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%.
SMOS Res Casks No.9 Dailuaine 10 Year
$108.99
This Reserve Casks bottling of Dailuaine, from Elixir Distillers, is from six hogsheads, from a range of vintages (2006-2011), aged a minimum of 10 years before bottling at 48%.
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
SMOS Bunnahabhain 12 Year Cask 42645
$134.99
This unpeated young Bunna was distilled in 2009, and bottled after 12 years in an ex-Sherry Butt at 55.3%. Exclusive to KWM
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!