Mars Shinshu Iwai Whisky
$59.99
This new to Alberta Japanese whisky is allegedly a blend consisting of 75% grain and 25% malt whisky. Hoping to sample it soon.
From the Producer: "Kiichiro Iwai, the name sake for this Mars Whisky, was a silent pioneer of Japan whisky. This whisky is inspired by great whiskies of America. A majority of corn balanced with light malt aged in ex bourbon barrels. Ideal for daily sipping, in a mint julep or an old fashioned."
Producer Tasting Note: "Sweet with fruit flavors like pear, quince and hints of red fruits and vanilla."
About Mars Distillery: "Situated between the north and south Japanese alps, Mars Shinshu is Japan’s highest whisky distillery, at nearly 800 meters. The Hombo family have been distilling for more than a century and they added whisky to their repertoire in 1949 in Kagoshima. That was the southernmost whisky made in Japan until 1984, when all whisky production was moved to the current location in Nagano."
Schaefer Graacher Domprobst Spatlese
$104.99
There’s a reason these wines are so beloved. Part of it is that they’re so scarce; the estate is all of 4.2 hectares with no desire to expand. Part of it is the wines themselves; they’re crazy delicious and border on perfection from vintage to vintage. They capture the very essence of Mosel riesling in a way very few can. Since 2015, Christoph Schaefer and his wife Andrea have run this storied family winery in Graach. Their winemaking philosophy is not much different than that of Christoph’s father or grandfather. The focus is not on numbers or analytics, but on how the grapes taste. From harvesting each plot to the fermentations with natural yeast, all the way through bottling, everything is done by taste and feel.
Zuidam Dutch Courage Dry Gin
$52.99
Zuidam / Millstone's London Dry style Gin. Made of juniper, coriander, orange peel, vanilla, licorice, and cardamom.
Zuidam Dutch Courage Old Tom Gin
$60.99
Zuidam / Millstone's Old Tom Gin is comprised of juniper, sweet orange, fresh whole lemons, coriander, angelica, licorice, whole vanilla beans, elderflower and iris root. It is aged and mellowed for a time in American oak barrels.
Carmen Gran Reserva Carignan
$27.99
Carmen was founded in Chile in 1958 by one Christian Lanz, who named the winery after his beloved wife. Flash forward 150 years, and the winery is still making top-notch wines, such as this rather unusual offering made from Carignan grapes. Bold and intense, it will pair beautifully with beef.
OMC 25th Annv Miltonduff 13 Year
$164.99
Bottled at 50% and 13 years of age from a Canasta Cream Sherry Cask. This whisky was bottled as a part of the 25th Anniversary Range for Old Malt Cask.
About the Old Malt Cask 25th Anniversary Range
“The flagship Old Malt Cask series was launched in 1998 and quickly became known amongst connoisseurs as an umbrella for whiskies of the highest quality. Twenty five years later we continue to offer the finest casks from our family cellars under the Old Malt Cask brand, still bottled at 50% alcohol and of course without artificial colouring or chill-filtration. To celebrate a quarter of a century of Old Malt Cask single malts we have selected twenty five expressions to be bottled in the brand’s original, iconic, green and gold presentation. These Twenty Fifth Anniversary releases are drawn from across Scotland’s signature whisky producing regions and reflect the varied selection of Malts which have appeared under the Old Malt Cask banner. As ever with the Old Malt Cask range we offer them to you with confidence and pride.”
Baileys Original 1.14L
$49.99
Bailey's Irish Cream in a 1.14 Litre format.
Attilio Ghisolfi Langhe Nebbiolo
$39.99
The end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s were years of profound changes for the Barolo region, and the wines started their ascent as critical darlings capable of long-term aging. The beauty of the region and the dynamic food scene led to a boom in gastro and wine tourism as well. Often this transformation has coincided with the entry of new generations into the winery The turning point for the Attilio Ghisolfi winery was 1988. Until then the company had a mixed economy, based on the production of fruit and wine grapes. With 2020 came a breath of fresh air, new ideas and new goals. Since then their wines have evolved, employing natural wine practices which means minimal intervention winemaking, low amounts of sulphur, wild yeasts and no fining or filtration. The winery itself is run on solar panels and concerns for the environment are always at the forefront.
J Baumer Rhein Riesling
$21.99
Floral, apple, honey and melon aromas give this wine a very pleasant nose. The palate is slightly sweet, offering ripe apple, peach, melon and mango flavours with good acidity and a pleasant mouthfeel. It finishes with lingering ripe peach and apple flavours. It’s pure deliciousness.
The Joachim Bäumer (J.Bäumer) wine brand was born in the Rheingau in the 1950’s and acquired by the Ress family in 1957 as an extension of their proprietary Rheingau holdings. The J.Bäumer wines today are produced locally under contract and with direct oversight by the award-winning winemaking team at Balthasar Ress.
It is said that you can taste the land where the grapes are grown in wine, and never is this truer than in the wines of Germany's Rhine River valley. The soil in the area is rocky and the weather tends to be fairly temperate. These conditions of soil and temperature give the region's wine its characteristic mineral notes, as well as providing the acidity that balances out the flavours of the wines.
Rheinhessen lies in a valley of rolling hills, bordered on the west by the Nahe River and on the north and east by the Rhine. This 20 by 30-mile area between the winegrowing communities of Worms, Alzey, Mainz and Bingen is the largest of the German winegrowing regions and its production is second only to that of the Pfalz. Rheinhessen's climate is relatively mild. The region receives about 20 inches of rain per year, and temperatures are moderate.