Bar Cart: Glenfiddich 14 Year Old Bourbon Barrel Reserve
A scotch that pays homage to America.
Glenfiddich’s 14 Year Old Bourbon Barrel Reserve is aged for 14 years in American ex-bourbon casks before being finished in new American oak casks.
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Bar Cart: The Balvenie DoubleWood 12
A summer scotch for patio and poolside.
The Balvenie DoubleWood 12 has long been considered an essential scotch thanks to its sophisticated flavour profile that far outpaces its price, and it should be considered your essential summer scotch too.
Winning Whiskies from Vancouver Island
Macaloney’s Island Whisky.
Macaloney’s Island Distillery, in Saanich on Vancouver Island, has been cleaning up in international whisky competitions.
Bar Cart: The Macallan Harmony Collection Inspired by Intense Arabica
The Macallan explores coffee’s compatibility with whisky.
The second instalment in The Macallan’s Harmony Collection, Inspired by Intense Arabica explores coffee’s potential as both a flavour inspiration and packaging solution.
Bar Cart: J.P. Wiser’s 13-Year-Old Hickory
An idiosyncratic new release from Canada’s mad scientist of whisky.
As it happens, some creative minds such as J.P. Wiser’s master distiller Dr. Don Livermore are experimenting with aging spirits, whisky specifically, in all manner of woods with great success.
Bar Cart: Green Spot Quails’ Gate
An international whiskey collaboration takes flight.
Irish Distillers, under its sub-brand Spot Whiskeys, is reforging Ireland’s connection with the Wine Geese via a series of collaborative whiskeys. They recently turned to Canada’s Okanagan Valley, partnering with Quails’ Gate Winery, operated by the Stewart family, who have been farming in the region since Richard Stewart Sr. arrived from the Emerald Isle in 1908.
Bar Cart: Suntory Ao Whisky
A world in a whisky.
Ao (pronounced “ow”), the name of Suntory’s newest whisky, means “blue” in Japanese. In the case of this bottle of liquid gold, it refers to the oceans that connect the locations where parent company Beam Suntory’s whisky is made.
A Unicorn Whisky You Can Actually Find
How Fettercairn makes unicorn whiskies for everyone.
Fettercairn, the newest independent brand from Scotland’s Whyte & Mackay, makes “unicorn” whiskies. Its various expressions—packaged in bottles emblazoned with a unicorn from the crest of founder Sir Alexander Ramsay’s clan—each provide an immediately distinguishable flavour profile that showcases the company’s approach.
Your New Favourite Whisky Is Italian
Poli Distillerie’s Segretario di Stato is a bold step forward for whisky.
Italian whisky isn’t beholden to industry conventions. The result is a whisky that is hard to define but easy to love, and one that feels like a bold step forward for whisky as a category.
