SMOS Ardmore 25 Year Cask 750792
$299.99
This whisky was featured on Day 20 of our 2025 KWM Still Not An Advent Calendar Tasting Series! You can read more about the whisky here.
It has been a couple of years since we've seen any new single casks from Single Malts of Scotland. This 1998 vintage Ardmore was bottled after 25 years in a Hogshead at 51.1%. Exclusive to KWM!
Black Tot Master Blenders Reserve 2024
$234.99
54.5% ABV
The 2024 edition of the Black Tot Master Blender's Reserve is Barbados (60%) heavy, with a high proportion of rums from Trinidad (25%) too. The full blend can be found below! 54.5%
Producer Description
"This year our Master Blender, Oliver Chilton, has included a higher percentage of Barbadian rums to accentuate the rich tropical fruits in the blend. As always, he has looked to put his own spin on the blend, this year including a 1997 rum from Trinidad’s lost distillery Caroni. Re-imagining the lost art of naval perpetual blending; he began with rum drawn from Master Blender’s Reserve from last year. Casks were then selected from Barbados, Trinidad, Guyana and Jamaica. These four unique country blends were then married together with our perpetual reserve, layered and perfectly balanced, to bring you Master Blender’s Reserve 2024. As always, flagons of original Royal Navy Rum are added to the blend to keep the liquid history alive."
SMOS Dir Spc Bruichladdich 30 Year
$999.99
Only 218 bottles were bottled of this 30 year old Bruichladdich from a single Hogshead cask, at 48.3%. Only 6 bottles coming to KWM!
Black Tot Historic Solera Rum
$109.99
This is a fun new rum from Black Tot, matured in a Solera System made from 70 year old Oloroso and PX Sherry casks (more details below). It is created from rums from Guyana, Barbados and Jamaica, aged tropically for at least 5 years, and at least 5 more in Europe. 46.2% 88pts Whisky Fun
Producer Description
"Black Tot Historic Solera is a decadent and elegant rum which has been aged in oak barrels that have been seasoned with Pedro Ximénez and Oloroso Sherries, before being further aged through a traditional 3-tier Solera process. Solera’s magic lies in blending rums of various ages. The younger rum interacts with the concentrated essence of older expressions, acquiring richer characteristics with each step. This continuous marriage between these various ageing rums results in a rum showcasing remarkable depth and character."
Whisky Trail Glen Keith 20 Year KWM Cask
$259.99
This 1996 vintage Glen Keith was matured 20 years in a Sherry Butt before bottling at 46.6%. Only 24 bottles have come to Canada, exclusively for Kensington Wine Market. But while our logo is on the label, there are just 24 bottles, meaning this isn't your typical KWM cask... so what's the story?!
More than a year ago, while looking at some casks with Elixir Distillers, we were offered 24 bottles of a 1996 Glen Keith, bottled at 20 years of age, presumably in 2016 or 2017. We assumed it was a single cask, bottled for another of Elixir Distillers' clients. In any case, the whisky was good, and the price was fair so we decided to take it.
On arrival, we did a little digging, and came upon an interesting coincidence. We don't know this for sure, but we can only find two other 20 year old 1996 vintage Glen Keiths bottled at 46.6%, and they were both done for the Whisky Exchange, which was owned by Elixir Distillers at the time. One of them appears to have been bottled for the 20th Anniversary of the Whisky Exchange in 2019, and the other, presumably the same year, as a Staff Christmas bottle, also marking the 20th Anniversary.
The most likely explanation, is that ours is the same whisky. In any case it is excellent, and we aren't getting very much of it!
SMOS Mannochmore 16 Year Cask 15262
$154.99
This 2006 vintage Mannochmore was matured 16 years in a Hogshead Cask (No.15262) before bottling at 54.5%.
Port Askaig 17 Year Islay Single Malt
$186.99
This whisky was featured on Day 10 of our 2025 KWM Still Not An Advent Calendar Tasting Series! You can read more about the whisky here.
The Port Askaig 17, and Cask Strength, are the first new whiskies we have seen in this range in a couple of years. Bottled at 50.5% from a parcel of undisclosed Islay single malt matured in ex-Bourbon casks. Very good chance this is Caol Ila... but we'll have to taste it to be sure! 87.55pts Whiskybase
SMOS Dir Spc Springbank 25 Year
$2,099.99
Only 3 bottles are coming to Canada of this 25 year old Springbank, bottled at 55.5% after maturing in a refill ex-Bourbon barrel. 90.2pts Whiskybase - Limit 1 Per Customer!
SMOS Dir Spc Laphroaig 27 Year
$1,299.99
Just 6 bottles of this 27 year old Laphroaig are coming in to Canada, bottled at 51.2%. 91pts Whisky Fun / 90.62pts Whiskybase