Scotch Malt Whisky Society 89.10
$92.99
GLOVE BOX SONATA IN B MINOR
This 7 year old Speysider comes in at 64.1% after maturing in a refill butt.
Flavour profile: Young & spritely.
Outturn: 556 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "An elegant and supple aroma of white port, stone fruits, pear skins, orange travel sweets, candy floss and a warm barley steep. There’s also grape must, lychee, horse box, white chocolate dipped marzipan, almond puree and sultanas soaked in mead. With dilution the aroma opens onto cough syrup, hand lotion, sun cream, olive oil cake, malt bins, lemon peel, sunflower seeds, brown bread and warm grist.
The palate begins with tinned peaches, ripe pears, green apple, sweet wort, aged grappa, cider brandy, raisins stewed in young Calvados, chopped chives and clover. Water reveals cocoa nibs, shea butter, putty, sweet wines, waxed canvas, cooking oils, flints, tart gooseberry and graphite oil."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 113.22
$130.99
CREAM OF THE CROP
This 8 year old Speysider was matured in a 1st fill barrel and is 64%.
Flavour profile: Juicy, oak & vanilla.
Outturn: 247 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "A perfumed bouquet coupled flower gardens rich in roses with creamy vanilla and toffee as ripe apples fell from orchard trees. A foamy lava of shampoo blew in the breeze like pink candyfloss whilst the palate brought a tingle of fresh chillies and citrus. Heavy oak created fantastically chewy textures as caramel biscuits enhanced the malty notes of crunchy kiln dried barley.
A few drops of water encouraged sandalwood and dried pine cones to tumble alongside freshly harvested grains before fruity notes combined lemon and mango with lavender soap. The palate had become creamier, abundant with vanilla and custard cream biscuits on a bed of oak shavings. Boiled brown rice then accompanied oat cakes as the finish continued into herbal realms."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 112.46
$154.99
A WAFER A WHILE
This 14 year old Highlander spent 12 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead before being transferred to a 1st fill French oak hogshead for the remainder of its maturation, and comes in at 56.7%.
Flavour profile: Sweet, fruity & mellow.
Outturn: 368 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "As the sun warmed our skin we drifted away to the smell of 1980's suntan lotion and salty sea air. Oil and buttery notes combined with creamy strawberry yogurt, that chilled down to multiple scoops of vanilla ice cream precariously perched on a crunchy caramel wafer. Confected fruit passed by as bubble gum merged with sticky fruit pastries, and joined the malty sweetness of breakfast cereal.
Milk chocolate and praline delivered us to a palate of deliberate funk as fermenting fruit wandered helplessly towards scrumptious cider. The fruit matured into cool white wine loaded with ripe banana and mango flavours, just as we awoke to find an empty wafer cone and melted ice cream on the sand. Twelve years matured in an ex-bourbon hogshead before transfer to a French oak hogshead."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society 10.179
$167.99
FLAMINGOS SMOKING PIPE TOBACCO
This 12 year old from Islay comes in at 60.2%; it spent 10 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead before being transferred to a 1st fill red wine barrique for the remainder of its maturation.
Flavour profile: Heavily peated.
Outturn: 243 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "A beautifully pink hue introduced aromas of salty sea air and sea shells as the sweet reek from burning peat wafted over barley. Fresh seaweed provided a mineralic edge that merged with sour cherries and morphed into cranberries on the palate, with a glass of port. Big and chewy chunks of charcoal rolled with tar and chimney soot before vanilla ice cream introduced wonderful textures.
Water on the smouldering ash unleashed more bellowing clouds of smoke but this time from sweetly scented pipe tobacco. Burning gorse and kelp combined with smoked ham as more medicinal notes of antiseptic cream and cough sweets united. Finally plum and gooseberry tarts brought a sweetness to the finish alongside liquorice and heat rub. After spending 10 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead this was transferred to a 1st fill red wine barrique for the remainder of its maturation."
G&M CC Glenburgie 1990
$1,099.99
Only a dozen or so bottles of this very sherried Glenbrugie are coming to Alberta, exclusively to KWM. Bottled at 52% after maturing 30 years in a Refill Sherry Butt cask #9027801. 92.42pts Whisky Base
Celebration of the Cask Bowmore 23 Year
$539.99
Kavalan French Wine Single Cask TM Annv
$399.99
!!!LIMIT 1 PER CUSTOMER!!! Truth Malters, importer for Kavalan, is celebrating their 1st Anniversary, with some special bottlings. This French Wine Cask matured whisky has been bottled after 7 and a half years at 59.4% with just 156 bottles released. Each bottle was hand signed by Master Blender Ian Chang on his last day at Kavalan, February 29, 2020.
Producer Tasting Note
Nose: Guava and honey covered apricots. Sweet melon and apples dressed up in a floral bouquet. Green grapes with dark chocolate and dried fruits abundant with hints of vanilla and wine gummies.
Palate: A beautiful soft sweet spice that is so clean and fresh on the palate. The sweet melon bursts through along with cherries and vanilla. There is a really nice dark dried red apple taste as well, as if mixed in cocoa powder and each sip seems to bring out more unique tastes and flavours.
Finish: You can really pick out that Signature Kavalan exotic fruit taste, with honey covered melons and guava. There is a slight taste of pecan and nuts that stays for a while and gets drowned out when that wine gummy sweetness jumps out. A perfectly balanced spicy sweetness that is somehow complex yet not overwhelming at all. The 59.4% is hidden in a ton of cocoa, soft spices and melon sweetness with a long finish that begs for one more sip!
Two Brewers Yukon Single Malt Release 19
$99.99
Bottled at 46% ABV, Release 19 of the Two Brewers Single Malt Whisky is a return to peat from our favourite brewer and distillery out of Whitehorse, Yukon.
About Two Brewers
"Yukon Brewing was formed by Bob Baxter and Alan Hansen in 1997, the result of a canoe trip conversation taken well beyond the campfire. After years of building a successful local craft brewery, they decided to expand into spirits and in 2009 invested in a small pot still. Hence came the birth of Two Brewers Yukon Single Malt Whisky; made in small batches, with a variety of malted and roasted grains, using different fermentation techniques and a mix of barrels. The goal is that no two releases will be the same, so that as each expression emerges, it is layered and unique."
Two Brewers Yukon Single Malt Release 20
$102.99
Limited to 1055 bottles, Release 20 of Two Brewers' Yukon Single Malt Whisky carries their Innovative label. Bottled at 40% ABV, this expression was finished in barrels that previously held maple syrup.
About Two Brewers
"Yukon Brewing was formed by Bob Baxter and Alan Hansen in 1997, the result of a canoe trip conversation taken well beyond the campfire. After years of building a successful local craft brewery, they decided to expand into spirits and in 2009 invested in a small pot still. Hence came the birth of Two Brewers Yukon Single Malt Whisky; made in small batches, with a variety of malted and roasted grains, using different fermentation techniques and a mix of barrels. The goal is that no two releases will be the same, so that as each expression emerges, it is layered and unique."