How do you compete when someone’s willing to drop serious coin on five golden rings? You don’t. We suggest you reconsider running up your credit card, and sit back and enjoy a cocktail while you gift wrap one of these fine Canadian cocktail kits instead.
Read MoreHiram Walker’s attentive doctor still makes house calls on his ageing whisky. And from those visits comes an exceptional new Lot No. 40 called Dark Oak. He has finished the standard Lot No. 40 in new American Oak Char #4 barrels.
Read MoreLooking across the river from Windsor’s Hiram Walker Distillery, Detroit looks like a city where Batman might feel at home. Ornate skyscrapers line up against a landscape of 1920’s Art Deco buildings with gothic upper-story sculptural setbacks. It’s not Gotham, so, during American Prohibition, there were no actual Batman spottings here.
Read MoreNear the Windsor, Ontario banks of Pike Creek rows of squat buildings have been dusted with a black patina nicknamed “distillery shadow.” From the outside, they look like ordinary large concrete warehouses, but inside, sit luxury resorts for thousands of ageing whisky barrels.
Read MoreBefore they head out to pasture, old whisky makers are known to tuck a few gems away for their successors to discover. So, rather than joining other pensioners at the early bird special, 85-year-old Canadian whisky legend John Philip Wiser would more likely be found at his Prescott Ontario distillery until he died on April 30, 1911.
Read MoreDr Don Livermore’s finesse as a blender is on full display in Pike Creek’s 2019 Corby Craft Rare Range Series entry. This time, the doctor gave his 21-year-old whisky bed rest in Spanish oloroso sherry casks.
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