The Whisky Agency Glen Keith 1996
$239.99
Exclusive to KWM in Canada, a 19 year old Glen Keith distilled in 1996 and bottled at 51.6% from a Refill Hogshead cask. Only 237 bottles were produced and just 12 of them came to Canada.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: Manuka honey, chocolate-orange marzipan, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg; crisp biscuits, chewy malt and vanilla waffers; candied orange and carrot cake with cream cheese icing.
Palate: creamed cheese icing sugar on moist carrot cake with decadent but firm spices; more chocolate-orange marzipan, vanilla waffers, chewy malt and Manuka honey; wine gums and grape Hubba Bubba.
Finish: more grapey fruits, wine gums and carrot cake with cream cheese icing.
Comment: very elegant, fruity and layered; beautiful and balanced.
Whisky Agency Littlemill 1989
$382.49
Maltbarn Auchentoshan 1992
$294.99
Exclusive to KWM in Canada, a 23 year old single cask of Auchentoshan distilled in 1992 and bottled in 2015 from a single Bourbon barrel at 52.0%. Only 134 bottles produced, with just 18 bottles coming to Canada.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: very toasty, crisp, floral and fresh with marzipan and wood spice; green grasses, geraniums, white chocolate and crystalized honey.
Palate: soft, creamy, floral and toasty with warm decadent spices and Demerara sugars; more vanilla and crystalized honey, French roast coffee, peaches in cream, cream soda, mangoes and melon with orange rinds.
Finish: long, coating, creamy and floral with more citrus, spices and tropical fruits.
Comment: a silky smooth, very layered and fruity Auchentoshan; this has summer, brunch and maybe breakfast all over it!
Serge @ Whisky Fun's Tasting Note
"Nose: this is very interesting, because it’s obviously the same distillate, only matured in more active American oak that added creaminess and ‘sexiness’, while filtering out the grassy and ‘tablety’ notes. So it feels a little less natural, and rather easier, which is not obligatorily a bad thing mind you. Let’s check it with water: we recreated the Cadenhead, with a bit more fruits, and a bit less limestone. Mouth (neat): we’re closer to the Cadenhead right from the start, with these massive grassy notes, and this bitterish lemony side. Zests and clay are ruling this baby! With water: lemon and lime all over the place. It’s a Auchentoshan that really hints at… some kind of blend of Bladnoch and Rosebank, perhaps? Finish: medium, on the same limy notes. Comments: one more point for more easiness, but we’re clearly in the same category." SGP:541 - 86 points.
Signatory Mortlach 19 Year
$99.44
Macllan 1947 Fine and Rare
$9,735.29
Murray McDavid Highland Park
$64.79
Dalmore 1974 Matusalme Sherry Finesse
$1,189.79
Richard Patterson's tasting note: "Nose: Intense orange zest with hints of African cinnamon, Swiss chocolate and ripe bananas from the tropics. Classic tones of liquorice, crushed ripe apples and rich Java coffee drift softly in the background. Taste: Complex fusion of flavours offer Seville orange peel and bitter Swiss chocolate with notes of dried fruits and walnuts from our single, robust 30 year old Matusalem Oloroso sherry butt."
Springbank 11Year Madeira Wood Cask
$79.19
Tasting Note by Dave Broom: "Nose: big, layered and soft. Oak/cedar notes and smoke. Linseed oil, sesame, melted candle, wet vegetation. Light heather, peat then dried fruit. Great complexity. Palate: Needs water. Rounded, sweet and complex with a concentrated wild berry fruit character intriguingly mixed with tarry ropes. Black cherry. Tongue-coating and oily flow. Finish: smoke, dark chocolate. Briary fruits. Comments: Substantial, multifaceted and complex. Highest recommendation. 9/10"
Ben Wyvis
$2,088.89
SOLD OUT! Ben Wyvis distillery was opened at Invergordon in the 1960's to give Whyte and MacKay some addition malt production. It was closed after just 11 years at the beging of what would become a very dark period of distillery closures which lasted until '86. Whisky from Ben Wyvis is exceptionally rare with very few official bottlings ever having been released. This is believed to be the last cask.