Milk & Honey Art & Craft Belgian Ale
$139.99
Another quirky little treat from Tel-Aviv's Milk & Honey distillery... This 3 year old Israeli single malt was matured in a cask used to mature a Belgian-style ale. 55.1%. Only 6 bottles have come to Canada!
Producer Note: "This single malt whisky has been fully matured in 3 ex-beer casks from the Jems Brewery. These casks, originally ex-bourbon casks granted to Jems by M&H, were in-turn used for the maturation of the Jems 8.8 – a strong Belgian ale style beer – which is characterized by fruity aromas, notes of caramel and pleasant bitterness. After 4-6 months, the beer was extracted and the casks returned to M&H, re-filled and matured to perfection for 3 years."
Natural colour, non-chill filtered, and bottled at 55.1% abv.
Milk & Honey APEX PX Sherry Cask
$179.99
Milk & Honey, or M&H to their buds, should be on everyone's radar by now. Their range is sprawling, the team has an eye to innovation, and maybe most importantly...they know how to handle casks that have previously held wine (including port and sherry). This is unquestionably the influence of the late Dr. Jim Swan, whose legacy will forever be secure based on the STR process alone. But none of that matters unless you have good spirit. Milk & Honey has good spirit.
The Apex range consists of the more experimental end of the M&H portfolio, and the single cask range with the Apex range takes that a step further in terms of oomph and intensity. This single PX Sherry Butt (#2018-0900) yielded just 544 bottles at the ripe ol' age of 3. In this sort of climate, you don't need a lot of years to reach a state of complexity.
Natural colour, non-chill-filtered, and bottled at 56.9% abv.
The Hearach Single Malt
$102.99
The inaugural release of whisky from the Isle of Harris Distillery is here. This lightly peated (12-15 ppm) single malt was matured at least 5 years in a mix of First Fill ex-Bourbon casks as well as Oloroso and Fino Shery Butts. It is married for at least 12 weeks in small batches before bottling at 46%. We are expecting a mix of Batch 4 and 5, of the 8 batches of inaugural release, which the distillery has bottled. Please note we have no control over which batch we receive, and we won't be differentiating; they are to be treated as the same product!
Whisky Sponge Ardmore 2000 Ed.69
$464.99
Bottled at 22 years of age, this 2000 vintage Ardmore was matured in a Refill Hogshead before finishing in a first fill sherry butt. Bottled at a cask strength of 54.2%. 88.25pts Whiskybase
Producer Note
"This 2000 Ardmore is a great medley of farmy, earthy, smoky and sherry notes. We don’t normally go for whiskies that have been finished or re-racked. However, in this instance, the quality and richness of the sherry influence married so well with the fat, lightly peaty Ardmore distillate character that we couldn’t resist this lovely dark and gooey concoction. Bottled at natural cask strength, the finish is long and going towards tar resins, wood oils, mineral oil, strop leather and sooty waxes."
G&M CC Glentauchers 1990
$1,249.99
Part of a trio of 31 year old, heavily sherried, Gordon & MacPhail bottlings from the Chivas Distilleries at the heart of the Ballentine's Blend. This Glentauchers was distilled in 1990, filled into a First Fill Sherry Puncheon, Cask #14520, where it matured 31 years before bottling at 53.8%. 89.65pts Whiskybase
Jura 14 Year Old
$76.99
A recent addition to the Jura range, this 14-year-old has been matured in ex-Bourbon and ex-Rye barrels. Expect a bit of spice, salinity, and nuttiness on this one.
40% abv
Westland American Single Malt
$87.99
Seattle's Westland distillery has built quite a name and reputation for itself. In fact, even whisky (or whiskey, in this case) snobs have hunted down, collected, and coveted the Garryana oak range.
As for the casking for this flagship expression: virgin oak, ex-Bourbon, and ex-Oloroso, in a whole bunch of combinations of sizes and generations (first fill, second fill, etc). Some decently loud wood, if not necessarily able to tame this youthful spirit, at least has the gumption to toe up with its own aggression. It makes for a neatly harmonized chorus.
Natural colour, non-chill filtered, and bottled at 46% abv.
Cooper`s Choice Dalmunach Winter Fruits
$109.99
Port-finished young malt from one of Scotland's newest (and biggest!) distilleries. The distillery was founded in 2015, and this was bottled in 2022, so the math says this one is definitely still on the young side, but we all know how scarce Port-casked whisky seems to be. It also seems to work well in youth.
Only 360 bottles.
Natural colour, non-chill filtered, and bottled at 56.5% abv.
Deanston 12 Year
$80.99
A robust old school styled malt from a youngish distillery (in terms of Scotch whisky, at least). And we'll forever be grateful for that bump strength.
Natural colour, non-chill filtered, and bottled at 46.3%.