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*** FOR IN - STORE TASTINGS: PLEASE SELECT THE PICKUP OPTION  - WE DO NOT SEND TICKETS  - YOUR NAME IS ADDED TO THE GUEST LIST *** 

VIRTUAL TASTING SAMPLES CAN BE PICKED UP OR DELIVERED ( FOR A FEE) 

**NOTE** We are now offering Both Virtual and in-store tastings. Virtual tastings will clearly state that above the name of the tasting. 

Liquor tasting samples for virtual tastings are typically 15ml each unless otherwise indicated.

  • We offer Free City Wide Delivery within the  Calgary city limits for Orders Over $ 250  ** ONLY if all samples can be delivered at the same time. If you are purchasing multiple events - logistically, we may not be able to have all samples ready to go in one delivery. As you do have the option of picking up your samples, we will deliver as much as we can in the first delivery for free, any subsequent deliveries will be $10. 
  • We can arrange shipping within Alberta for a fee. - packaging and shipping fees apply.
  • We do Not ship out of the Province.

Please be sure to include a valid email address in your order as we will contact participants a few days before the tasting with instructions on how to participate.

Cancellation Policy:

  • Registrations can be gifted or transferred - you are welcome to allow someone else to take your place if you cannot take part in the tasting.
    • For virtual tastings you will need to arrange getting them the samples if you have already received them, You are also responsible to send them the link for the tasting as it will be emailed to the purchaser.
    • For in person events, You would need to give us their name for the list if you are not attending.
  • Tastings are non refundable – For both virtual and In Person events, you will receive a ** store credit for the value if you cancel more than 48 hours in advance of the event. *** PLEASE NOTE: Larger group cancellations (3 or more)  for in store tastings require the cancellation request be submitted a minimum of 4 days prior to the tasting for a store credit to be applied. 
  • Due to the logistics of pickup and delivery of samples for virtual  , cancellations will not be considered within 7 days of the tasting,**  or if you have already received the tastings samples. Once delivered or picked up, we cannot take the tasting bottles back.
  • Store Credits can be used for anything KWM sells  - you do not have to use them specifically for tastings.

Tastings typically start at 7:00 pm unless otherwise noted. Please make sure you are aware of the start time.
We encourage participants to drink responsibly.

February 2025

A Date with Whisky & Chocolate

  • February 13, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • KWM IN STORE
  • $75.00
This Valentine’s Day, elevate your celebration with an unforgettable evening designed for true connoisseurs. This exclusive 18+ event features a selection of exceptional single malt whiskies, each aged 18 years or more. Savour a curated flight of these distinguished spirits, perfectly paired with a decadent mini meal, and end on a sweet note with a dessert menu highlighting indulgent chocolate creations.

Thursday, February 13th @ 7 PM


This event is sold out.

A Date with Bubbles & Cheese

  • February 14, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • KWM IN STORE
  • $70.00
Sure, you could do a date night with chocolate, but why not go for bubbles and cheese instead? Nothing goes with cheese like wine, and nothing beats sparkling wine for celebrating! Valentine's Day seems like a good day to celebrate perfect pairs everywhere, doesn't it?

Friday, February 14th @ 7 PM


This event is sold out.

Virtual Tasting
Another Bowmarathon - Core Range v. Sherry Oak & Two Twenty-Somethings!

  • February 18, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • $40.00
*THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING*

There is a little buzz surrounding the launch of the Bowmore Sherry Oak range, so we've got a wee head-to-head battle planned. The new Bowmore Sherry Oak 12, 15, and 18-year-olds will toe-up against the core range Bowmore 12, 15, and 18-year-olds. And as a special cherry on top, we will pour the Bowmore 25 Year again and our own exclusive Berry's Bowmore 1997 KWM Cask. All modesty aside (yes, we do have some), the latter dram alone is worth the price of admission.

TASTING KITS ARE READY FOR PICKUP!

Tuesday, February 18th @ 7 PM


This event is sold out.

SMWS 1.9.8.3. 40th Anniversary In-Person Tasting

  • February 20, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • KWM IN STORE
  • $85.00
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society got its start back in 1983, which is somehow more than 40 years in the past now. To celebrate the SMWS (and the rest of us) getting old, the Society created the 1.9.8.3 lineup and sold it as a 4 pack. KWM hates to be left out of trying bottles, so we decided to sacrifice a set and build a tasting around it.

This tasting includes all four bottles in the sold out 1.9.8.3 range, plus four other SMWS bottles that never made it into an Outturn here in Canada!

