Whisky Trail Knights Strathclyde 35 Year
$399.99
This whisky was featured on Day 7 of our 2025 KWM Still Not An Advent Calendar Tasting Series! You can read more about the whisky here.
This 35 year old Strathclyde, single grain Scotch whisky, was distilled in 1987, matured in an ex-Bourbon Barrel, and has been bottled at 46%. Exclusive to KWM in Canada!
About The Whisky Trail
"The Whisky Trail is a collection of young and old casks, taking drinkers off the beaten path of whisky. Only whiskies that demonstrate the most exceptional characteristics are hand-selected to be bottled as part of the Whisky Trail range, and with each cask as unique as a fingerprint, no two expressions will ever be the same. To ensure each whisky maintains its full flavour and cask character, we never chill-filter or add colour."
Whisky Trail Cows BenRiach 15 Year
$179.99
This 15 year old BenRiach, from the 'Highland Cows' series under The Whisky Trail (Elixir Distillers), is from a Hogshead filled in 2008. 52.1% exclusive to KWM!
About The Whisky Trail
"This Whisky Trail range has been inspired by Scotland’s 2003 Land Reform Act: Freedom to Roam. This Act gives everyone the right to access the countryside for recreational and educational purposes. There are 28 single cask bottlings that are a part of this range, and highlight the scenes found while exploring Scotland’s awe-inspiring landscape. Only whiskies that demonstrate the most exceptional characteristics are bottled as part of the Whisky Trail range - each cask as unique as a fingerprint, no two expressions will ever be the same. To ensure each whisky maintains its full flavour and cask character, we never chill-filter or add colour."
Why Highland Cows (Coos)
"Highland Cows are known for their physical attributes and being indigenous to Scotland. They are viewed as symbols of Scotland’s rich cultural heritage and natural beauty."
Whisky Trail Cows Invergordon 49 Year
$684.99
This 1974 Invergordon Single Grain has been bottled after 49 years in a Hogshead cask at 45.4%. Part of the Whisky Trail, Highland Cows collection, the whisky is exclusive to KWM in Canada!
About The Whisky Trail
"This Whisky Trail range has been inspired by Scotland’s 2003 Land Reform Act: Freedom to Roam. This Act gives everyone the right to access the countryside for recreational and educational purposes. There are 28 single cask bottlings that are a part of this range, and highlight the scenes found while exploring Scotland’s awe-inspiring landscape. Only whiskies that demonstrate the most exceptional characteristics are bottled as part of the Whisky Trail range - each cask as unique as a fingerprint, no two expressions will ever be the same. To ensure each whisky maintains its full flavour and cask character, we never chill-filter or add colour."
Why Highland Cows (Coos)
"Highland Cows are known for their physical attributes and being indigenous to Scotland. They are viewed as symbols of Scotland’s rich cultural heritage and natural beauty."
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%.