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Laird of Fintry 2018 (Lot #5) Single Malt
I managed to snag a bottle of this year’s annual lottery release of Okanagan Spirits’ Laird of Fintry single malt whisky. Okanagan Spirits Craft Distillery is located in British Columbia, Canada. They...
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Mackmyra Svensk Rök
Rök means smoke in Swedish, and this Svensk Rök edition (“Swedish Smoke”) is the first smokey single malt whisky released by Mackmyra, first launched in 2013. The traditional Swedish way of smoking...
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J.P. Wiser’s Alumni Series Wendel Clark 100% Rye 11 Year Old
J.P. Wiser’s has been releasing a lot of really interesting stuff in recent years – thanks in large part to Master Blender Dr. Don Livermore. Anyone who has tried Wiser’s Dissertation, Lot 40 Cask...
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Lot 40 Cask Strength 11 Year Old (2018)
The late Fall 2018 release of the Northern Border Collection from Corby (also known as the Northern Borders Rare Collection this year) featured some returning expressions, and a few new players. I’ll...
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Hibiki Blender’s Choice
The discontinuation of the classic Hibiki 17 year old last year was a blow to fans of this classic Japanese blended whisky. But it was softened somewhat in Japan with the release of a new Japan-only...
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Kanosuke New Born 8 Month Old
Kanosuke distillery in Kagoshima, Japan, has a long tradition of making shochu – a Japanese beverage distilled from rice (or other starchy materials like sweet potatoes or buckwheat), broken down by...
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Johnnie Walker White Walker
An interesting gimmick for a Game of Thrones-marketed version of Johnnie Walker – enter the White Walkers! Fans of the series will be well familiar with the role these feared undead soldiers play in...
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Ben Nevis 10 Year Old (2019)
Ben Nevis is probably not a particularly well-known single malt among younger whisky drinkers (certainly here in North America). The distillery is currently owned by Japanese whisky-maker Nikka, and a...
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Timorous Beastie Blended Malt
Timorous Beastie is another member of the Remarkable Regional Malts series produced by Douglas Laing, an independent bottler of Scottish malt whisky. I previously reviewed the Speyside-derived...
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Bearface Triple Oak 7 Year Old
Bearface is a rather unique new Canadian whisky. I first noticed in a local LCBO early this year, due to its rather rakish bottle design (a little risque for Canadian whisky). But my interest was...
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Ohishi Sherry Cask
I always appreciate the opportunity to try something different – and Ohishi is about as different as you can get in the whisky world and still be called “whisky.” Well, in some jurisdictions at least –...
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Ichiro’s Malt & Grain World Blended Whisky
This is an example of something I expect we will see more of: blended world whiskies. Actually, this has been going on for a long time – but rarely disclosed previously. There are often significant...
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Super Nikka (aka Nikka Super Rare Old)
This blended Japanese whisky has been around since 1962, in a distinctive glass bottle clearly meant to represent a whisky still. Created to commemorate the death of Masataka Taketsuru’s beloved wife...
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J.P. Wiser’s Alumni Series Guy Lafleur 10 Year Old
It comes as no surprise to me that the best selling member of the inaugural batch of NHL Alumni Series whiskies was the Guy Lafleur bottling. Growing up in Montreal in the 1970s, “The Flower” was a...
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J.P. Wiser’s Alumni Series Lanny McDonald 9 Year Old
Last up for the inaugural 2018-2019 edition of the NHL Alumni Series whiskies from J.P. Wiser’s is Lanny McDonald – he of the great bushy red handle-bar mustache! Fans of the 1980s-era Calgary Flames...
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J.P. Wiser’s Alumni Series Darryl Sittler 10 Year Old
Following up on the inaugural 2018-2019 Edition of the J.P. Wiser’s Alumni series, a second offering was released in the spring of 2019. This 2019-2020 Edition features whiskies named after Darryl...
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J.P. Wiser’s Alumni Series Larry Robinson 6 Year Old
This is my second review of the 2019-2020 Edition of J.P. Wiser’s NHL Alumni series of whiskies. Following up on the inaugural release of the 2018-2019 Edition, a second offering was released in the...
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J.P. Wiser’s Alumni Series Overview: 2018-2019 & 2019-2020 Editions
In addition to my stand-alone reviews, I thought I would provide an overview for this NHL Alumni series, as multiple editions (each featuring multiple whiskies) are now available – with more soon to be...
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Lot 40 Cask Strength Third Edition (2019)
As always, the most highly-anticipated release of the Northern Border Collection 2019 is the cask-strength Lot no 40. The 2018 Lot 40 cask strength edition quickly sold out at the LCBO last year....
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Alberta Premium Cask Strength 100% Rye
Another sought-after limited-release Canadian whisky this year, Alberta Distillers has produced a new cask-strength 100% rye. Initially released in Alberta, it has now begun to show up (in small...
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