This special, not-so-blind SMWS tasting will include:
1.283 - HAPPY IN A HIPPY SHOP
9.274 - TOFFEE APPLE ORCHARD
8.43 - SHADED BY FLOWERS
3.348 - MELLIFLUOUS QUINCE

Plus:
19.83 - FORTIFICATION FROM VIENNA TO ATHENS (Also bottled for the SMWS's 40th Anniversary)
66.240 - NUTS AND BELTS AND ENGINE OIL (Poured at the Victoria Whisky Festival)
4.320 - VIKING. MODERATE. GALE FORCE 8
53.485 - SUPERNATURALLY SWEET SMOKE (For sale and available, but not featured in an Outturn. This is the first 'S' in the 2024/2025 SMWS Winter Series)

Thursday, February 20th @ 7PM


This event is sold out.

Sherry, Port, Madeira & More: the Something Stronger Wine Tasting

  • February 21, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • KWM IN STORE
  • $50.00
In this tasting, we will explore some of the more popular styles of fortified wines in the world! We'll discuss the historical and cultural reasons for fortification and how and where it's still done today! As always, our friends at Peasant Cheese will be providing snacks, some of which, will be specifically paired with the wine we'll be trying.

P.S: If you're a whisky geek, this is a great tasting for you to try all the wines that are used for barrel-finishing whisky and flex on your friends with that knowledge.

Friday, February 21st @ 7 PM


Seats Remaining: 11
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Virtual Tasting
Macallan at 200 Years & Counting!

  • February 25, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • $95.00
*THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING*

Macallan has now been around for two centuries, having been founded back in 1824. It's distillery, choice of bottle, and advertising budget are among the most discussed topics by whisky lovers 'round the globe. Macallan's special editions are especially a sight to behold and create excitement and fervour.

We have put one of these special releases in this tasting just because we want to see what it is all about ourselves: the glorious and hole-y Macallan Time: Space Mastery. Whether it is a Dr Strange movie tie-in or a highly suggestive centrepiece, the bottle definitely makes a statement. Also included in this prestigious tasting are: The Macallan 12 and 18 Year Sherry Oak, 15 Year Double Cask, the 2024 Edition of Macallan Classic Cut, the Jerez bottling of from the Last Night On Earth series, and two 20+ Year old Speymalt Macallan bottlings from the fine folks at Gordon & MacPhail.

This bespoke, handcrafted, luxury virtual tasting is brought to you by the illustrious KWM crew. Black tie dress code is optional, but please make sure to wear something if you are going to turn your webcam on.

Tuesday, February 25th @ 7PM

TASTING KITS ARE READY FOR PICKUP!


This event is sold out.

Virtual Tasting
SMWS 1.9.8.3. 40th Anniversary Virtual Tasting

  • February 26, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • $80.00
*THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING*

The Scotch Malt Whisky Society got its start back in 1983, which is somehow more than 40 years in the past now. To celebrate the SMWS (and the rest of us) getting old, the Society created the 1.9.8.3 lineup and sold it as a 4 pack. KWM hates to be left out of trying bottles, so we decided to sacrifice a set and build a tasting around it.

This tasting includes all four bottles in the sold out 1.9.8.3 range, plus four other SMWS bottles that never made it into an Outturn here in Canada!

This special, not-so-blind SMWS tasting will include:
1.283 - HAPPY IN A HIPPY SHOP
9.274 - TOFFEE APPLE ORCHARD
8.43 - SHADED BY FLOWERS
3.348 - MELLIFLUOUS QUINCE

Plus:
19.83 - FORTIFICATION FROM VIENNA TO ATHENS (Also bottled for the SMWS's 40th Anniversary)
66.240 - NUTS AND BELTS AND ENGINE OIL (Poured at the Victoria Whisky Festival)
4.320 - VIKING. MODERATE. GALE FORCE 8
53.485 - SUPERNATURALLY SWEET SMOKE (For sale and available, but not featured in an Outturn. This is the first 'S' in the 2024/2025 SMWS Winter Series)

Wednesday, February 26th @ 7PM


Seats Remaining: 2
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It's All Iberian to Me: Exploring Portugal and its Wine

  • February 27, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • KWM IN STORE
  • $40.00
Portugal has been producing great wines outside the Port realm for many years now, and we have expanded this section considerably to the point where they deserve a wider audience. We now carry the exceptional whites from Anselmo Mendes, widely regarded as the best white winemaker in the country, and we will taste his wines alongside some beautifully structured reds. Bring your toothbrush.

Thursday, February 27th @ 7 PM


This event is sold out.

