Duthies Highland Park 18 Year

$87.29

My Tasting Note: Nose: honey and gentle smoke; Palate: malty, very malty, like a hoppy ale; there is sherry here, though it seems subdued; its sweet with lots of honey, gentle smoke and earthy notes which come both from the peat and the cask; the whisky is very spicy, and these develop more with time: Finish: long, full and warming with tingling spices, soft sweet peat and more honey;

Amrut Intermediate Sherry Single Malt

$109.99

This fine Indian single malt is matured in Ex-Bourbon before transferring to sherry casks, which were shipped to India without sherry in them to avoid the use of a sulphur stick. The whisky is then transfered back into Ex-Bourbon for finishing.

Distiller's Tasting Note

Nose: Instead of the usual biscuit aroma, we now get moist cake. And my word: is it fruity and spicy!! Love the freshly waxed oak floor, too. Brain-explodingly complex and multi-layered with one of the most intriguing sherry-style-bourbon-style marriages on the market.

Taste: Cracking delivery and entirely unique in form. The structure is decidedly oak-based, but acts as no more than a skeleton from which the juicy sultana and spices drape. Salivating, too, as the barley kicks in powerfully. But the liquorice-orangey-honeycomb bourbon theme quietly shapes the flavour profile; the spices pulse and glow.

Finish: Quite a chunk of natural caramel quietens the more exuberant characteristics; long and elegant.

Glenrothes 1988

$89.99

Benriach 1976 33 Year

$261.89

Distillers Tasting Note: "Nose: Tropical fruits and almond essence. Sweet vanilla notes. Palate: Clean and very tropical. Bursting with lots of ripe pineapple and coconut." This is the only bottling we received from the Batch 7 releases which isn't finished, matured instead in a single hogshead cask for 33 years. Only 221 bottles have been released world-wide, with but 6 coming in to Canada.

Benriach 1977 33 Year Pedro Ximinez

$261.89

My Tasting Note: Nose: coffee bean, liquorice extract and anise, nutty sherry, the thickest caramel, ripe strawberries and chocolate; Palate: it hints at rich sweet notes, but the darker ones take over with notes of molasses, warm brown sugar, drying nutty sherry and candied orange peel; there is a whiff of something smoky, with leather and tobacco notes developing late; Finish long and dark with espresso, brown sugar and burnt fruit.

Benriach 1978 32 Year Tokaji Hogshead

$244.79

My Tasting Note: loads of juicy ripe fruit and nut, very orangey with butter and marmalade on toast; burnt brown sugar and spicy toasted oak; Palate: round and fruity, big notes of white fruits from ripe to poached, candied orange peel, thick spice and dark chocolate, it is incredibly sweet and rich with brown sugar and Christmas spice; Finish: long, toasty and sweet with crisp oak and prickling spice.

Benriach 1984 25 Year Tawny Port

$164.69

Exclusive to KWM in Canada, only 6 available bottles. 265 bottles were finished in cask 4052. The whisky has been bottled at 51.7% after 25 years of maturation in July of 2010. Distillers Tasting Note: Nose: A large fruit basket with a hearty helping of rich peat reek. Palate: Treacle toffee with all spice and a huge peaty aspect which builds up to an enormous finale.

Benriach 1991 19 Year Virgin Oak

$122.39

Exclusive to KWM in Canada, we received but 6 of the 306 bottles released world-wide. Bottled after 19 years at 54.9% this BenRiach has been finished in a single virgin oak cask. Nose: Vanilla beans and butterscotch with oven baked toasted oat biscuits. Palate: Hot buttered toast with hazelnut butter, Incredible dried nut characteristics with a spicy kick. Non chill filtered and no added colouring.

Arran KWM 1999 Bourbon Cask

$76.49

My Tasting Note: Nose: very floral, like a garden center on a hot day, toasted oak, fruit salad, honeycomb and crisp toasted oak; marshmallow and white chocolate show later; Palate: sweet and very toasty, lush vanilla, caramelized honey, poached white fruits, croissant with almond paste and floral oils; Finish: long and still toasty with rich vanilla and more caramelized honey. Exclusive to KWM!