Two Brewers Yukon Single Malt Release 11
$99.99
Release 11 from Two Brewers of Whitehorse, Yukon is here! This carries the Innovative label and was created by adding Munich malts to the mash. This September 2018 release is limited to only 810 bottles. 60% matured in virgin oak. 43% ABV
Producer's Blending Notes
"Significant Munich malt mash used to build the body behind the peat. 60% saw only new wood. 14% 4 yr + 57% 5yr + 29% 8yr."
Cooper's Choice Williamson 2005 56.5%
$226.99
Distilled in 2005, this 12 year old Hogshead matured whisky is technically a Blended Malt, it is really just a teaspooned Laphroaig! Bottled at 56.5%, just 12 bottles coming to KWM!
Producer Tasting Note
Nose: Antiseptic, seaweed and peat smoke.
Palate: More heavy smoke and a little fish oil. Malty sweetness and citrus. Ginger and tar.
Finish: Long and smokey. Ashes of the peat fire.
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 36.135
$155.19
EXOTIC, EXCITING, EDGY
This 19 year old Speysider comes in at 56.7% and was matured in a refill barrel.
Flavour profile: Sweet & spicy.
Outturn: 138 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "We were preparing an Indian spiced salad using dry curry leaves, fenugreek and mustard seeds, mango chutney, red chili, coriander and mint. To drink we had jasmine scented green tea accompanied by Caribbean spiced gulab jamun - golden fried balls of milk pastry soaked in honey and saffron syrup. With water we got aromas of a bowl of Malaysian bird’s nest soup (you might want to try it before looking it up) and Moroccan pickled aubergines with garlic, coriander and cilantro. The taste, zesty avocado salad with roasted walnuts, celery and mustard cress sprouts all washed down with a glass of sweet spiced red vermouth de Jerez."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 53.244
$148.99
VANILLA CHIMNEY STACKS
This 7 year old from Islay comes in at 58.8% after maturing in a refill hogshead.
Flavour profile: Peated.
Outturn: 306 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "An abundance of delightfully sweet and light aromas enticed us into a world of tinned fruit cocktail syrup, roasted chestnuts and custard tarts with singed pastry edges. Delicate smoke came through like a vanilla chimney stack and the final remains of a beach bonfire being quenched by salty sea waves. The palate was juicy and big with sweet barbecue smoke and bramble jam mixed with honey roast peanuts. Sooty dust joined sticky cough sweets and liquorice on a platter carved from salt infused driftwood. Becoming even sweeter with water it carried a nutty appeal until the end with fine wood tannins, soft leather and smoked German beer on the finish."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 93.79
$129.99
OILED UP AND FRISKY
From Campbeltown, this 10 year old was matured in a 1st fill barrel and is 56.9%.
Flavour profile: Young & spritely.
Outturn: 197 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "It was immediately sweet and oily as walnuts and hazelnuts mixed with clotted cream over pears poached in rum. However, cutting through the oil came the mouth-cleansing freshness of menthol and spearmint alongside salted lime sorbet and green bark. The palate carried a hot spice with cloves and cinnamon whilst the sweetness of baked apple pie dried towards burnt banana skins, peanuts and dry wood. Effervescence was present with Angostura bitters in champagne and a garnish of garden mint. The addition of water released a sweeter and lighter side, retaining the frisky freshness but with a more maritime emphasis with oyster shells, fish boxes and clean sea spray."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 112.19
$174.99
QUIRKY, KOOKY, FUNKY
This 17 year old from the Southern Highlands comes in at 56.2% after maturing in a 2nd fill barrel.
Flavour profile: Juicy, oak & vanilla.
Outturn: 250 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "This is a bit of an oddball, straight out of left field – it may be kooky but it’s cooking with gas, idiosyncratic but copacetic – the nose has cereal and grassy notes, biscuits (digestives, lemon puffs, Hobnobs) and sherbet lemons; putty, clean plastic, emulsion, sanded wood and cigar ash. The palate is sweet and viscous with more biscuity flavours, but also quirky, funky features – anise, cinnamon, sorrel, Angostura and faux leather. Water makes it creamier and sweeter, both in the nose and on the palate – the latter finding a wink and an inkling of Haribo Tangfastic fizz."
$6,300.00
Signatory Fettercairn 1997 46%
$111.99
Part of Signatory's Unchill-filtered range, this 20 year old Fettercairn was matured in "Hogsheads" and bottled at 46%.
Andrew's Tasting Note (previous version)
Nose: earthy and leathery, medjool dates, Fig Newtons and candied cherries; dark milk chocolate and pralines; Big Turk, Eatmore and Snickers candy bars.
Palate: round, fruity and toasty with soft earthy oak tones and a touch of smooth old leather; tobacco and spices emerge; a touch meaty with more candied cherry, medjool dates and Fig Newtons; Eatmore and Big Turk on the palate, not so much the Snickers; increasingly floral with lavender.
Finish: very floral, dark fruits, chocolate and nuts; coating and creamy.
Comment: medium-long, coating and elegant with floral lavender and fading assorted candy bars.
Arran 1996 KWM Cask 56 22 Year
$199.99
One of a pair of KWM Arran single casks, selected by and bottled exclusively for the shop. This 22 year old was distilled February 2nd, 1996, filled into a Sherry Hogshead and bottled on April 9th, 2018, at 51.3%. This is the oldest bottling of Arran whisky to come to Canada! 342 bottles.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: molten dark chocolate, new Italian leather shoes, brandy soaked cherries and old Cognac; it reminds me of an Old Fashioned or classic Sazerac cocktail; bags of orange: freshly peeled, candied and dried peels; classic Christmas cake tones and mince meat pie from the oven.
Palate: damn...; right off the bat this whisky oozes class and sophistication; this is what an old sherried whisky should be; dark and candied fruits, notes of chocolate, warm maple syrup, Christmas cake, fruity tobacco, refined leather and warming spices; the sherry tones are rich but balanced; lots of fruit, decadent and spice.
Finish: long, fruity, sherried and rich; more chocolate, leather, tobacco, Christmas cake, spices, maple syrup and more... all in fine balance.
Comment: wow, simply wow; this is a phenomenal single cask; this is a classic but balanced big sherry bomb; my only regret is that we have just a Hogshead here, and not a much larger Butt!