Cheese Please: Mix & Matchup

  • February 28, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • KWM IN STORE
  • $50.00
KWM and Peasant Cheese go head-to-head in an interactive cheese and wine showdown. There will be six cheeses paired against six wines. Neither will know what the other is bringing to the table. Through a democratic process (ie., pick a number between x and y), a wine or cheese will be presented. If it starts with a cheese, Marnie will pick a wine to match. If it starts with a wine, Peasant will pick a cheese to match. The challenge will go back and forth for 6 rounds total. At the end, you can weigh in and declare your favourite match-up of the night. It's proven to be a ton of fun, and educational too.

Friday, February 28th @ 7PM


This event is sold out.

March 2025

Life is a Cabernet

  • March 1, 2025
  • 5 PM
  • KWM IN STORE
  • $60.00
Cabernet Sauvignon forms the backbone of many of the world's great red wines, and in this tasting we will sample a range from around the globe, all high quality, from Bordeaux to Barossa along with stops between.

Saturday, March 1st @ 5 PM


Seats Remaining: 4
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Virtual Tasting
Edradour to the Extreme

  • March 4, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • $85.00
*THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING*

Edradour has been trending up in our esteem over the last half decade or so. The improvements made by Andrew Symington, especially with respect to casks, has born fruit. We have cobbled together an intriguing range of both peated and unpeated Edradour, including the two oldest expressions of Edradour yet to come to Canada (25 Year & Symington's 23 Year), as well as the oldest Ballechin ever bottled!

Tuesday, March 4, @ 7PM

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This event is sold out.

Virtual Tasting
SMWS March Virtual Outturn 7PM

  • March 5, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • $60.00
Log in, pour your drams and join us from home, the ski chalet, or work... for the March Scotch Malt Whisky Society Canada Virtual Outturn Tasting ! The KWM team will be your guide as you sample through an exciting range of 7 SMWS bottlings. SMWS Members Save $10 on their tasting registration (discount is limited to 1 per member if you are buying a ticket for another member as well as yourself, you will only get one member price).

Wednesday, March 5th @ 7 PM


Seats Remaining: 13
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SMWS March In-Person Outturn 6PM

  • March 6, 2025
  • 6 PM
  • KWM
  • $65.00
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Canada’s March 2025 Outturn tasting will feature 7 new bottlings and some nibbles from our friends at Peasant Cheese and the comradery that can only come from 20 SMWS Members in our tasting room. SMWS Members Save $10 on their tasting registration (discount is limited to 1 per member if you are buying a ticket for another member as well as yourself, you will only get one member price).

Thursday, March 6th @ 6 PM


Seats Remaining: 11
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SMWS March In-Person Outturn 8 PM

  • March 6, 2025
  • 8 PM
  • KWM
  • $65.00
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Canada’s March 2025 Outturn tasting will feature 7 new bottlings and some nibbles from our friends at Peasant Cheese and the comradery that can only come from 20 SMWS Members in our tasting room. SMWS Members Save $10 on their tasting registration (discount is limited to 1 per member if you are buying a ticket for another member as well as yourself, you will only get one member price).

Thursday, March 6th @ 8 PM


Seats Remaining: 16
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The Lassies Only Whisky Festival

  • March 7, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • KWM IN STORE
  • $50.00
Sorry gents, this whisky festival is just for the ladies! Our 5th Annual Lassies Only Whisky Festival takes place just before International Women's Day - on Friday, March 7th. Guests will be able to sample from up to 80 whiskies in a fun and relaxed setting, without any dudes - other than the friendly staff at KWM. We will also be featuring some delicious bites from our neighbour Peasant Cheese.

Ticket proceeds from this event will be donated to The Brenda Strafford Foundation’s Heart Home Network. The Heart Home Network operates Alberta’s largest second-stage shelter and offers support & programs for women & children.

Friday, March 7th from 7 PM to 9 PM


Seats Remaining: 23
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Virtual Tasting
The Sponge Is Dead - Long Live the Sponge!

  • March 11, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • $100.00
*THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING*

All good things must come to an end, and so it is with the Whisky Sponge range from Decadent Drinks. We'll be tasting the last 6 releases, and a couple more to round up the lineup to 8 whiskies. Our range: Ardnamurchan 7 Year, Bruichladdich 19 Year, Glen Grant 20 Year, Glen Moray 32 Year, Jura 30 Year, Sideburn (cough Balvenie) 31 Year, Tennessee Bourbon 8 Year, and a 15 year old Inchmurrin bottled for one of our employee's whisky club. It is sure to be a very spongeworthy tasting!

Tuesday, March 11, @ 7 PM

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Seats Remaining: 12
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Kilchoman Distillery with James Wills

  • March 13, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • KWM
  • $30.00
We have had the privilege of hosting Anthony Wills, founder of the Kilchoman Distillery, close to a dozen times over the last 20 years. We are thrilled to welcome his son James Wills, Kilchoman Sales & Marketing Manager, for an in-store vertical tasting. Guests will sample their way through 7 Kilchoman expressions, most of them new releases.

