Adelphi Bowmore 1989
$459.99
COMING SOON to KWM
Only 8 bottles are coming to KWM, out of 12 coming to Alberta. Bottled at 52.0% after 27 Year in an Ex-Bourbon Hogshead
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: soft, delicate and enticing; eating a tub of Old English Butterscotch ice cream by the fire in a tub with a lavender bath bomb; underneath there appears to be a load of shy fruits.
Palate: wowsa--it is dancing in my mouth--it is bigger, fruitier and even more creamy than expected; so creamy, more Old English Butterscotch ice cream, there is a sprig of fresh lavender, but the gentle maritime smoke and subtle peat oils shove it to the side; it steadily becomes increasingly bright: honeycomb and waves of ripe tropical fruits; it seems light but it is thick and coating.
Finish: the floral nature emerges again on the finish with ethereal lavender and delicate maritime smoke weaving together while the honey, cream and tropical fruits slowly fade.
Comment: love it or hate it this is classic mid-1980s Bowmore; beautiful...
Producer’s Tasting Note
From an American oak ex Bourbon hogshead. Full gold colour with excellent beading. Profoundly mellow, fragile, fragrant, with pale fruits (under-ripe melon), buttered pancake with spun honey, with a thread of smoke in the background. Mouth-filling texture and a syrupy sweetness, with Parma Violets in the middle and fragrant smoke in base. A highly sophisticated example of Bowmore.
Adelphi Breath of Speyside 2006
$119.99
COMING SOON
!Only 6 bottles are coming to Alberta of the 2006 Breat of Speyside (cough Glenfarclas). Bottled at 57.7% after 10 years in a 1st Fill Spanish Sherry Butt.
Andrew' Tasting Note
Nose: big, rich, nutty, syruppy and sherried; treacle sauce on sticky toffee pudding; cloves and Dutch licorice; a touch musty old oak in dunnage warehouses.
Palate: big, syruppy and very sherried; a firm muscular backbone of leather and dark spices before the chocolate and fruits have a chance to emerge; more treacle sauce, burnt Christmas cake and firm Dominican tobacco.
Finish: long, drying, coating and bold.
Comment: this will warm you up on a cold night and or tame the boldest of cigars!
Producer’s Tasting Note
Drawn from an active, 1st fill Spanish oak ex-Sherry Butt. A deep amber/polished mahogany colour, with good beading. Mellow nose feel, not as dry as its predecessor. Bruised apple, tinned pear, and burnt caramel – toffee apple? Oloroso sherry, sweet tobacco, so leather. Develops into vanilla toffee (Werthers Originals; Chocolate Eclairs) with a drop of water. A sweet, burnt toffee taste, then immediately bitter saccharine. Water introduces chocolate and cocoa powder, reduces the other tastes and gives a light menthol aftertaste.
Adelphi Ardnamurchan 2017 AD
$89.99
NOW IN STOCK!
Bottled at 53.6%, this 1+ year old spirit from the Ardnamurchan Distillery is just their second ever release. Andrew's Tasting Note is below as is the producer description and tasting note.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: bright berry fruits, cranachan, blueberry yogurt, honey and barley sugars; Morrocan marmalade on corse bread; soft leather and gentle earthy tones.
Palate: big, leathery and nutty with loads of berry fruits; more cranachan, blueberry scones with coarse Demerara sugars; cold tea, Russian chocolate and Spanish coffee.
Finish: light, fresh and warming; berry fruits, malt, sugars and chocolate.
Comment: lots of layers for something that is still a long way from becoming whisky... can't wait to taste Ardnamurchan as it continues to mature.
Producer Description
Content: 22 American oak ex-Oloroso and PX octaves, peated Ardnamurchan (55 litre original fill); 8 American oak ex-Oloroso and PX octaves, unpeated Ardnamurchan (55 litre original fill).
Warehouse location: Ardnamurchan upper floor. Finish: all 30 octaves married in Spanish oak ex PX butts for 4 months.
Distiller’s Tasting Note
Deep copper gold with amber lights with good beading. Honey roasted nuts, Christmas-spiced sultanas, baked apples, custard creams, Liquorice Allsorts, nutmeg, rock salt and smouldering salt and sun-kissed drift wood.
Laphroaig Cairdeas 2017
$124.99
Limit 1 per customer! Bottled at 57.2%, the 2017 edition of Laphroaig Cairdeas (Scots Gaelic for Friendship), is a cask strength bottling that started in First Fill Ex- Maker's Mark Bourbon casks before finishing in Quarter Casks.
Producer Description: “For several years, our Friends of Laphroaig have been interested in tasting a Cask Strength version of our popular Laphroaig Quarter Cask — which offers an irresistible doubling of flavour, due to the double maturation in two barrels made of American oak. This year we decided to bring this dream into reality.
