Glendronach 18 Year
$224.99
"The Allardice" bottling is named for the distillery's founder, James Allardice who opened Glendronach in 1826. This bottling is from 100% Oloroso Sherry casks and is "rich, dark and seductive." Distillery tasting note: Appearance: Bright deep gold with a tawny centre. Nose: Sweet aromatics of fudge and muscovado sugar. Fruit compote and glacier morello cherries provide added complexity. Palate: Rich dark and seductive. Remarkable flavours of stewed fruits and all-spice marry together with classical aged Oloroso and toasted walnut bread and chocolate orange.
Glendronach 15 Year
$98.99
This benchmark100% Oloroso sherry matured bottling of Glendronach 15Yr is reputed one of our best selling whiskies. Bottled at 46% without colouring or chill-filtering!
Andrew's Tasting Note
Nose: Mom's mincemeat pie, treacle sauce and sticky toffee pudding; the spices slowly emerge with loads of dark fruits: raisins, dates, figs and cooked orange peels.
Palate: big rich and spicy, more dark fruits (raisins dates and figs) and spices (cinnamon to clove); unsweetened bakers chocolate and a leather tobacco pouch; underneath it all some honey and malt.
Finish: long, fruity and coating with soft leather, tobacco and spices.
Comment: the price has been creeping up on this over the last few years, but the quality and value is still here!
Distiller's Tasting Note
Nose: Incredible concentration of aromas. Treacle toffee and chocolate orange.
Palate: A very dynamic and full bodied dram for its age. Chewy with coffee chocolate and treacle scones.
Conclusions: A veritable feast to enliven the senses.
Ardbeg Lord of the Isles
$314.99
The wonderful thing about old Ardbegs is how they mellow with time and the Lord of the Isles is no exception. This 25 year old Ardbeg is named in honour of the Feudal Viking/Scots who ruled the west coast of Scotland independent of England, Scotland and Denmark in the Middle Ages. This is classic old Ardbeg with hints of Christmas cake where the soft peat oils melt on your tongue.
Macallan Fine Oak 25 Year
$401.39
SOLD OUT. Most age stated Macallan are no longer available in Alberta and Canada. They have been replaced with Macallan Gold, Amber, Sienna, Ruby and Rare Cask as well as a few more limited releases. Please contact us if you have any questions regarding this.
The Fine Oak range departs from the Sherry Oak range in that it uses both European & American oak sherry casks. The result is a softer more delicate style of Macallan with more vanilla & floral tones. Distillers Tasting Note: NOSE: Rich and robust, with a hint of peach, blood orange and wood spice. PALATE: Intense, coconut and vanilla, with a hint of sultana, lemon and peat. FINISH: Lingering, with a hint of sherry, orange and spice.
Laphroaig 25 Year
$494.99
Jim Murray's Tasting Note: "Taste: the grapes ensure the peat is met by a salavating palate; particularily impressive is the way the sweet peat slowly finds its footing and spreads beautifully; Finish: no shortage of cocoa, a kind of peaty fruit and nut chocolate bar; Balance: ...its development is first class. This one's all about effect-and it works, a treat!"
OMC Probably Speyside's Finest 41Year
$248.39
Nose: spicy-sweet, cedar and mahogany (you can tell this whisky is older, but not over the hill), dark fruits, marzipan and a light nuttiness. Palate: the palate surges with spicy, caramelized fruit and toasted oak, there is a creamy undertone but it plays second fiddle to the dark chocolates and fruit. Finish: long with sweet dark fruits, dry with toasted oak. Exclusive to Kensington Wine Market!
Octomore 2 140 PPM
$131.39
Aged 5 years the whisky is sure to pack a punch, both from the high alcohol content, 62.5%, and the phenolic level (peat and smoke), 140ppm. Only 15,000 bottles released worldwide, with very few having come in to Canada. KWM has acquired only 30 bottles. Palate: very smoky and herbaceous; there is smoke a plenty and lots of soft oils, firm peat, notes of fresh mint and wet grass, the vanilla is fleeting and sweet.
Macallan 18 Year
$157.49
There have been some silent changes at Macallan over the last few years--they no longer use Golden Promise barley, and they've installed wooden washbacks in their new production facility--but their commitment to good quality oak has been unwavering. The sherry oak line is matured in only European oak sherry casks which give the whisky its classic sweet, smooth, spicy and dark character.
Kilchoman Inaugural Release
$80.99
Kilchoman is an Islay Distillery that opened in 2005. At the time of construction it was the first new distillery on Islay in over 120 years. It is a farm scale distillery with a production level equivalent to Edradour, Scotland's smallest distillery. The distillery malts some of its own barley on site, and grows a proportion of it on its own estate. Kilchoman is a distillery to watch!