Glen Breton reviews

Warning – Repetition Alert - Because people may read this independently from my last review, some of the information in the pre-amble is copied from it and pasted for completeness (with some changes)…

Back in 2009 (I think) the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Glenora could continue using the name Glen Breton. Apparently it was a 9 year court battle waged by the SWA, which was concerned that the…

This whisky is made at the Glenora distillery in Nova Scotia, in eastern Canada. It was the first Canadian single malt, but since then more malt whiskies have been produced and bottled by craft distil…

We've all had Canadian Club growing up, I presume, slumming it in a bar some where. It's not a bad drink with Coke but then what is? Anyway, it's not Canadian Club I want to talk but it's cousin Glen…

A sweet, honeyed nose with some fruit, maybe apple/banana/peach. Alcohol is very much present. Not much development over 15 minutes.On the tongue there is much more wood than the nose would have indic…

Did you know that Nova Scotia's Glenora Distillery is North America's first malt whisky distillery? Betcha didn't! Production began in June 1990......then stopped weeks later due to lack of funds. Oops…

This is a fitting finale to my "Happy Canada Day" series, an unusual Canadian whisky that is impossible to find in my home province of Ontario. This bottling was produced as a celebration of a nine year…

My inaugural review, so bear with me.I am not typically a flag-waiving patriot, nor am I otherwise a fan of Canadian whisky, but something excited me about the prospect of a home grown single malt.…

This second whisky from Glen Breton elicited from me even more excitement than the first. This is a 17 year old cask strength whisky that is finished for 4 months in Ortega Ice Wine barrels from Jost…

Glen Breton Ice 17 is unusual in many respects: it is a cask-strength Canadian whisky finished in icewine barrels, so you can expect it to have little in common with any other Canadian whiskies. Glen…