“First fill Makers Mark casks have been used for the first maturation of 5+ years in Warehouse 1 next to the Atlantic Ocean. Different ages have been awoken temporarily to be brought together, before laying to rest for a second time in our smaller quarter casks (125lt). After a further 6 month maturation, the liquid from 177 of these casks were put into the bottle at Cask Strength, with no colour, no chilling and a simple barrier filtration.
Distiller's Tasting Note
Nose: Gentle coffee cream and freshly sliced vanilla pods, builds into sweet mint with notes of old hay, a background of beach bonfire and then freshly sanded wood. Body: Full bodied and complex.
Palate: A sweet vanilla dryness that develops into a creamy, oily mouth feel with bitter liquorice root and a throat full of smoke.
Finish: A long, creamy smoky finish
Jack Wiebers Classic of Islay #2 57.25%
$124.99
Batch 2 of Jack Weibers Classic of Islay (aka youg cask strength sherried Lagavulin). Imagine the sheer coastal ferocity of Lagavulin 12 slamming head on into the savoury sweetness of Lagavulin 16 and you'll have some idea as to what you can expect from this one. It's a monster. In all the right ways.
57.25% abv
Highland Park 25 Year
$819.99
The Highland Park 25 Year is a very rich and bold older malt, owing to the fact it was matured in a high proportion of first fill sherry barrels. Bottled at 45.7%.
Distiller's Tasting Note
Dark chocolate | Fudge | Heather honey | Nutty toffee | Dried fruits
Distiller's Description
The remarkable complexity of our 25 Year Old single malt whisky owes a great deal to its maturation in a high proportion of the finest quality first-fill, sherry seasoned European oak casks.
The casks impart an astonishing flavour to the whisky as it matures – at once dark and full bodied with a rich and nutty spiciness, yet brimming with sweet dried fruits, cinder toffee and soft fudge. 25 years encased in oak has not only created a whisky with impressive depths, but time has delivered a vibrant sweetness too. Renowned whisky writer F Paul Pacult named it ‘Best Spirit in the World’ in the 2013 Spirit Journal – an accolade of which we are particularly (but typically quietly) proud.
Old Malt Cask Glengoyne 1995 21 Year
$169.99
Just 30 bottles, exclusive to KWM in Alberta! Bottled at 50% after maturing in a Refill Hogshead. Filled into cask December 1995 and bottled in February of 2017.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: grapefruit-juice and dried apricots; marmalade on toast, vanilla icing on white cupcakes; Wine Gums;
Palate: light, fresh, coating and juicy; orange and lemon oils with citric sugars; more white cake cupcake notes with vanilla icing sugar and building floral notes: geranium stems; waxy wine gums.
Finish: bigger than the palate and nose let on, very oily, fresh and fruity.
Comment: this is a brisk summer's night dram; refreshing but bold enough to warm you up!
Producer Tasting Note
Nose: vanilla custard, icing sugar and apricot.
Palate: smooth with dark chocolate and liquorice.
Finish: long, lingering and dry with a slight oaky aftertaste.
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 35.172
$175.99
ALPACA FLEECE
This 20 year old Speysider was matured in a 1st fill barrel and comes in at 52.9%
Flavour profile: Light & delicate
Outturn: 210 bottles
Panel's tasting note: "We knocked at the door of a very smart looking cottage and when the door was answered we stepped into an immaculate vestibule. It had a beautiful Spanish Moorish pattern tiled floor, antique brass wall candle holders and a coat closet with brand new Barbour jackets hanging on coat hangers beside newly waxed leather boots. We were invited in and enjoyed toast with clover honey; very delicate, sweet and floral as well as homemade elderflower cordial. When we asked for water the aroma turned so delicate, almost fragile; peach ice cream with candied angelica and so too was the mouthfeel - unbelievably soft and smooth."
Drinking tip: "When in desperate need of some tender loving care"
Shelter Point District Montfort 141
$86.99
Vancouver Island's Shelter Point Distillery has struck a winning note with this whisky. The whisky is named "Montfort DL 141" for the lot of barley the whisky was made from. Made from 100% UNmalted barley from one field. 46% ABV. Only 1224 bottles for this release.
Producer Description: “Raised right here on our family farm on Vancouver Island, Montfort District Lot 141 is a truly unique field-to-flask whisky. The name itself is the very lot in which the single-grain barley was grown, and the coordinates to the exact field are included on every bottle. Distilled in our traditional copper pot stills, aged in American oak and French oak at our oceanfront warehouses, and bottled on-site by the Shelter Point family, Montfort DL 141 is a proud product of our distillery home. This limited-edition run is only 1224 bottles."