World Whisky reviews

Canadian Club is an interesting label. The brand is owned by Beam Suntory, which also owns Alberta Premium (ADL), but most of their whisky is made at the Hiram Walker distillery in Windsor, Ontario. Or…

This is a blended Canadian whisky. Signal Hill sources primarily corn whisky and some barley whisky from an Ontario distiller, aged between 3 to 5 years. The spirits have been aged in three different…

The Glynnevan Double Barrelled Canadian Rye Whisky has been available in Ontario selected LCBO locations since August 2017, price C$48.75. When using the colour guide from my One More Dram Whisky…

The newest expression from the Indian John Distilleries is the Paul John Kanya, a 7 year old malt of which only 1500 bottles were released. Kanya is the Indian version of Virgo from the Zodiac. It is…

It’s a public secret that I have a weak spot for new make. Timon – former employee of The Nectar, Belgian importer of Paul John – made me very happy when he offered me a sample of new make from the John…

As the name suggest, this Indian malt was finished on port casks, albeit after an initial maturation on both refill bourbon casks and new American oak. In fact, after the finish on port pipes, it was…

Amrut created this Rye with European rye and left the spirit to mature for 5 years on American oak. Only 1000 bottles at 50% were released.The nose is candy-like sweet with lots of tropical fruit. Think…

Kavalan, from Taiwan, has quite a few lovely single casks bottlings in their Solist range. This is one of those: the Solis Vinho Barrique – a wine cask. I quite like the bourbon and sherry versions, but…

This new whisky is from a Newfoundland-based company which I just found out specializes in rum (go figure). A mixture of double-distilled corn and pot still barley malt, aged in refill, ex-bourbon, and…

Gruvguld is Swedish for ‘gold from the mine’, which is of course a reference to the Bodas mine in which Mackmyra matures here whisky – at a depth of 50 meters, by the way. It is a marriage of 3 types of…