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Forty Creek Barrel Select
Distiller Score 83
There is a fruity aroma from the sherry casks, but it isn't overwhelming. Spices such as cinnamon, orange spice, and ginger come across along with caramel and cooked apples. The whisky is bright and spicy, and for the price, is quite the value.
Reviewed by Stephanie Moreno
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Canadian Club 100% Rye
Distiller Score 88
This is a familiar rye with textbook floral notes on the nose. Popping toasted grains swirl with oaky vanilla leading your mouth on a journey of rye spiciness and creamy caramel. Orange citrus mixed with baking spices, such as clove and hot cinnamon, hang around a long time like they’ve been charged by the Energizer Bunny. This whisky is a prodigy for cocktails but just as delicious as a sipper.
Reviewed by Blair Phillips
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Canadian Club Chairman's Select 100% Rye
Distiller Score 88
This is a familiar rye with textbook floral notes on the nose. Popping toasted grains swirl with oaky vanilla leading your mouth on a journey of rye spiciness and creamy caramel. Orange citrus mixed with baking spices, such as clove and hot cinnamon, hang around a long time like they’ve been charged by the Energizer Bunny. This whisky is a prodigy for cocktails but just as delicious as a sipper.
Reviewed by Blair Phillips
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Mars Iwai Tradition Wine Cask Finish
Distiller Score 89
The first whiff brings red fruit and lots of it. The nose then delivers honey, vanilla, and milk cherry chocolate. Rich decadence from the wine influence. The palate is just as exciting with ginger, port, and subtle spice joining the sweet, rich notes from the nose. Dried figs, milk chocolate, and port notes lead the medium finish. A delightful experience through and through.
Reviewed by George Koutsakis
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Stalk & Barrel Red Blend
Distiller Score 89
Still Waters had the same moment as the guy who discovered how good peanut butter and chocolate go together. For the distillery, it’s how good their rye and single malt go together in this blend. The nose is bright with sweet barley working together with blossoming floral rye. On the palate it’s all about those rye spices and flavor symmetry. This stylish blend wraps up with a little oak and a spray of citrus pith.
Reviewed by Blair Phillips
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J.P. Wiser's Triple Barrel Rye
Distiller Score 90
This whisky is an all-you-can-eat rye bread buffet. The all-rye nose shifts to velvety wheat and vanilla icing on the palate with rye spices still in abundance. The oily and creamy texture of the whisky makes it tough to break long enough between sips to enjoy a bracing clean finish where the rye spices get a chance to pop one last time.
Reviewed by Blair Phillips
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Alberta Premium Canadian Rye Whisky
Distiller Score 84
The nose presents with dark rye, apple skins, milk chocolate, and wood spices. The taste profile is enjoyable, but not particularly complex. It is a solid, smooth rye whisky with a nice roundness to take the edge off. Considering the price, you'd do well to pick up a bottle if for nothing else but making yourself a damn fine Manhattan cocktail.
Reviewed by Stephanie Moreno
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Crown Royal Peach Flavored Whisky
Distiller Score 77
The aroma of this flavored whisky is filled with ripe peaches including the skins. Some barrel spices make it through, but the nose is all about the peach. The whisky is not entirely overwhelmed on the palate, but it's close. There's a little heat from the proof and the finish is more sweet-bitter than bittersweet. Make sure to adjust for sweetness in mixed drinks. Try adding to an Arnold Palmer on a sunny afternoon.
Reviewed by Stephanie Moreno
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Legacy Blended Canadian Whisky
Distiller Score 83
Creamy vanilla and maple-sweetened coffee underline the Legacy experience. Ripe orchard cherries and candy corn climb out of the creaminess. But on the palate, a welcome speck of spice dries off the nose’s fruity vanilla sweetness. This blended whisky is rich with corn that attacks the side of the mouth with a tingling finish. All accented and controlled by that O’Canada signature citrus pith.
Reviewed by Blair Phillips
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Tangle Ridge
Distiller Score 83
Sweet maple covered pecans and dark rye bread come to the forefront upon nosing. As you taste, the sweetness overtakes you at first, but the whisky catches up to make it less unctuous and rummy. The alcohol seems to be a bit out of balance in the glass. Overall, however, the whisky would be fine with a large chunk of ice in your glass.
Reviewed by Stephanie Moreno
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Ninety 5 Year Whisky
Distiller Score 87
What a clean nose where the younger alcohol notes have been put on a leash in favor of the oak spice’s gentler side. This allows the caramel, vanilla and saw dust characters to effortlessly blend into the mix. In the mouth, the spices are unleashed with a fresh juiciness where the corn whisky fires off focused baking spices such as cinnamon. This whisky hits all the right notes leading up to a finale of citrus fruits with all the previous characteristics coming out for a curtain call.
Reviewed by Blair Phillips
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Canadian Club Classic 12 Year
Distiller Score 74
Walnuts and vanilla come about from the onset. Sweet from the moment it hits your tongue, there is also a slight char note .The finish is reminiscent of drinking the last swig of a warm, overly sweet Old Fashioned cocktail.
Reviewed by Stephanie Moreno