Bowmore Mizunara Wood
$1,169.99
Sovereign Cambus 40 Year
$395.99
Distilled in 1975 and bottled in 2015 at 57.7%. Only 12 bottles have comein to Calgary exclusively to KWM. The whisky was matured in a Refill Hogshead cask. The distillery closed in 1993.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: Old English Butterscotch ice cream, apple crumble, brown sugar and creme brule; this is soft, decadent and fruity with firm toasted oak.
Palate: more OEB ice cream, but also vanilla ice cream melting over warm apple crumble thick with brown sugar; Panda brand licorice, candied fennel and hints of espresso; earthy, oaky and spicy with lots of white fruit.
Finish: long toasty and spicy with loads of creamy oak and baked white fruits.
Comment: this is starting to show its age but is still far from over the edge, it is lovely!
Dailuaine 34yr
$799.99
Only on of 4 Dailuaine official bottlings ever released. This 34 year old, distilled in 1980 is part of Diageo's 2015 Special Releases. KWM is getting just 6 bottles. Bottled at 50.9% from Refill American Oak only 3000 bottles were released worldwide!
Distiller's Tasting Note:
Nose: Light and immediate, with citrus backed by rich, creamy toffee and grainy cereals. Fragrant and herbal too, with a perfumed top note joined by more detailed maltiness, with barley sugar and subtle peat.
Palate: Smooth textured at full strength; sweet overall, with fresh acidity and a saltiness unusual in Dailuaine, which develops as a drying, cough-candy note - deepening into dense and spicy dark chocolate-coated ginger.
Finish: There's a peppery tingle in the warming finish, which is oaky and herbal with dry, coating tannins.
Note: Only the fourth new official bottling and the first for six years, this is an outstanding and unusually fragrant example of this robust classic that has an unexpected spicy complexity.
Springbank 12 Year Cask Strength 53.8%
$82.79
This 2015 release of the ever popular Springbank 12 Year Cask Strength has been bottled at 53.8% after maturing in 70% Sherry Casks and 30% Ex-Bourbon casks. A very limited quantity has come into Alberta.
Distiller's Tasting Note
Nose: There’s a saltiness similar to Campbeltown Loch fishing creels, a typical Springbank maritime style. Spicy notes are very dominant: cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon sticks and some ground black pepper.
Palate: Lip licking - thickly buttered gingerbread, sticky toffee pudding and crème brûlée. Cream and butter really coat the mouth in classic Campbeltown style.
Finish: Dry finish ending with barbecue smoke and chicory sauce.
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 93.63
$149.39
UNAPOLOGETIC NON-CONFORMIST
This 15 year old from Campbeltown is 56.1% after maturing in a refill hogshead
Flavour profile: Oily & coastal
Outturn: 275 bottles
Panel's tasting note: "To nose, we found venison in a red wine and cocoa sauce, maple syrup on pancakes and salted rum caramel. Then, a furniture workshop was crafting benches for a bodega whilst a mechanic with grimy overalls tucked into a bacon sandwich at the beach. To taste, cranberries coated in chocolate, melted salted butter on Belgian waffles, and hoisin sauce noodles. Water brought brown envelopes, wet seaside rocks, Branston pickle, and memories of smoking a shisha pipe (apple tobacco) in a leather armchair. It was sweet and earthy with papaya, roasted beetroot, salted cashews, mint humbugs and bran cereal. Conformity is overrated."
Drinking tip: "While camping on the beach"
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Creative Whisky Co. Exclusive Blend 1991
$101.69
Exclusive to KWM in Canada, only 18 bottles! It is a 21 year old very small batch blend, 80% malt and 20% grain, matured in Refill Sherry Casks, 46%. KWM Exclusive.
Whisky Advocate Review 92pts: "From whisky connoisseur David Stirk's Exclusive Malts Single Cask Cask Strength range, this is a blend made with 80% malt, and it shows. This is a beauty. It's also a ‘traffic light’ whisky, with the sort of whisky rancio associated with the oldest whiskies up front, peaches and cream and pureed fruit in the center, and changing to oaky spiciness late on. Whisky with body, depth, and balance, which morph seamlessly. Very good indeed."
Creative Whisky Co. Glenturret 1994
$143.99
Exclusive to the Kensington Wine Market in Canada, only 18 bottles have come into the market and they won't last long. Bottled at 51.5% the whisky is very soft and fruity. It is an excellent, balanced and layered malt from Scotland's oldest surviving distillery!
Creative Whisky Co. Tobermory 1994
$130.49
Only 18 bottles of this single cask whisky have come into Alberta, all of them exclusive to KWM. Half have already sold. The single cask was bottled at 53.8% from cask 96.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: powdered sugar and lemon juice on French crepes and Belgian waffles and whipped topping; honeydew melons, polished church pews and cramel apples.
Palate: soft creamy and very decadent with bags of honey, toasted oak and loads of licorice; as it settles down the waffle and crepe notes reemerge with more whipped topping, powdered sugar and crisp citrus: lemon peel, lemon juice and lemon drops; the melons and other fruits are there but hiding under the polished church pews.
Finish: long, creamy and coating with fading toasty oak, fruits and spices.
Comment: at 5 years old, cask strength, and nearly $40 less expensive than the distillery 15 year this one is a gem, easily the best Tobermory currently in store.
Creative Whisky Co. Bowmore 2002
$119.69