Thursday, March 13th @ 7 PM


Seats Remaining: 10
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The Annual Irish Whiskey Tasting

  • March 14, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • KWM IN STORE
  • $35.00
The approach of St. Paddy's Day means everyone’s feeling a little more Irish, and it is high time for a focused Irish Whiskey tasting. Come down to Kensington Wine Market and take a wander across the Emerald Isle, tasting you way through some of the finest whiskey the island has to offer. Find out why Irish Whiskey is booming and taste some whiskey from distilleries both new and old!

Friday, March 14th @ 7PM


Seats Remaining: 13
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Virtual Tasting
Welcome to Whiskyland… a Very Decadent Place!

  • March 18, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • $150.00
*THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING*

"Welcome to Whiskyland, please unpack all your opinions and pre-conceptions and leave them in a tidy puddle over by that wormhole. You’ll no doubt be tired from your life, please pull up a concept and take the weight off your humanity for a while."

We'll dig into the first four chapters or Whiskyland: Springbank 26 Year, Bowmore 20 Year, Glen Grant 31 Year, and BenRiach 33 Year, as well as the Decadent Drams Blended Malt 23 Year, Islay Sponge Pt.6 Caol Ila 13 Year, and Secret Sponge Williamson 10 Year.

"Whiskyland is your land, if you are reading this it is the culture and world that you know very well. The same one that brought you here, makes you love this product and the same one that occasionally drives you wild with frustration. It can be messy, bewildering and confusing at the best of times, and that’s why we’ve developed this handy 100 chapter guide to the ups downs ins outs and aroundabouts of Whiskyland. Now, if you’re living comfortably, we’ll begin..."

Tuesday, March 18, @ 7 PM

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Seats Remaining: 2
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100 British Proof - An Almost Cask Strength Tasting

  • March 20, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • KWM IN STORE EVENT NOT VIRTUAL
  • $50.00
Do you know the difference between 100 British Proof and Cask Strength? 100 British Proof, which is approximately 57.1%, is the strength at which the alcohol would light if mixed with gunpowder. If it lit, it was above proof, if it didn't, it was below proof. We will sample a range of 100 Proof whiskies, including more than a few from the Signatory 100 Proof range.

Thursday, March 20, @ 7 PM


Seats Remaining: 14
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Virtual Tasting
Signatory Vintage - Symington's Choice Selections

  • March 25, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • $125.00
*THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING*

It's a good thing we were always planning to do a tasting with some of the recent arrivals for this range because we clearly didn't order enough. Most of them have already sold out! This range is epic, mostly sherry cask matured, and getting some superb reviews. We'll sample: Auchentoshan 24 Year, Ben Nevis 32 Year, Bowmore 24 Year, Glenlivet 25 Year, Glen Keith 26 Year, Glenrothes 26 Year, and Laphroaig 25 Year. In all, that is 189 years worth of Andrew Symington's finest single malts!

Tuesday, March 25, @ 7 PM

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This event is sold out.

Virtual Tasting
Single Cask Nation KWM Cask Launch with Joshua Hatton

  • March 26, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • $35.00
THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING

Joshua Hatton, co-founder of Single Cask Nation, will join us for a virtual launch tasting for our new KWM exclusive single Caol Ila Single cask. We have a range of seven whiskies we'll be tasting: Balmenach 11 Year, Blacksboat Bridge 13 Year, Bunnahabhain 10 Year, Cambus 35 Year, Linkwood 18 Year, Tobermory 16 Year, and our new Caol Ila 8 Year KWM Rum Finished Cask.

Wednesday, March 26th @ 7 PM


Seats Remaining: 19
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April 2025

Virtual Tasting
New Benromach & Gordon & MacPhail KWM Cask with Andrew & James Bornn

  • April 8, 2025
  • 7 PM
  • $50.00
THIS IS A VIRTUAL TASTING

We love talking all things Benromach and Gordon & MacPhail, so we are thrilled to welcome a new cask of each, both coincidentally 2002 vintages. Andrew will be joined by our friend James Bornn for a tasting featuring our new Benromach 2002 KWM Cask #969 and G&M Connoisseurs Choice Caol Ila 2002 Cask #8384. The lineup will also include a 2003 Benromach, Caol Ila's from 1998 and 2007, as well as whiskies from Ledaig (2007), Glentauchers (2008), and Longmorn (1996).

Tuesday, April 8th @ 7 PM


Seats Remaining: 11
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