Glenfarclas 17 Year
$182.99
100% Oloroso Sherry Cask Matured, the 17 year is bottled at 43%.
Arran Sauterne Cask Finish
$87.99
Part of the Arran Cask Finish line, this whisky started in ex-Bourbon casks, and was finished in ex-Sauternes Wine Bariques. 50%
Signatory Glen Ord 2009 16 Year Old
$194.99
If the batch number is the same as Mario Lemieux's jersey number, it must be good. Right? This Glen Ord (Glen Ord is a distillery, not a former NHL hockey player. I checked to make sure.) was distilled in 2016 and matured in 1st Fill and 2nd Fill ex-Oloroso Sherry Hogsheads and Butts. It is bottled at 100 British Proof, or 57.1% ABV.
Bowmore 15 Year
$137.99
The 15 Year Bowmore is finished for 3 years in Oloroso Sherry before bottling at 43%. Bowmore Distillery, est. 1779 is the oldest distillery on Islay and one of the oldest in Scotland. The whisky is moderately peated by the standards of most other Islay whiskies, and malts 40% of their own barley. 43% ABV.
Producer Description
"Matured first in bourbon barrels then Oloroso casks, there's no finer example of a sherry cask finish than our 15 Year Old. It's the final three years spent in Oloroso sherry casks that gives Bowmore 15 Year Old the rich, deep colour and robust warming finish."
Ardbeg Corryvreckan
$154.99
The Corryvreckan started out as a replacement for the Airigh Nam Beist but has become a legend in its own right. The whisky has a unique sweet and spicy twist which blends well with the whisky's peaty maritime backbone. Bottled at 57.1% this whisky is often amongst the highest scoring with whisky critics and reviewers. It gets its sweet and spicy characteristics from the French oak in which some of the vatting is matured.
Sansibar Bruichladdich 1991 30 Year
$1,069.99
Bottled for Finest Whisky Berlin, this 1991 Bruichladdich was matured 30 years in an ex-Bourbon Hogshead before bottling at 45.2%.
Longrow Peated
$99.99
This whisky was featured on Day 8 of our 2024 KWM Not An Advent Calendar Tastings! You can read more about the whisky here.
Heavily peated single malt from Springbank Distillery in Campbeltown. Matured in ex-Bourbon and ex-Sherry casks before being bottled at 46%.
Producer Description
Longrow Peated offers those who enjoy a heavily peated whisky the chance to enjoy a lingering, smoky taste that travels through the senses like the smoke billows from a kiln.
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.
Boutique-y Deer-Licious Tasting Set
$35.99
5x30m whiskies from the recently released Boutique-y Core Range:
- Islay Whisky 8 Year
- Speyside Whisky 12 Year
- Peated Highland Whisky 18 Year
- Blended Grain Whisky 30 Year
- Canadian Corn Whisky 8 Year