Stillhead Bartender's Rye Whisky
$69.99
From Vancouver Island's Stillhead Distillery, which is making some of the best rye whisky in Canada! Bottled at 46%, the Bartender's Rye is made from 100% BC-grown Rye grain and matured in American oak casks.
Nikka Coffey Malt 45%
$94.99
Note: Nikka's own website notes that this bottle does not meet the criteria to be called a Japanese Whisky. The good news is that might mean it also contains Ben Nevis Single Malt, as the Ben Nevis Distillery is also owned by Nikka.
It is unusual to see single malt whisky distilled in a column (AKA continuous or Coffey) still, but here you have it and the result is superb. Formerly exclusive to KWM in Alberta, this is one hell of an interesting dram, soft, layered and very complex.
The sugar yield of malted barley compared with corn and wheat is not favourable, especially when you take the cost of malting and corn subsidies into account. So the Nikka Whisky Co. must have some other designs than simply creating bulk whisky by running barley through their Coffey stills.
G&M CC Bladnoch 1988 KWM Cask #2107
$1,399.99
This bottle was featured on Day 23 of our 2023 KWM UBER Whisky Calendar. You can read the post on it here.
Once again, our friends at Gordon & MacPhail have outdone themselves by offering us the opportunity to bottle this gorgeous cask. At 33 years of age, this 1988 vintage Bladnoch is the oldest KWM exclusive cask we have had the privilege of bottling since our Berry's 40-Year Blend more than 5 years ago. Filled into a Refill Sherry Hogshead on August 17, 1988, there were only 53 bottles left in the cask when it was bottled on the 21st of July, 2022 at 54.1%. A sister cask to this whisky, filled on the same day, is currently scoring 89.43pts on Whiskybase. I expect ours is even better!
This is another one of those KWM casks, where prior to sampling the whisky, Andrew said there was no way we were going to buy a full cask at that price. But the whisky is stunning, and when it was sampled by the KWM whisky team we knew we had to have it. It didn't hurt that the cask had only 53 bottles of liquid left in it at the time of bottling... those are some greedy angels! 90 Points from Whiskyfun.com
SMWS 73.164 THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOVES
$164.99
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOVES
This 12 year old Speysider was matured in a 2nd fill ex-bourbon barrel and has an abv of 56.6%.
Flavour profile: Spicy & dry
Distilled on: 19 April 2011
Outturn: 203 bottles
SMWS 138.19 A RIVER OF COMPLEXITY
$134.31
A RIVER OF COMPLEXITY
This 4 year old from Taiwan was aged in a 1st fill ex-bourbon barrel and has an abv of 57.1%.
Flavour profile: Peated
Distilled on: 23 March 2018
Outturn: 210 bottles
Daftmill 2010 Winter Batch Release
$189.99
This 2010 vintage Daftmill was bottled at 46% in the Winter of 2023, after maturing 12 years in ex-Bourbon Barrels. 87.68pts Whiskybase Exclusive to KWM in Canada.
Producer Description
"The barley variety Publican was grown in the 43ac field and was harvested by John and Sandy on the 28th & 29th August 2009. It was then dried and stored on the farm to be malted in Alloa during the summer of 2010. The whisky that went into this bottling came from twenty-five first fill ex bourbon barrels, which were filled in November and December 2010. Then stored in our dunnage warehouse until bottling in 2023."
SMWS 78.83 HEATHERY AND LEATHERY
$164.99
HEATHERY AND LEATHERY
This 11 year old from the Highlands spent 8 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead before transfer to a 1st fill HTMC hogshead, and the abv is 57.6%.
Flavour profile: Spicy & sweet
Distilled on: 22 November 2012
Outturn: 265 bottles
SMWS 39.292 MELLOW YELLOW
$169.99
MELLOW YELLOW
This 12 year old Speysider was matured in a 1st fill ex-bourbon barrel and has an abv of 61.6%.
Flavour profile: Juicy, oak & vanilla
Distilled on: 5 December 2011
Outturn: 188 bottles
SMWS 5.125 IF I WERE A LADY AND YOU WERE
$284.99
IF I WERE A LADY AND YOU WERE A CARPENTER
This 20 year old Lowlander was matured in a 1st fill ex-bourbon barrel and has an abv of 56.1%.
Flavour profile: Juicy, oak & vanilla
Distilled on: 27 January 2003
Outturn: 168 bottles