This is what the Bruichladdich website describes this bottling as. What does that mean? For that matter, what do any of the overtly-descriptive tasting notes mean on their site, anyway? I've mentioned…

And we come to our final Canadian whisky of the day. A 24 year old distilled from 100% Indian corn, bottled by Cadenhead's in February 2014. This was matured in a bourbon barrel, and like all Cadenhead's…

Crown Royal Monarch is a bottling celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the expression. 75 years ago (sorry, 76 years ago since this came out last year), Sam Bronfman created this blended Canadian whisky…

I have been planning on doing an epic Canadian whisky tasting for Canada Day for months - however, this week I was able to take some time away and go to Haliburton for a vacation, and just got back…

Still Waters Distillery is just outside of Toronto and produces Ontario's first single malt. Barry Stein and Barry Bernstein founded the distillery in March 2009, creating Ontario's first micro-distil…

Let's segue from an unaged wheat spirit to a 12 year old wheat whisky. This comes from Sonoma CA based 35 Maple Street, which imports Canadian whisky, bottles it and sells it back to us (grrrr). This is…

Prince Edward County, in Ontario, is a beautiful area with quaint B&Bs and terrific wineries - it makes for a fantastic long weekend. Spirit your significant other away here and they will love you for…

Still Waters has also bottled some cask-strength ryes - 100% Ontario rye, again non-coloured and non-chill-filtered. This one matured for three years in Cask No. 23, yielding 198 bottles. I believe you…

I had a fantastic Father's Day weekend over the last two days - I took my daughter Maggie to Niagara Falls where we ate tons of food, went to all sorts of cheesy attractions and spent six hours at a…

This straight rye contains no corn whatsoever - it's a large percentage of rye with a small amount of malted barley.The colour is a deep, dark orange with coppery highlights. Somewhat floral on the nose…