating with a trace of white pepper, unripe bananas and growing vanilla. Lychee, fennel, mint leaves, mangoes, raspberry ripple ice cream and faint chocolate notes.
Finish: Juicy and mouth coating with a trace of white pepper, unripe bananas and growing vanilla.
Cadenhead Small Batch Caperdonich 1977
$999.99
Exclusive to Kensington Wine Market in Canada!
This Cadenhead 175th Anniversary bottling is from the closed and dismantled Caperdonich distillery. Once know as Glen Grant No. 2, the site is now used by coppersmiths Forsyth. Bottled at 50.5% after maturing in what appears to have been a very active sherry butt. 91pts Serge.
Producer’s Tasting Note
Nose: Rich sherry notes but also creamy, milk chocolate, toffee sauce, plums and nectarines.
Palate: Thick and chewy sherry with toffee, raisin butter, brown sugar and coffee creams.
Finish: Chewy, hints of cloves and ground ginger along with figs, plums and treacle toffee.
91pts Serge @whiskyfun.org: "Now remember, 1977 wasn’t 1972, just saying (what a nice contribution, S.!) Colour: dark amber. Nose: chocolate and wood varnish, Pappy-style, then garden peat and gravel, then prunes, armagnac-style. I’m totally not disappointed, but I was expecting some kind of bomb, while this is rather elegant and, well, sober. With water: Pappy’s back! Which, frankly, wasn’t to be expected. Now there are more prunes and black earth than in any Pappies. Don’t care for Pappy anyway. Mouth (neat): haven’t I just mentioned prunes? I’ll add liquorice and blackcurrants, Corinthian raisins, a wee drop of Kikkoman sauce, and a lot of ganache. It is ‘relatively simple’, but it’s a perfect simplicity. With water: takes water extremely well, and now we’re talking. Chinese plum sauce, cassis nectar, gianduja, perhaps a wee touch of Nutella (I known, utter horror, but in this context it’s OK)… Finish: medium, all on various chocolates, with some tobacco in the aftertaste. And a bourbonness. Comments: more a ride than malt whisky, but what a ride! Frankly, water is superfluous. SGP:561 - 91 points."
Cadenhead Small Batch Convalmore 1977
$999.99
Exclusive to Kensington Wine Market!
Produced at the now closed and dismantled Speyside distillery Convalmore, the whisky was bottled at an impresive 56.8% after 40 years in a sherry butt. 91pts from Serge.
Producer’s Tasting Note
Nose: Lemon thyme, soft earthy notes along with eucalyptus, peach stones and butterscotch.
Palate: Faint coal dust, juicy apples, kiwi fruits and hints of liquorice, cumin powder and raspberries.
Finish: Gently warming, very creamy with caramelised bananas, pears in syrup and more butterscotch.”
91pts Serge @whiskyfun.org: "So one of Cadenhead’s 175th bottlings (while we aren’t even done with the 150th at WF Towers!) that comes together with some old Caol Ila, Banff, Caperdonich, Rosebank or even Ardbeg. What would we do without Cadenhead these days? Colour: pale gold. Nose: these very awesome and very fresh notes of herbal teas, citrus, and fresh green ok (that’s not quite oaky). Ripe kiwis and lime flower tea, lemon pie and chamomile, hints of buttered popcorn, mint and chives, grape pips oil, a touch of fresh basil, a little camphor, and a hint of fennel. It’s this herbal freshness that’s really impressive, I guess that butt was ‘very refill’. We shan’t complain. With water: goes towards a little more tropicalness – always a good sign – with rather unripe mangos and bananas. Some nutmeg and white peaches in the back. Mouth (neat): amazingly powerful given its age, herbally sharp (or sharply herbal) and even kind of spiky, with all herbal drinks of the creation, coated with some lemon cream and a wee feeling of pine wood. Lemongrass, peppermint, green plums, green pepper, lime… Indeed, it’s all green. With water: swims perfectly well. Lovely herbs-citrus game, always fresh, complex, with lime zests in the background. Would you call some 40 yo malt whisky ‘a thirst-quenching dram’? Finish: long, well-chiselled, always very herbal, but without any excessive green tannicity. Rather some kind of lemon-centre-filled chocolate in the aftertaste. Comments: gives you faith in today’s whisky scene. So when’s the next Convalmore coming? SGP:571 - 91 points."