Wild Life Rye Whisky 750ml
$73.79
Bottled at 45.9%, This whisky from Wild Life is made with 88% Rye and 12% Malted Barley and matured for at least 3.5 years.
- Age: Minimum 3.5 years
- Mash Bill: 88% Rye, 12% Barley
- Barrel Profile: 53 Gallon - White American Oak
- Distillation Method: 500L Alembic Copper Pot Still
Producer Description
"Rye is the quintessential Canadian Whisky grain. This flavour forward grain is often hidden and underrepresented in the big brand rye whiskies on the market. Wild Life Rye Whisky on the other hand, does not shy away from flavour. This spirit shows wonderful notes of nutmeg, fig, green grass and spice notes. This is Alberta Craft Whisky at its finest, and we are pleased to share it with you!"
True Wild Roper's Hold 20 Year Whisky
$148.49
Batch 1 of Roper's Hold 20-Year-Old has been released by Bryce Parsons and True Wild Distillery. For this batch, the whisky was originally produced at one of the larger distilleries in Southern Alberta. The grain makeup is 90%+ Rye and the rest malted barley - something that the mystery distillery is not typically known for. The whisky has been finished in wine casks sourced from the Okanagan Valley.
Bottled at 47% ABV.
Producer Description
"Our newest (or should we say oldest?) edition of our beloved Roper’s Hold Whisky has been freshly bottled and is ready for you! This beautiful 20 Year Aged Canadian Rye Whisky was originally distilled right here in Alberta, but was later found in New York, and our team was committed to bringing this one-of-a-kind whisky back home. Once these forgotten barrels returned home to Canada, we finished them in beautiful Okanagan wine and custom American oak barrels to give the whisky its distinct colour and flavour profile."
Two Rivers Bourbon Style Port Cask Finis
$107.99
From Calgary's Two Rivers Distillery comes this Bourbon Style Whiskey finished in ex-Port casks. Bottled at a solid 60% ABV. Harmony loves it!
Producer Description
"Two Rivers Distillery Bourbon Style Whisky. Made to honour our neighbours in the south using Albertan corn, rye, and barley. Double batch distilled and aged in freshly-charred American barrels selected by our Master Distiller. Brewed, distilled and aged at Two Rivers Distillery, Calgary, Alberta"
Diony Prarie Trio Canadian Whisky
$107.99
From Diony Distillery of Red Deer, Alberta.
48.8% ABV.
Producer Description
"Mashbill: Malted rye (67%), malted barley and oat
Age: 40 months
Cask: Recharred #2 French oak barrel, Recharred #3 French oak barrel"
Liquid Treasures 2011 Macduff 12 Year
$152.99
This Macduff comes from indie bottler Liquid Treasures. It was distilled in 2011 and matured in an ex-Bourbon Barrel before being bottled at 12 years old and a strength of 56.9% ABV. 85.58pts Whiskybase
Macduff Distillery was founded only around 60 years ago back in 1960 and resides near the mouth of the River Deveron near where it empties into the North Sea. That puts it in the Highlands, just north and east of Speyside. It's nearest distillery neighbours include Glenglassaugh Distillery which is about a 20-minute drive to the west along the A98 as well as Knockdhu Distillery which is about a 25-minute drive to the south and west if you start on the A98 and then connect to the A95.
Decadent Drams Blended Grain 52 Year
$598.49
This 1972 vintage single grain was bottled from a Refill ex-Bourbon Barrel at 50.8% after 52 years. 89.04pts Whiskybase
Producer Description
"This Decadent Drams bottling is a 1972, 52 year old single refill barrel of blended grain whisky. No, we don't have a scooby which grain distillates went into this potion back in 1972. All we know is that it tastes old, mechanical, medicinal, sweet, fruity and luscious. It's like drinking a coconut full of rum inside the mind of a sentient pineapple that's learned how to operate heavy machinery and has since unionised with the other tropical fruits and is now causing headaches for the Labour government."
Boutique-y Dumbarton 33 Year
$215.99
This 33 year old single grain from the closed Dumbarton distillery, bottled from a Refill Hogshead orginally filled in 1992 at 45.8%.
About the Label
"It’s another of our shockingly bad puns and plays on the extreme heaviness of the grains!
There’s a series of strong cliches carrying and moving cartoonishly heavy bags of grain (two circus strong-men, a crane being used to lift a single bag, and an ornate Rajasthani elephant). Hey, that elephant would look cool front & centre on the label, dontcha think, Em?"
Bushmills 16 Year
$94.49
Two whiskeys are matured for 16 years‚ one in a bourbon barrel and the other in sherry‚ and then they are married together in a sweet port infused cask. It’s a marriage made in heaven! Expect a warm Port-like sweetness on the back of the throat, that drifts up to form an almond marzipan fusion with hints of honey and praline. The finish is deep and jammy, with hints of dark chocolate.
Producer Description: "Our Bushmills 16 Year Old is a marriage of single malts matured for at least 16 years in hand-selected Oloroso sherry butts and bourbon barrels, then finished in port pipes for up to a year. This triple casking transforms the colour to a beautiful ruby red and adds layers of juicy sun-ripened dark fruit and berries, complex almond nuttiness and a treacly vanilla spice."
Redbreast 15 Year Irish Whiskey
$148.49
The Redbreast 15 year Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey is aged in ex-Bourbon Casks and ex-Oloroso Sherry Casks and bottled at 46% ABV.
What is Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey you ask? It is whiskey made using a combination of malted and unmalted barley. Why do this you ask? Why, to dodge unfair taxation, of course! The Malt Tax came into being in Ireland for a short time starting in 1785, enforced by the (insert expletive said in your best Irish accent here) English. The Irish, being Irish, decided that they didn't need to use malted barley for the entirety of the mash used to distill whiskey and started adding portions of unmalted barley. Necessity being the mother of invention, this eventually became a legitimate style of whiskey-making that is now not just celebrated but codified into law in Ireland with the Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey classification.