Gooderham & Worts Four Grain Canadian Whisky

Smooth, sweet and well balanced with caramel/toffee, oak, and rye spice notes. Similar to Wiser's Legacy but smoother, more toffee/corn sweetness. It’s only held back a bit by it’s slightly dry bitter finish. It’s still my pick for the best readily available Canadian Whisky. $50 in Ontario.

Almost absurdly flavorful. Definite neat, must get. Vancouver trip 2016

An interesting whisky. Its Canadian heritage is recognizable (and I am, frankly, no fan of most Canadian whiskies), but there's a complexity and delicacy here that's pretty likeable. Smell is a nice cedar wood, some rye spice, creamed corn, dill pickle, an interesting medicinal cherry syrup. Sharpie marker or some paint thinner. Vanilla. Taste is sweet and spice. A nice floral, with loads of rye, baking spices and brining spices (clove, caraway, dill, pepper). More of that medicinal cherry, pencil shavings, creamed corn, lots of white pepper on the back-end. Dry finish is a bit short with some spice. Unlike most Canadian whiskies, this one doesn't teeter way over into sweetness--it's recognizably Canadian, but actually quite balanced, quite interesting. Resembles, slightly, some of Forty Creek's high-end offerings, but with the sweetness really dialed back. The *actual* closest comparison, though, might be to Wiser's Red Letter--but at $70 *less* per bottle, it's actually a pretty decent value if you want to give Canadian whisky another shot.