Macbeth Collection Act I - Full Set

$19,507.00

This is a complete set of Elixir Distillers Macbeth Collection - Act 1. 239 years of liquid history in 7 bottles!

About the Macbeth Collection Act I

"A collection of forty two different whiskies from the length and breadth of Scotlandselected and bottled by Livingstone in partnership with Elixir Distillers,each representing a character from the Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare.With illustrations by Sir Quentin Blake, and character notes by Dave Broom.

"WHY MACBETH?: It is the ultimate Scottish family drama; akin to the history of the Scotch whiskyindustry itself. Feuds, triumphs, allegiances and betrayals...The play is full of great characters, perfect to build whisky profiles around.From bright to dark, light to heavy, all Scotch whisky can be represented.There are a fixed number of characters - meaning the series is finite. This is key when creating a meaningful collection."

This set includes one bottle of each of the following:

1. Macbeth Collection Cambus 31 Year - 
2. Macbeth Collection Glen Grant 56 Year
3. Macbeth Collection BenRiach 31 Year
4. Macbeth Collection Glen Garioch 31 Year
5. Macbeth Collection Linkwood 31 Year
6. Macbeth Collection Ardbeg 19 Year
7. Macbeth Collection Ledaig 18 Year
8. Macbeth Collection Ardmore 12 Year
9. Macbeth Collection Blair Athol 10 Year

Ardbeg Eureka

$119.99

SOLD OUT - Sorry! -  Place an order if you would like to be put on a waiting list in the event we are able to get more!

Bottled to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Ardbeg Committee, Eureka was produced by marrying spirit made with roasted malt matured in ex-Bourbon Casks, with spirit matured in Pedro Ximenez Sherry Casks. 52.2% You have to be an Ardbeg Committee Member to buy this bottle, but we have no way of verifying membership so we go with the honour system. If you aren't already a member, joining is easy, it takes about 30 seconds: www.ardbeg.com/en-gb/committee

Producer Description

"For a quarter of a century, it has been the Ardbeg Committee’s raison d’être to debate, discuss and disagree in any way it sees fit about the ultimate Islay malt. As indeed a select group were summoned to do in a hidden corner of the Distillery one Ardbeg Day. This whisky is the result of those top secret deliberations. After months of experimentation in pursuit of the ultimate Committee bottling, our whisky creation team have pulled off the impossible.

"Is it possible to capture the multifarious flavour preferences of thousands of fans in a single dram? If this bottling is anything to go by, the answer is a resounding ‘yes!’ By skilfully combining PX sherry casks with roasted malt spirit matured in bourbon casks, Ardbeg’s whisky creators have masterminded this exuberant and complex dram. Salted crispy seaweed and sweet cinnamon jostle with dark chocolate coated raisins and burning embers. A paradoxical whisky truly befitting the hotchpotch nature of the Committee, united by a love of all things smoky. Eureka!"

Ardbeg 8 Years Old For Discussion

$107.99

SOLD OUT!

Ardbeg 8 Years Old is a big, youthful, deliberately challenging whisky that we think our smoke-loving, insanely committed Committee Members will go wild for. 50.8% ex-Sherry Casks.

Producer Description

"Unmistakeable smoky intensity. Charcoal and creosote. Curious hints of fennel and celery mixed with woodsmoke… Ardbeg 8 Years Old is guaranteed to provoke discussion.

Only available online, and only available to Committee Members, this bottling is pretty rare too… Buy, try and discuss the dram with us on social media using #Ardbeg8ForDiscussion. We look forward to hearing what you have to say!

If you’re not already a Member of the Ardbeg Committee and don’t want to miss out on this bottling, plus lots of other exclusives in the future, you can sign up here."

*At the direction of Moet Hennessey, we are only able to offer this Ardbeg for sale online. That means no email or phone orders, and the bottle will not be available for purchase in-store. Bottles purchased online can be picked up in-store, delivered in Calgary (for a fee if applicable), or packed for pick-up.

Berry`s Tobermory 2008 KWM Cask

$104.99

Distilled in 2008, this 13-14-year-old Tobermory was matured in a Sherry Butt, cask 900166, before bottling at an impressive 64.8%. This is our first ever single cask of Tobermory, and it is a massive and sherried coastal dram! 504 bottles in total.

