Old & Rare Banff 37 Year
$359.99
Distillers Tasting Note: The nose is herbal fresh, spicy, citric and carries later vanilla and a lightly smoked quality. The tingling palate replicates all those characteristics plus some extra honeyed and sugary quality - to be followed by a soft and complex finish which is still spiced, honeyed, with a touch of Benedictine and a drift of smoke.
Balblair 1978
$287.09
Balblair is a bit of a diamond in the rough, established in 1790 it is among the oldest distilleries in Scotland. Little known until its rebranding in 2007 the distillery has nothing but potential... Distillery's Tasting Notes: "Aroma : Honey, cloves, nutmeg and vanilla. Palate : Sweet, honey and toffee flavours combine with chocolate, lemons and oranges. Finish : Full bodied and long lasting."
G&M Generations Glenlivet 20CL 1940
$5,399.99
We are getting both 700ml and 200ml bottles of this rare dram. I first tried it at the Nth Whisky Festival in Vegas, it is light and fresh, shockingly so for a whisky which has spent 70 years in a single First Fill Sherry Butt. The angels were kind with this one, somehow the cask retained 45.9% strength. The packaging is stunning; it has been bottled in a bespoke tear shaped crystal decanter with sterling silver stopper and base. The box is bespoke made of Scottish Elm and hand crafted in Scotland. My Tasting Note: Nose: peaches and cream, mulled fruits, hard candies and fruit leather with some deft Christmas Cake notes; assorted jujubes, new leather sofa, and something vaguely smoky; Palate: soft and delicate, some delicate smoky notes, more peaches and cream and warming-buttery fruit; becomes richer with brown sugar and spices: cinnamon, cardamom, clove and ginger; leather and tobacco notes; there are so many layers to this whisky: citrus, smoke, soft coating oils and much, much, more; nutty tones and vanilla; Finish: long and warming, sweet with subtle spice and nutty oak, my palate is moist, damp and coated with soft oils.
Scotch Malt Whisky Society R3.4
$95.39
SOLD OUT! - Not expected to retrun to KWM.
MAKES YOU STRONG LIKE A LION
10 year old rum at 75.3% from a Refill Sherry Butt?
Panel's Tasting Note: "To start the neat nose is melted brown sugar in butter followed by a surprisingly clean wood smoke, like a distant Arbroath smoke house. In addition we get antiseptic notes like germolene or a lemon scented savlon next to aromas of red clay in a pottery. To taste it feels like being in a sauna, sitting on the highest bench during an ‘Aufguss’ whilst eating wasabi. With the addition of water a foamed neoprene wetsuit turning quickly into salty butter on burnt toast. With time shellfish aromas of mussels and scallops develop. To taste, now intense sweet like a croissant with butter but also savoury bacon notes and fragrant incense sticks of sandalwood in the finish."
Drinking Tip: "With or in place of a Jagerbomb."
G&M PR Collection Glenlivet '54-91
$4,499.99
O&R Probably Speyside's Finest 45 Year
$449.99
Distillery's Tasting Note: "The nose opens with an appealing rich and "darkly" spiced character carrying a fresh leather & ground nuts (hazelnuts?) quality. The palate is mouth coatingly spiced with soft wood tones and runs to black cherries in alcohol and dark chocolate. The finish is long, gently oaked, and remains warmingly spiced with a "candied ginger coated in (more) dark chocolate"-style."
Berry's Own Bowmore 1994
$86.03
My Tasting Note: Nose: very herbal with fresh green grass, salty and medicinal notes, cured fish and clean smoke; shortbread with granular sugar topping, candied lemon, something a little rubbery and burning grass; steamed mussels in broth, Salt n Vinegar chips and rubber tubing; Palate: a little ashy with clean burning wood smoke, liquid honey and vanilla; the palate shows more steamed mussels in a very salty broth with a sweet sugary backbone that never really disappears; the whisky has an oily-mouth-coating character and some balancing acidity; Finish: fine cigar tobacco, gently peat oils and sweet toasted oak, with clove and more clean wood smoke.
Tomatin 30 Year
$377.99
"A rich and elegant non chill filtered single malt with intense fruity aromas which develop in the mouth alongside some more robust spices which emanate from the combination of American and European oak casks. Aroma - Intense juicy aromas arouse the senses - green apples, passion fruit, honey dew melon, blackcurrant and blueberries. Citrus notes come to the fore, all the while a candy sweetness drifts along with hints of polished leather in the background. Palate - gooseberry, ginger and hazelnuts make way for spicy oak which hits the middle of the tongue. The oak is balanced beautifully by a honey sweetness that drifts to the back of the palate. Finish - Long, clean and pleasurable," according to the team at Tomatin.
Chichibu The Floor Malted
$171.89
SOLD OUT!
This is a limited release of Chichibu Whisky from Japan. The whisky was distilled in 2009 with malt produced to specifications provided by Ichiro Akuto while on a trip to England to learn the are of floor malting. Bottled at 50.5%, 8800 bottles were produced. Just a couple of dozen found their way to Canada, exclusively to KWM.