Lismore 15 Year
$104.99
The Lismore 15 year - showing balanced malt and a lighter touch of sherry than its older siblings. 40%
Stillhead Bartender's Rye Whisky
$69.99
From Vancouver Island's Stillhead Distillery, which is making some of the best rye whisky in Canada! Bottled at 46%, the Bartender's Rye is made from 100% BC-grown Rye grain and matured in American oak casks.
Nikka Coffey Malt 45%
$94.99
Note: Nikka's own website notes that this bottle does not meet the criteria to be called a Japanese Whisky. The good news is that might mean it also contains Ben Nevis Single Malt, as the Ben Nevis Distillery is also owned by Nikka.
It is unusual to see single malt whisky distilled in a column (AKA continuous or Coffey) still, but here you have it and the result is superb. Formerly exclusive to KWM in Alberta, this is one hell of an interesting dram, soft, layered and very complex.
The sugar yield of malted barley compared with corn and wheat is not favourable, especially when you take the cost of malting and corn subsidies into account. So the Nikka Whisky Co. must have some other designs than simply creating bulk whisky by running barley through their Coffey stills.
G&M CC Bladnoch 1988 KWM Cask #2107
$1,399.99
This bottle was featured on Day 23 of our 2023 KWM UBER Whisky Calendar. You can read the post on it here.
Once again, our friends at Gordon & MacPhail have outdone themselves by offering us the opportunity to bottle this gorgeous cask. At 33 years of age, this 1988 vintage Bladnoch is the oldest KWM exclusive cask we have had the privilege of bottling since our Berry's 40-Year Blend more than 5 years ago. Filled into a Refill Sherry Hogshead on August 17, 1988, there were only 53 bottles left in the cask when it was bottled on the 21st of July, 2022 at 54.1%. A sister cask to this whisky, filled on the same day, is currently scoring 89.43pts on Whiskybase. I expect ours is even better!
This is another one of those KWM casks, where prior to sampling the whisky, Andrew said there was no way we were going to buy a full cask at that price. But the whisky is stunning, and when it was sampled by the KWM whisky team we knew we had to have it. It didn't hurt that the cask had only 53 bottles of liquid left in it at the time of bottling... those are some greedy angels! 90 Points from Whiskyfun.com
SMWS DUNNAGE NOUGAT
$140.99
DUNNAGE NOUGAT
What a tale of oak and fire we have here for this 9 year old small batch single malt! We selected a wonderfully fruity Speyside single malt, which was maturing in bourbon hogsheads. We moved the whisky into a variety of custom coopered casks. In American oak we had new oak hogsheads made with a heavy toast and a medium char, and new oak barriques with a heavy toast (no char) and a medium plus toast (a little lighter, again no char). In French oak we opted for barriques in the same toasting specifications as the American barriques.
Outturn: 1942 bottles
SMWS 73.164 THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOVES
$164.99
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOVES
This 12 year old Speysider was matured in a 2nd fill ex-bourbon barrel and has an abv of 56.6%.
Flavour profile: Spicy & dry
Distilled on: 19 April 2011
Outturn: 203 bottles
Daftmill 2011 Winter Batch Release
$179.99
Limit 2 Per Customer! The 2011 Winter Batch Release was bottled in 2024 from 27 first fill ex-Bourbon Barrels. The spirit was made from Publican barley, harvested in August of 2009 and malted in 2010. The casks were filled in December of 2011 and bottled in 2024. 46%.
SMWS 39.292 MELLOW YELLOW
$169.99
MELLOW YELLOW
This 12 year old Speysider was matured in a 1st fill ex-bourbon barrel and has an abv of 61.6%.
Flavour profile: Juicy, oak & vanilla
Distilled on: 5 December 2011
Outturn: 188 bottles
SMWS 5.125 IF I WERE A LADY AND YOU WERE
$284.99
IF I WERE A LADY AND YOU WERE A CARPENTER
This 20 year old Lowlander was matured in a 1st fill ex-bourbon barrel and has an abv of 56.1%.
Flavour profile: Juicy, oak & vanilla
Distilled on: 27 January 2003
Outturn: 168 bottles