Cadenhead Small Batch Bowmore 17 Year
$234.99
Gone baby, gone.
Cadenhead Small Batch Benrinnes 21 Year
$229.99
We have had some very interesting Benrinnes indie bottlings recently, especially from Cadenhead. The newest is this Gold Label single cask which was distilled in 1997 and filled into one single ex-Bourbon Barrel. It was bottled in 2019 at 21 years of age and 58.7% ABV.
Producer Tasting Note
Nose: White crab meat, black olives, overripe fruits and pork pies.
Palate: Olive oil, cream cheese, pineapple, a hint of paprika.
Finish: Long and chewy a little dusty, some popping candy and orange bitters.
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 72.67
$100.49
DAFFODILS CAPTURED IN HONEY
This 9 year old Speysider was matured in a 1st fill barrel and comes in at 56.3%.
Flavour profile: Sweet, fruity & mellow.
Outturn: 226 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "A gentle nose, slowly opening from grassy meadows and hay fields to vanilla ice-cream, pears or apple strudel in custard and marshmallow tea-cakes; also wicker baskets and pencil boxes. The smooth, silky palate combines mellow fruitiness (orange, tutti-frutti, strawberries) with sweet things (glazed donuts, candy floss, chocolate-coated raisins) and flickering twinkles of liquorice, pepper and wood on the finish.
The reduced nose – elegant and easy-going – a polished wooden counter in an ice-cream parlour; honey with a memory of sun on daffodils. The palate now much more balanced and integrated – still syrupy, but with hints of citrus and warming spice to complicate it."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 89.10
$92.99
GLOVE BOX SONATA IN B MINOR
This 7 year old Speysider comes in at 64.1% after maturing in a refill butt.
Flavour profile: Young & spritely.
Outturn: 556 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "An elegant and supple aroma of white port, stone fruits, pear skins, orange travel sweets, candy floss and a warm barley steep. There’s also grape must, lychee, horse box, white chocolate dipped marzipan, almond puree and sultanas soaked in mead. With dilution the aroma opens onto cough syrup, hand lotion, sun cream, olive oil cake, malt bins, lemon peel, sunflower seeds, brown bread and warm grist.
The palate begins with tinned peaches, ripe pears, green apple, sweet wort, aged grappa, cider brandy, raisins stewed in young Calvados, chopped chives and clover. Water reveals cocoa nibs, shea butter, putty, sweet wines, waxed canvas, cooking oils, flints, tart gooseberry and graphite oil."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 113.22
$130.99
CREAM OF THE CROP
This 8 year old Speysider was matured in a 1st fill barrel and is 64%.
Flavour profile: Juicy, oak & vanilla.
Outturn: 247 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "A perfumed bouquet coupled flower gardens rich in roses with creamy vanilla and toffee as ripe apples fell from orchard trees. A foamy lava of shampoo blew in the breeze like pink candyfloss whilst the palate brought a tingle of fresh chillies and citrus. Heavy oak created fantastically chewy textures as caramel biscuits enhanced the malty notes of crunchy kiln dried barley.
A few drops of water encouraged sandalwood and dried pine cones to tumble alongside freshly harvested grains before fruity notes combined lemon and mango with lavender soap. The palate had become creamier, abundant with vanilla and custard cream biscuits on a bed of oak shavings. Boiled brown rice then accompanied oat cakes as the finish continued into herbal realms."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 112.46
$154.99
A WAFER A WHILE
This 14 year old Highlander spent 12 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead before being transferred to a 1st fill French oak hogshead for the remainder of its maturation, and comes in at 56.7%.
Flavour profile: Sweet, fruity & mellow.
Outturn: 368 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "As the sun warmed our skin we drifted away to the smell of 1980's suntan lotion and salty sea air. Oil and buttery notes combined with creamy strawberry yogurt, that chilled down to multiple scoops of vanilla ice cream precariously perched on a crunchy caramel wafer. Confected fruit passed by as bubble gum merged with sticky fruit pastries, and joined the malty sweetness of breakfast cereal.
Milk chocolate and praline delivered us to a palate of deliberate funk as fermenting fruit wandered helplessly towards scrumptious cider. The fruit matured into cool white wine loaded with ripe banana and mango flavours, just as we awoke to find an empty wafer cone and melted ice cream on the sand. Twelve years matured in an ex-bourbon hogshead before transfer to a French oak hogshead."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 10.179
$167.99
FLAMINGOS SMOKING PIPE TOBACCO
This 12 year old from Islay comes in at 60.2%; it spent 10 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead before being transferred to a 1st fill red wine barrique for the remainder of its maturation.
Flavour profile: Heavily peated.
Outturn: 243 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "A beautifully pink hue introduced aromas of salty sea air and sea shells as the sweet reek from burning peat wafted over barley. Fresh seaweed provided a mineralic edge that merged with sour cherries and morphed into cranberries on the palate, with a glass of port. Big and chewy chunks of charcoal rolled with tar and chimney soot before vanilla ice cream introduced wonderful textures.
Water on the smouldering ash unleashed more bellowing clouds of smoke but this time from sweetly scented pipe tobacco. Burning gorse and kelp combined with smoked ham as more medicinal notes of antiseptic cream and cough sweets united. Finally plum and gooseberry tarts brought a sweetness to the finish alongside liquorice and heat rub. After spending 10 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead this was transferred to a 1st fill red wine barrique for the remainder of its maturation."
G&M CC Glenburgie 1990
$1,099.99
Only a dozen or so bottles of this very sherried Glenbrugie are coming to Alberta, exclusively to KWM. Bottled at 52% after maturing 30 years in a Refill Sherry Butt cask #9027801. 92.42pts Whisky Base
Celebration of the Cask Bowmore 23 Year
$539.99