A missive from Evan on this bottle, and Tobermory in general:

The spirit distilled by Tobermory typically falls into the sabre-rattling love-it or leave-it categories with most whisky fans. There is no middle ground: a vast and barren no man's land keeps these conflicting groups apart. As you would guess, I am well-dug into the trenches on the love-it side of the battlefield. So is my comrade in arms; Harmony. She and I happily spread the good word of Tobermory and Ledaig with evangelistic fervour to all who would listen. Sadly, Curt and Andrew - being the philistines they are - have found less to enjoy from this remarkable island distillery. Keen to wallow in their closed-minded wrong-headedness, they spend much of their spare time rabble-rousing and lobbing insults at us from the safety of their pathetic ditch across the way.

Amazingly, this specific and singular single-cask of Tobermory has managed to create a sort of detente, with the four of us being so utterly impressed by the cask sample we tasted of this that we had to have it for the store. Andrew's own tasting notes mention something akin to Ledaig simmering in the depths of the high-octane liquid (64.8% ABV!). I believe he means that as a compliment. If that is true, then it is truly shocking, but I have no choice but to agree! We are all glad we selected this single cask, which is unpeated but bursting with flavour nonetheless.

Scroll down to find my tasting notes which are sure to provide you with even more reason to join Harmony and me on the front lines, fighting the good fight and defending against any haters. For, this isn't just another bottle of whisky: it is a rallying cry meant to be taken up by all Tobermory lovers everywhere!

G&M CC Ardmore 1997 KWM Cask 5564

$399.99

This whisky was featured on Day 25 of our 2024 KWM Not An Advent Calendar Tastings! You can read more about the whisky here.

The staff at KWM are divided on Ardmore generally speaking, but never on Ardmore from a Gordon & MacPhail sherry cask! This 1997 vintage Ardmore was matured for a quarter of a century in an active Refill Sherry Cask, and bottled at 50.3%. It was selected by and bottled exclusively for your humble whisky drudges at KWM!

(Above — A random Calgary Flames Fan discusses and tastes the G&M Connoisseurs Choice Ardmore 1997 KWM Cask 5564)

Compass Box GKS Glasgow KWM Cask 2

$89.99

Bottled at 49%, this is our 2nd Glasgow Blend Single Marrying Cask from Compass Box. Married in April 27, 2020 in a American Oak Barrel, Cask No. 130, it was Bottled August 18, 2021. 228 total bottles. The Glasgow Blend is Compass Box's peated and sherried Blended Scotch Whisky. This bottling is from an extra matured single marrying cask of Glasgow Blended Scotch Whisky, selected by and bottled exclusively for KWM.

The Components of Our Cask - Pre-Finishing in 1 Year & 5 Months in an American Oak Barrel

1. 38% Cameronbridge First Fill Bourbon Barrel

2. 31% Distillery Near the Town of Aberlour Revatted Oloroso Sherry-Seasoned Butt (cough Craigellachie!)

3. 17% Laphroaig Refill Hogshead

4. 9% Clynelish Distillery First Fill Bourbon Barrel

5. 3% Highland Malt Blend Custom French Oak Cask - Very Heavy Toast

6. 2% Clynelish First Fill Bourbon Barrel

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."

Benromach 2007 Bourbon Cask #136

$209.99

Benromach is one of the most exciting distilleries in Scotland right now. Kensington Wine Market has been fortunate enough to bottle a handful of single casks for the store, and hope to continue doing do for a long time to come, so it's not really a surprise we just keep a hand held out hoping that more samples fall into our greedy little fingers.

A few months back, we tasted a couple of brilliant Benromach cask samples and fell pretty hard for a couple of ex-Bourbon matured malts. One we immediately committed to for the shop (mum's the word for now); the other - an absolutely cracking bottle of 15-year-old, moderately-peated (and very old school!) whisky - was bought by a private club. A handful of these bottles will be available in the store to tide you over until the next KWM bespoke release. Cask #136 had an outturn of 206 bottles. Its reputation is spreading, so don't expect these to last long.

Natural colour, non-chill filtered, and bottled at 57.2%. 

Benromach 2002 KWM Bourbon 25ml Sample

$11.99

This is a 25ml sample of our Benromach 2002 KWM Bourbon Cask 875. The sample comes with a QR code, linked to a virtual tasting video on our YouTube page, for the whisky with Andrew. This 19 year old Benromach was matured in a First Fill ex-Bourbon Barrel before bottling at 56.2%. For more details on the product please visit the product page!

Our 5th KWM exclusive Benromach cask (3rd in the current packaging) was bottled just shy of its 20th birthday, having matured in a single first-fill ex-Bourbon Barrel. This whisky is bright, creamy, tropical, and decadent with clean smoke. It is the closest thing we've ever tasted to the legendary twenty-something Broras... Only 196 bottles were filled at 56.2%.