Canadian Club 43 Year
$289.99
The 3rd release in the Canadian Club Chronicles range, gasp, a 43 Year, is from the same parcel of casks as the 40, 41 and 42 year olds. Called "The Speakeasy", it is bottled at 45%.
Producer Description
"During Prohibition, when the sale of alcohol was outlawed, many bars and taverns were forced ‘underground’. This led to patrons who were planning a night out to whisper or ‘speak easy’ about these establishments. It was Canadian Club® that became the whisky of choice in exclusive bars based on its reputation for quality and authenticity. In fact, CC became the #1 smuggled whisky in the U.S. and the original ‘club whisky’ in North America. With this 3rd release, we celebrate a true original - Canadian Club – creating memorable moments for over 160 years."
Producer Tasting Note
Aroma: Toasted oak with hints of brown sugar and rich leather.
Flavour: Nutmeg spiciness and light hay notes balanced with a subtle sweetness and a touch of dried fruit.
Finish: a warm and lingering sweet oak finish.
Century Reserve Rare Beer Cask CDNWhisky
$49.99
Century Reserve is a brand produced by Highwood Distillers of High River, Alberta. This 100% Wheat Whisky was finished in casks that were previously used to mature beer from Wild Rose Brewery. 42% ABV
Shelter Point Rye KWM Cask #346
$114.99
This bottle was featured on Day 15 of our 2020 KWM Whisky Calendar.
This is our second cask of Shelter Point Rye... by which we mean Alberta Distillers 'premium' Rye, matured 5 years in Alberta, and another 6 years on Vancouver Island near the Oyster River. This is the 3rd cask of whisky bottled for us by the good folk at Shelter Point Distillery. The colour is insanely dark for 11 years of age, and the profile is rich and jammy. It may not have been given an award by a fedora wearing Englishman with a twinkle of sulphur in his eyes and a penchant for childishly sexist language, but it is dam fine whisky. Produced from a mash of 100% rye and bottled at 58.8%.
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: silky, nutty and syrupy with firm spices; quince paste and fig jam; Panda Brand Licorice; vanilla icing sugar and smoked maple syrup; maraschino cherries and candied orange; sipping old fashioneds in firm plush leather chairs while smoking Cuban cigars.
Palate: sweet thick and very toasty; starts silky building to musty old oak, barrel aged maple syrup and cola cubes; brown sugar, waxy Strawberry Twizzlers, more quince paste and fig jam; more candied orange and maraschino cherry; old fashioned licorice, amaretto and Armagnac; plush leather chairs, Cuban cigar tobacco and old fashioned cocktails.
Finish: long, coating, warming and spicy; like the after taste of an old fashioned cocktail and a Cuban cigar enjoyed in an old fashioned lounge; late spices: clove, fennel and Panda Brand licorice.
Comment: sweet, jammy and fruity with loads of soft oak tones and crisp spice; forget the bitters, ice and orange peel; just pour a couple of measures of this, tuck in and enjoy; it comes with the added bonus of no bad PR!
Forty Creek Foxheart
$47.99
This whisky from Ontario's Forty Creek takes their whisky and adds a small amount of 12-year-old Caribbean Rum (possibly Appletons since both it and Forty Creek are owned by Campari Group). The result is bottled at 40%.
On a side note: what happened to the good ol' days of Forty Creek bottling most releases at 43%? That may seem like a low bar now, but this 40% is even lower...
Alberta Premium Cask Strength Rye 2nd Rl
$68.39
Lot 40 Dark Oak 100% Rye
$58.49
This is an amped-up version of the regular Lot 40 made at the Hiram Walker Distillery in Windsor, Ontario. Lot 40 itself is one of the best 100% Rye Whiskies made in Canada. What makes it different? It is finished in virgin American oak barrels with a #4 char – which is what many American Rye and Bourbon whiskies are matured in. After this, the resulting whisky is bottled at 48%.
Canadian Club Reserve 3 Litre
$149.99
A Texas Mickey of Canadian Club Whisky
Park Exp Whisky Project #5 375ml
$38.99
*ONE PER CUSTOMER*
This bottling apparently marks the last planned batch from Park Distillery's Exploratory Whisky Project. This fifth and final edition is from a Half Cask made of New American Oak with a #3 Char. It was filled with 100% Raw Alberta Rye spirit on May 5th of 2017 and then dumped close to four years later on April 14th, 2021. Bottled at 45% and Non Chill Filtered. 375ml Bottle.
Canadian Club 44 Year
$324.99
For the 5th year in a row Canadian Club has released a 40+ year old whisky. This edition, is the 4th in the "Canadian Club Chronicles range: 'the Whisky Sixes". The whisky pays homage to the bootlegging cars which raced across the Detroit River during prohibition, and their 6 cylindar engines.
Canadian Club became the unofficial whisky of prohibition through the ingenuity and diligence of the bootleggers who smuggled CC across the Detroit River into the U.S. During the winter months bootleggers would drive across the frozen river in lighter vehicles dubbed "whisky sixes," because of their smaller sixcylinder engines. These notorious automobiles were responsible for transporting as much as 75% of the country’s liquor. The 'Whisky Sixes’ roadsters could easily outrun police cars, adding glamour and panache to Canadian Club. Savour the hallmark CC smoothness with the complex blend of sweet, crisp apple, plum and dried fruit mixed with zesty spice and chocolate. A well-rounded finish with the wood tannins for which CC is known.