Kavalan French Wine Single Cask TM Annv
$399.99
!!!LIMIT 1 PER CUSTOMER!!! Truth Malters, importer for Kavalan, is celebrating their 1st Anniversary, with some special bottlings. This French Wine Cask matured whisky has been bottled after 7 and a half years at 59.4% with just 156 bottles released. Each bottle was hand signed by Master Blender Ian Chang on his last day at Kavalan, February 29, 2020.
Producer Tasting Note
Nose: Guava and honey covered apricots. Sweet melon and apples dressed up in a floral bouquet. Green grapes with dark chocolate and dried fruits abundant with hints of vanilla and wine gummies.
Palate: A beautiful soft sweet spice that is so clean and fresh on the palate. The sweet melon bursts through along with cherries and vanilla. There is a really nice dark dried red apple taste as well, as if mixed in cocoa powder and each sip seems to bring out more unique tastes and flavours.
Finish: You can really pick out that Signature Kavalan exotic fruit taste, with honey covered melons and guava. There is a slight taste of pecan and nuts that stays for a while and gets drowned out when that wine gummy sweetness jumps out. A perfectly balanced spicy sweetness that is somehow complex yet not overwhelming at all. The 59.4% is hidden in a ton of cocoa, soft spices and melon sweetness with a long finish that begs for one more sip!
Two Brewers Yukon Single Malt Release 19
$99.99
Bottled at 46% ABV, Release 19 of the Two Brewers Single Malt Whisky is a return to peat from our favourite brewer and distillery out of Whitehorse, Yukon.
About Two Brewers
"Yukon Brewing was formed by Bob Baxter and Alan Hansen in 1997, the result of a canoe trip conversation taken well beyond the campfire. After years of building a successful local craft brewery, they decided to expand into spirits and in 2009 invested in a small pot still. Hence came the birth of Two Brewers Yukon Single Malt Whisky; made in small batches, with a variety of malted and roasted grains, using different fermentation techniques and a mix of barrels. The goal is that no two releases will be the same, so that as each expression emerges, it is layered and unique."
Two Brewers Yukon Single Malt Release 20
$102.99
Limited to 1055 bottles, Release 20 of Two Brewers' Yukon Single Malt Whisky carries their Innovative label. Bottled at 40% ABV, this expression was finished in barrels that previously held maple syrup.
About Two Brewers
"Yukon Brewing was formed by Bob Baxter and Alan Hansen in 1997, the result of a canoe trip conversation taken well beyond the campfire. After years of building a successful local craft brewery, they decided to expand into spirits and in 2009 invested in a small pot still. Hence came the birth of Two Brewers Yukon Single Malt Whisky; made in small batches, with a variety of malted and roasted grains, using different fermentation techniques and a mix of barrels. The goal is that no two releases will be the same, so that as each expression emerges, it is layered and unique."
Kilchoman Feis Isle 2019
$414.99
Only 2 bottles came to Canada, and there is just one left for sale. This 11 Year Kilchoman was distilled in 2008 and matured in a mix of Fresh Bourbon and Fresh Oloroso Sherry. 939 total bottles. 54.4%
Cadenhead Small Bt. Craigellachie 10 Yea
$105.99
Distilled in 2009 and bottled at 10 years of age in 2019, Craigellachie was bottled by Cadenhead. It is the result of 2 ex-Bourbon Hogsheads and is bottled at a cask strength of 54% ABV. 522 bottles total were produced from the two casks married together.
Balblair 2003
$79.99
This first release of the 2005 vintage from Balblair distillery was bottled in 2017 at 46% ABV, both non Chill-filtered and at natural colour.
Berry's Ronnie's Reserve 1995 The Quaich
$349.99
This 24 year old single cask (Refill Sherry Hogshead Cask #12040) of "Speyside Single Malt Whisky" has been bottled to mark the retirment of Ronnie Cox, Brands Heritage Director for Berry Bros. & Rudd. Ronnie was best known over the years as the face of the Glenrothes single malt brand, which was owned by Berry Bros. for 30 years from 1987-2017. We'll leave it to your imagination which distillery this mystery Speysider hails from... Exclusive to KWM in Canada, it is one of 7 casks bottled as part of "Ronnie's Reserve." Only 6 bottles. 53.3%
Ronnie Cox’s Tasting Note
Bouquet: Honeyed digestive biscuit, ripe yellow fruits, and honeydew melon.
Palate: Soft on entry the intensity of flavour meets the palate and then fills the mid-palate where shapes into distinguishable fruity and light woody and biscuit flavours.
Finish: Fulfilling and rewarding exuding exalted excellence. Dangerously more-ish.
More About Ronnie's Reserve - by Ronnie Cox
"When my father asked me what I wanted to do with my life I remember replying facetiously: to understand the mysteries of alcoholic drinks; the joys of travel and the delights of people. I count myself incredibly fortunate to look back on my career and see that I have discovered and enjoyed all three.
"I come from a whisky family of seven generations, on my mother’s side – the earliest two were distilling illicitly in Speyside, Scotland. Whisky, I think, must have been in my genes and it was to this industry that I gravitated following a year each in Germany and Spain, learning their languages and studying their wine. I never looked back.
"I have spent 40 years in the world of Scotch and always on the export side, promoting and eulogising its virtues. My travels have taken me to all continents, but I know Latin America, perhaps, the best. It’s a sad reflection to note that only after 20 years of monthly travel to that part of the world that the time implied in my Grandfather’s sage words, “South America is the land of the future”, was not as immediate as I had anticipated.
I know that I have had more than my fair share of ‘lives’. I have looked down the barrel of a loaded gun twice; been in the first plane to touch ground in Paraguay following a coup d’etat; witnessed the Congress building in Bogota being attacked by tanks; spent 48 hours without sleep with a group of contrabandistas; been robbed in a hotel room whilst asleep; negotiated whisky business with one country President and one Foreign Minister and been verbally threatened with my life several times.
"I have met thousands of interesting people including Russian and British foreign Ministers and I’ve even shot grouse in Scotland with Margaret Thatcher at my side. Being somewhat absent-minded on this lifelong journey my passport has “vanished” three times (I always carried two) along with one PC, about 150 pairs of red socks, 60 shirts and three suits not to mention ties. On the plus side I’ve eaten in over 4,000 different restaurants and enjoyed several thousand drams of the Scotland’s pride and joy.
"Now edging towards retirement after 30 years with Berry Bros. & Rudd and with a few years of country pastimes ahead of me, I am delighted to be asked to select seven casks of a distillery with which the company and I have been long associated. Not many people are lucky enough to witness history in the making but each of these casks tell a multitude of stories on the changes in Scotch production and maturation. These are all very special to me and I like to imagine that the older I get the more valuable these bottlings might become!"
- Ronnie Cox (Brand Heritage Director BBR
Springbank Society Hazelburn 11 Year
$129.99
Limit 1 per customer!
Adelphi Benrinnes 2006 55.5%
$134.99