Cadenhead Small Batch Heaven Hill 1996
$305.99
!!SOLD OUT!! - More 175th Anniversary releases coming!
Exclusive to KWM in Canada - Only 6 bottles! – 1 per customer
50.8% - 20 Years Old - Originally distilled and barreled at Heaven Hill Distillery of Kentucky in 1996.
Producer’s Tasting Note
Nose: Poppy seeds, orange marmalade, white chocolate, fudge and cinnamon.
Palate: Soft wood spice, slightly drying with nutmeg, more fudge, beeswax and milk chocolate.
Finish: Coffee beans, cinnamon and paprika. drying oak with growing orange oils, cumin and star anise.
Cadenhead Creations 1991 Smoky Robust
$260.99
Exclusive to KWM - Only 6 Bottles - 46% - 25 Years Old - Married in a Sherry Hogsheads
Producer’s Tasting Note
Nose: Big and meaty, smoked meats with fig compote and lots of farmyard notes.
Palate: More ashy notes come through on the palate breaking through red cherries, faint cinnamon and blood oranges.
Finish: Long and lingering interplay between, wet ash, creamy toffee notes and mincemeat pies.”
Convalmore 32 Year
$1,649.99
COMING SOON to KWM!
This 32 year old distillery bottling of Convalmore was distilled in 1984 and filled into Re-fill American oak Hogsheads. It was bottled earlier this year at 48.2%. Bottlings from the closed Convalmore distillery are very rare, even from independent bottlers. This is only the 4th official bottling ever done of this whisky. 93pts Serge @whiskyfun.org.
93pts Serge @WhiskyFun.org
"Convalmore 32 yo 1984/2017 (48.2%, OB, Special Release, refill American oak hogsheads, 3,972 bottles) Five stars Loved the previous ones, especially the 1977/2013 (WF 94!) The 1978/2003 Rare Malts was great too (WF 90). Colour: pale gold. Nose: the wonderful self-restraint and beauty of these old-school Speysiders that never saw any sherry or any newish oak. Superb beeswax, olive and sunflower oils, verbena tea, menthol cigarettes (mum’s Kools), then assorted slightly overripe garden fruits, certainly apples and timid pears, an old bottle of linseed oil, rubbed grapefruit skins, a spoonful of honeydew, some gum arabic, and just a touch of natural rubber. I find this splendid, and so beautifully elegant and complex at the same time! And so un-modern… Mouth: awe… The most superb combination of herbal teas and soft fruit juices, on a waxy base. Some fresh mint for sure, verbena again, a touch of wormwood, honeysuckle tea, some pink grapefruits bringing the fruity contribution, and finally, a little bit of paraffin, going towards beeswax but not totally so. After three minutes, a few drops of cough syrup are starting to drip over it (eucalyptus, with hints of camphor). Finish: Comments: could this baby be the best within the bunch this year? I haven’t tried the Port Ellen yet at time of writing, but what’s sure is that this superb Convalmore is a strong contender. To think that Diageo managed to come up with four thousand bottles just like that… This is highly impressive! SGP:562 - 93 points."
Distiller's Tasting Note
Nose: A mellow base aroma, soft and sweet, like a buttery pastry case, lightly dusted with nutmeg ready for a custard filling, or perhaps almond oil and oak shavings. Above this, there’s a fruity filling of gently sour apples, spiced pears and ripe melon, orange peel too, before an intense brown sugar sweetness builds. The spicy notes continue to develop, with clove and cinnamon-laced biscuits balanced by candied lemon, more sharp apple and an underlying green herbiness. A drop of water introduces a waxy note and suppresses the fruity elements.
Palate: Smooth, sweet and fruity, with a trace of crisp acidity and oak spice to balance the sweetness before it can cloy. The apples and pastry on the nose persist, now caramelized and bitter-sweet, as part of the fruity centre palate. With a splash of water the taste becomes lightly sweeter, while light acidity again steps in to reveal more complexity. The fruit is savoury; light floral notes appear; the oak picks up char; the spice is toasted and fragrant.
Finish: Warming, spicy and lingering, with liquorice that fades to stewed, baked and fresh-sliced apples and warming oak that persists in closing, bitter-sweet flavours.
