Fettercairn 12 Year Old
$95.99
We're creeping up on the bicentenary of the Fettercairn distillery. 2024 will mark the 200 year anniversary of Alexander Ramsay founding this Eastern Highland distillery that objectively offers up one of the most interesting and unique flavour profiles in Scotch Whisky. In fact, Angus McRaild (on behalf of Whiskyfun) a couple years back wrote "...cries out ‘Fettercairn’ with these notes of mud, cheese rind, steel wool, mechanical oils, farmyard and root vegetables. It doesn’t sound pleasant I know, but there’s plenty of charm to admire here." Don't even pretend you're not intrigued. Ex-Bourbon. 40%
Eau Claire Single Malt Whisky Batch 006
$119.99
Aged 6 years in New European Oak, Ex-Bourbon & Ex-Sherry barrels. 43%.
Producer Description
"Our first 6 year batch release, aged separately in New European (Hungarian Oak), Ex-Sherry (French Oak) and Ex-Bourbon (American Oak) barrels, then blended together to create a new, exceptional blend. With sweetness up front, lots of fruit flavours apparent on the palate and a spicy, long lingering finish, our Eau Claire spirit truly comes into it’s own with this release."
Boutique-y Ledaig Bt.11 21 Year
$262.99
Distilled in 1997, and matured in a single Sherry Butt, this 21 year old Ledaig (peated Tobermory), is the 11th release from That Boutique-y Whisky Company, and has been bottled at 48.7%.
Producer Description
"We’ve had some wonderful Ledaig, and here’s another release! Our 11th batch , a 21 Year Old, from a single butt, distilled in September 1997. We’ve bottled this at 48.7% abv. This Island distillery was founded way back in 1798, and originally called the Ledaig distillery. Today it’s known as the Tobermory distillery. The modern incarnation of the Ledaig brand came in 2007."
About the Label
"Single malt is released under both names, with Ledaig being reserved for the peated versions with a phenol content of 30-40ppm. Our label shows the spirit of Ledaig as a sentient planet smasher and off to eviscerate his rather more well-known peaty competition!"
Boutique-y Allt-A-Bhainne Bt. 9 23 Year
$229.99
Batch 9 of Altt-A_Bhainne from That Boutique-y Whisky Company is a 23 year old, bottled at 49.5%. The story behind the label is well worth the short read below!
Producer Description
"Our ninth batch from the Allt-a-Bhainne distillery is a 23 Year Old, drawn from a single butt that was laid down in March 1995 It’s a release of just 430 bottles at 49.5% abv. The distillery was built to supply bulk whisky to the Chivas blended Scotch whiskies, mostly notably 100 Pipers brand. The distillery is a modern open plan unit and was one of the first designed to be be run by one man per shift."
About the Label
"Ahh, Allt-á-Bhainne! An excellent Speyside distillery that opened its doors in 1975, with lots of its output making its way into blends. However, their single malt is excellent indeed, as you’ll certainly see in our bottlings. When you think about it, Allt-á-Bhainne sounds a bit like House of Pain, and it literally means ‘River of Milk’. Once we clocked these facts, we obviously had to put them on our label, along with the bovine embodiment of The Whisky Squad!"
Boutique-y Inchfad Batch 1 13 Year
$119.99
This bottle was featured on Day 20 of our 2022 KWM Whisky Calendar.
Also available in 50ml / Mini bottles
Along with Inchmurrin and Inchmoan, Inchfad is one of three "Inch"es and a slew of other names/labels made by Loch Lomond Distillery. Also like many of the styles of whisky made at Loch Lomond Distillery since it started production in 1965, Inchfad gets its name from one of the islands within the freshwater lake the distillery takes its name from. This Boutique-y Inchfad is 13 years old and bottled at 49.5%.
For more information on this bottle, check out this video from Andrew Ferguson and Dave Worthington:
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Whisky Sponge Higland Malt 1993 No.59B
$424.99
Producer Note
"We got two of these hogsheads of mystery highland single malt and they were both subtly different! This is the sequel to Cream Of Sponge – Pride Of Sponge. A very bready, waxy, rich and nicely old school highland malt whisky!"
46.1%
Boutique-y 10th Annv Aberlour B10 31 Yr
$679.99
This gorgeous bottling of Aberlour is one of the oldest whiskies we've ever seen from the distillery! Bottled to celebrate That Boutique-y Whisky Company's 10th Birthday the whisky, the 10th Boutique-y bottling of Aberlour, was distilled in 1990 and has been bottled at a cask strength of 47.9% after 31 years in the cask!
Producer Description
"Our 10th release from Speyside’s Aberlour distillery is a 31 Year Old, distilled in 1990, and matured in a single barrel. We’ve bottled this at cask strength (naturally). It’s the oldest Aberlour we’ve ever bottled, too!"
About the Label
"For this 10th birthday commemorative bottling, our label artist Emily Chappell has taken the legendary hotel featured on the original TBWC Aberlour label and turned it into a literal mash tun, popped open to show it’s inner workings, bubbling and boiling. The pooch appears no more impressed than on previous iterations, though.Tough crowd!"
First Edition Inchgower 1998
$244.99
Inchgower doesn't get enough love. It's one of Diageo's invisible distilleries, with most of its production destined for Bells Blended Whisky. Official bottlings are as nearly as scarce as hen's teeth. A tired cliche, I know, but quite apropos. Fortunately, we've seen a handful of really cool indie bottlings over the last couple years, such as this 1998 from First Editions. Not a bad price for a cask strength 23-year-old.
Only 120 bottles from Refill Hogshead HL18466.
Natural colour, non-chill filtered, and bottled at 55.4% abv.
Waterford Heritage Hunter 1.1
$129.99
This Irish Whiskey was featured on Day 11 of our 2023 KWM Whisky Calendar. You can check out Evan's blog post on the Waterford Heritage: Hunter here.
This is one of the most curious Waterford releases, as they have worked to revive an almost extinct barley varietal, named for its creator Dr. Herbert Hunter. The strain was prized for its flavour, but fell out of favour with those looking for larger yeilds. Produced from Hunter barley grown at the Dunoughmore and Rathdowney farms in 2018, the malt was fermented for 169 hours with Mauri yeast. The whisky was matured primarily in first fill ex-Bourbon, but also Virgin American, ex-French Wine, and Vin Doux Naturelle casks. Bottled at 50%. Only 48 bottles coming to Alberta, e
Producer Description
"Arcadian Barley, from our secret garden of delights, explores the natural flavours, intensity & honesty of the old ways. We have had to go to extraordinary lengths to eschew the quotidian varieties — those modern yield enhanced versions that distillers are obliged to use, in order to celebrate the lost flavours – flavours that evolved over centuries in harmony with Ireland’s terroirs. Indeed, to rediscover the flavour of iconic Irish barley we must venture back in time.
"Hunter, named after pioneering plant breeder Dr Herbert Hunter, was introduced in 1959 and was for almost two decades noted for its distinctive flavour. We now reintroduce this game-changing barley to a new era of single malt connoisseurs. Vanished from the Irish landscape since the late 1970s, superceded by more economically rewarding crosses, all that remained of Hunter was a 50 gram bag in the seed bank of the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine.
"Planted in greenhouse grow bags, this 50 grams grew to four kilograms, and the cycle went again and again over two years, until there was enough for ten acres at our partner Minch Malt’s test site in Athy. Test successful, Hunter was sown on a commercial scale on the lime-rich Elton series terroir of Donoughmore, yielding 25.5 tonnes of malting barley — enough to fill 50 casks. It is from that first pioneering distillation that this whisky has been drawn."