Blackadder Raw Cask Invergordon 88 51.5%
$139.99
This 30 year old bottling of Invergordon Single Grain Scotch was distilled in Calgary's Olympic year, way back in 1988. From a refill sherry cask, it was bottled at a cask strength of 51.5% ABV.
Scotch Malt Whisky Society G7.16
$298.99
ELIXIR OF EUPHORIA
This 28 year old single grain whisky from the Lowlands is 55.1%; after 26 years in a bourbon barrel it was moved into a new oak barrel for the remainder of its maturation.
Flavour profile: Deep, rich & dried fruits.
Outturn: 128 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "What a nose! Cola cubes, candy corns, rumtopf and apricot flan with shisha pipes, pomegranate molasses and polished wood - it’s aromatherapy in a glass! The palate is a chewy, juicy elixir of euphoria – pineapple, toffee apples, Old English Spangles, grenadine and blackcurrant-soaked oak – then a finishing flicker of mulled wine and wood spice.
The reduced nose is a delightful chameleon of glazed plums, honey, jelly beans, golden syrup on buttered toast and Amarena cherries. The palate now – wickedly seductive and sweet – Peshawari naan and dessert wine. After 26 years in a bourbon barrel we moved this into new oak."
Compass Box Hedonism Felicitas
$214.99
Limit 1 Per Customer!
One of the 20th Aniversary releases Compass Box is putting out in 2020. The name Felicitas is a reflexion of the happy state in which the Compass Box team find themselves, marking this significant milestone. This Blended Grain Scotch Whisky is built around a parcel of Port Dundas from 2001 which was loaded with vanilla and orchard fruits. It was blended with North British whisky distilled in the 1990s. Bottled at 53%.
Producer Tasting Note: "Creamy coconut intertwines with notes of caramel, vanilla and almond. Apple and greengage add a delicious weight with a soft finish packed with creamy toffee."
Producer Description
"Hedonism Felicitas pays tribute to the whisky that launched our business 20 years ago. ‘Felicitas’, meaning a particularly productive or happy state, seemed apt when reflecting on such a milestone. This latest special Limited Edition is intended to convey the good fortune and happiness we feel, having met and worked with so many remarkable people during our first two decades. As a celebration of this important anniversary, this whisky is for them.
'The largest single component was distilled in 2001 at the Port Dundas Distillery and is full of wood spice, toffee and honey. A third of the recipe was made in the 1980s at the Strathclyde Distillery, providing vanilla cream and orchard fruit notes. Barrels filled with spirit from the North British Distillery in the 1990s complete the recipe and lend passion fruit and cardamom notes. Hedonism Felicitas is at once vibrant and stately: the higher bottling strength concentrates its luscious depths without any loss of the disarming gentleness for which aged grain whisky is rightly praised."
Dumangin Whisky Cambus 26 Year Grain
$319.99
Our friend Gilles Dumangin, a 4th generation Champagne producer near Reims, also produces a fortified wine called Ratafia Champenois. He has secured whiskies from distilleries all over the world, which he has finished in his own Ratafia casks. They are exclusive to KWM in Canada, with just 24 bottles of each coming in to the market. This single grain Scotch whisky from the Cambus Distillery was distilled in 1993. It was bottled at 49.9% after 26 years. It was finished 9 Months in Ratafia Champenois Casks.
Signatory Cameronbridge 1984 54%
$327.99
This ain't your average aged out soccer player's bottle of Haig Club!
This 35 year old Cameronbridge Single Grain Scotch was bottled by Signatory Vintage. It was distilled in 1984 then aged away in a hogshead, luckily dodging Haig Clubification. Bottled at a cask strength of 54%.
Cadenhead Original Strathclyde 31 Year
$166.39
This 31 year old Single Grain bottled for the new Cadenhead Original line comes from the closed and demolished Strathclyde Distillery. It was matured in ex-Bourbon casks and bottled at 46%.
The Single Cask Strathclyde 26 Year
$209.99
The Single Cask is one of the more recent independent bottlers to hit our shelves. This 26 Year Old Strathclyde was distlled on August 17th, 1993 and matured for 26 years in an ex-Bourbon Barrel before being bottled at 55.3%. 191 bottles total, with only a fraction of that coming to Alberta.
Archives Cameronbridge 1992
$249.99
Matured in a "very active Hogshead", this 27 year old Cameronbridge single grain Scotch whisky has been bottled at 53.4%. 86.88pts Whisky Base. Bottled for the "Fishes of Samoa" range, the label shows a "Blue & Yellow Grouper ", drawn by J.W. Bennett over 150 years ago and published in the "Fishes of Ceylon." Only 6 bottles are coming to KWM.
Producer Description
"Matured in a very active hogshead for 27 years. This grain whisky has a deep, dark flavor to appeal to grain- and malt whisky fans worldwide."
Scotch Malt Whisky Society G3.4
$199.99
PRIDE OF BENGAL
This 27 year old single grain whisky is from a closed Lowlands distillery and comes in at 57.5% after maturing in a refill hogshead.
Flavour profile: Spicy & sweet.
Outturn: 219 bottles.
Panel's tasting note: "Once described as ‘the model distillery of Europe’, this large operation in Edinburgh closed in 1988. The only known bottling by its owner was in 1986, for the Commonwealth Games. This example is exotic: quite prickly on the nose, with scents of vodka and apple juice, warm naan bread (with cumin and caraway seeds), roast garam masala, tinned pears and desiccated coconut,
To taste it is sweet and salty, and reminded some of us of lime pickle. The curry theme continued with water: sweet onion relish, mango chutney, coriander seeds against a mild curry background. The taste is now soft and herbal, after a sweet start, with a short finish."