Producer Description
A natural cask strength Single Malt Whisky from the closed Convalmore Distillery at Dufftown, Speyside. From refill American Oak hogsheads filled in 1984, it's a rare and unusual old whisky. Subtle in style, yet possessing hidden depths and showing considerable balance and poise, this characterful spirit makes a luxurious apéritif.
Glenfarclas Private Cask DFF
$230.00
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 39.94
$214.99
AN EXOTIC PRIVILEGE
This 23 year old Speysider comes in at 44.7% after maturing in a refill hogshead
Flavour profile: Spicy & sweet
Outturn: 196 bottles
Panel's tasting note: "The delightful nose bestowed pleasing layers of complexity – first impressions of perfumed potpourri; then sweet and fruity aromas flooded through – barley sugars, fruit pastilles, ice-cream with tinned fruit, peach melba, strawberry tart, fruit cake with candied peel, real lemonade, Moffat toffees, etc – we could have sniffed it all night. The palate did not disappoint; fresh, delicate, juicy and perfumed – citrus mingled with mellifluous sweetness and gentle spice – chocolate orange, orange fondant, tinned mandarins, blackcurrant jelly and lemon - add candied ginger, sweet tobacco and scented wood and it became an exotic privilege."
Drinking tip: "For special moments, romantic situations or just listening to Bizet's "Carmen" (perfume and passion in a tobacco factory)
Cadenhead Small Batch Dailuaine 1996
$139.99
This 21-year-old Dailuaine comes to us from independent bottler Cadenhead. From a batch of Hogsheads distilled in 1996 and bottled in 2017 at 46% ABV
Cadenhead Small Batch Speyside 1991
$244.99
This whisky was originally distilled at Speyside Distillery in 1991. It is a marriage of 2 Bourbon Hogsheads bottled by Cadenhead in 2017 at a cask strength of 51 % ABV. 624 bottles total with only 18 coming exclusively to us for Canada!
Producer Tasting Note
Nose: Initially meaty, cured ham with melon and a faint medicinal note.
Palate: Polished oak, red cherries, touches of granite and then toffee apples.
Finish: Gingerbread and lashings of melted butter.
Signatory Bunnahabhain 1989 47.7%
$264.99
Bruichladdich Octomore 8.1
$134.99
Octomore 8.1 is 8 years old and has a Peat level of 167 PPM. It was distilled in 2008 using Scottish Barley from the 2007 harvest. It was then matured in first fill American oak casks sourced from Buffalo Trace, Clermont Springs, Four Roses, Heaven Hill & Jack Daniels. It is bottled at 59.3% ABV.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: doughy, barley sugars and marmalade; dark licorice pops up with burning heather and dead brush; white pepper and a hint of cayenne dusted over peanut brittle.
Palate: big, oily and building; massive actually; there is a tug of water between soft honeyed oils and sharp salty peat smoke; big candied orange and juicy, chewy, barley; a touch of virgin olive oil and Marcona almonds; smouldering creosote logs once it catches its stride.
Finish: firm smoke smothers the palate; the finish is long, oily and tarry; there is a base of orangey fruits underneath with melon; there is an anesthetic feel to this malt.
Comment: there is a drink this when it is -26C outside feel to this whisky, which is incidentally the temperature outside as I write this.
Distiller's Tasting Note
Nose: Initially smoke, tar, peat ash hint of muddiness/wet peat moss. Candied orange, pepper, chocolate, macaroon, vanilla fudge and lemon meringue pie.
Palate: Liquid gold, soft and delicate texture from slow distillation. Superb fruit/smoke combination. On the lips there is soft kiss of salt spray, ozone fresh. Sweet oak gives vanilla, fudge, marzipan and walnut. Melon and citrus come through on a floral breeze. Many layered there is a lot find in this Octomore.
Finish: Wow! Smoothness, sweetness and then smoke. A texture like no other, satin soft and devilishly warming. The American oak influence is in perfect tune with the smoke and soft fruits delicately, skilfully coaxed from the still during exceptionally slow distillation. Vanilla, honey, citrus rise up to be met with sea spray and leather, smoked mussels mix with autumn bracken and creÌ€me brûlée.
Producer Description