With all the fantastic climate we’ve seen in latest weeks, it’s exhausting to imagine that Fall has begun. Earlier than I contact on the rest I might first wish to want you and yours a really Completely happy Thanksgiving on behalf of everybody at KWM!
As a few of you’ll know when you’ve got the misfortune of following me on Instagram or Fb, I’m simply again from two weeks in Europe. I visited wineries in Tuscany and took one in every of my managers, Shawn, on his first journey to Scotland. Sandwiched between Whisky Dwell Paris and the Whisky Present London, Shawn and I managed to squeeze in additional than a dozen distilleries on the west coast of Scotland in simply 5 days. Whereas it was enjoyable, travelling with the boss is not any trip!
I’m grateful to have been in a position to carve out for myself a life and profession that presents me with alternatives for journey, journey, progress, and discovery. I’m lucky to have a enterprise supported by superb clients and companions, share our ardour and imaginative and prescient. I’m fortunate to have a supportive household who has inspired me to benefit from these alternatives. However most significantly I’m grateful for the superb workforce I’ve right here at have at KWM, with out whom this enterprise could be nothing!
It has been a busy month at KWM, and we have now seen stable demand for our KWM 2022 Whisky Calendar since we launched pre-orders two weeks in the past. That being mentioned, primarily because of the timing of my latest adventures, we haven’t given the Calendar as a lot consideration as we normally would. To rectify that I’ve a number of extra teasers about this 12 months’s version, and we may even be extending the Pre-Pay Early Fowl Supply by one week, by midnight, Wednesday, October 12.
One of many chaps Shawn and I noticed in London on the Whisky Present, Amrut’s Ashok Chokalingham, adopted us again from London. If we glance drained within the photograph above, take into account it was taken whereas ready for our luggage in Calgary, after a 9-hour flight and a weekend of dramming!
Ashok might be on the retailer tomorrow night time for the primary time in 4 years for a Grasp Class tasting. We had a extremely cool vary for the tasting, and it simply acquired higher. I’ve been hinting that Ashok might be bringing a particular deal with with him, which I can lastly verify… the following launch of Amrut Spectrum 007! Ashok, who just lately took over as Amrut Distillery Supervisor, places on a fantastic tasting. There are nonetheless a number of open spots for the occasion which begins at 7PM
The opposite occasions I’d wish to spend a couple of minutes plugging are the 2 KWM Casks Bruichladdich Cask Launch tastings; each in-person and digital. We acquired a brand new KWM Bruichladdich cask in August, our third. However slightly than launching it instantly, we determined to tuck it away at our warehouse for a number of months. On the time it arrived we have been drowning in new KWM Casks.
Whereas it will have made extra sense to launch our new KWM Bruichladdich in a vertical tasting of Laddie whiskies, sadly there simply isn’t enough stock in the marketplace to fill out a full vary. So we determined as a substitute to spotlight another new KWM casks: 5 Single Malts and a couple of Bourbons, to be exact. However there might be a second Laddie within the tasting; I held again a few bottles of our Bruichladdich 2007 KWM Bourbon Cask, which bought out in simply a few days in 2020.
As for our new Bruichladdich 2010 KWM Bourbon Cask, we are going to open it up on the market in a few weeks. Will probably be restricted to 1 per buyer, and we’re not taking pre-orders for it, however contributors within the digital and in-person launch tastings can have the chance to buy a bottle earlier than anybody else… and there are a number of spots nonetheless open for each!
As all the time, within the occasion of a discrepancy in value, the purpose of sale at KWM might be taken as right. On-line ordering and in-store buying are all the time our preferences, however electronic mail and telephone orders are okay too!
Sincerely!
Andrew Ferguson
Kensington Wine Market
PRE-PAY EARLY BIRD OFFER EXTENDED!
THE KWM 2022 WHISKY CALENDAR
A Few Extra Particulars – Teasers, If You Will…
What can we let you know in regards to the 2022 KWM Whisky Calendar? Actually not all the things, there are too few surprises on this world, and this entire endeavour is constructed across the pleasure of discovery.
Additionally, the ultimate confirmed product checklist might be a game-time determination. If the Covid period has taught us something, it’s that one thing will all the time go sideways. We began requesting merchandise within the Fall of 2021 for this 12 months’s Calendar, and a few of them nonetheless haven’t arrived. However we additionally order further merchandise, simply to be secure!
This 12 months’s Calendar will once more be primarily composed of Single Malt whiskies, most of them Scottish. There may even be whiskies from America, Canada, India, Israel, The Netherlands, and presumably France. There are not any repeats from the final 3-4 editions, and greater than half of the distilleries and types have by no means been featured in our 9 editions in any form or type!
The Essential Pitch
The KWM Whisky Calendar, aka “25 Days of Dram Tremendous Whisky”, is again for the ninth straight 12 months. As soon as once more the calendar can have a recent new look, which might be revealed in a number of weeks’ time. This 12 months’s calendar contains 24 50ml premium whiskies, a customized emblem Glencairn glass, and a 100ml Scotch Malt Whisky Society whisky for Christmas Day. You possibly can comply with together with us on the KWM Weblog beginning December 1st or on one in every of our varied social media channels as we introduce and talk about every day’s whisky. And there’s extra…
As a result of they have been such a giant hit the final two years, we are going to as soon as once more be internet hosting the Whisky Calendar Recap Tastings all through the month of December. Purchasers and recipients of the KWM 2022 Whisky Calendar will be capable to be a part of us for any or the entire 5 digital tastings on December 5, 10, 15, 20 and after Christmas on the twenty eighth, at 7 PM MT. Every of them will cowl the 5 earlier day’s whiskies within the Calendar.
We all the time preserve the precise whisky checklist a secret – there are too few surprises left on this life – however we can let you know this 12 months’s Calendar contains 3 KWM unique casks, a few whiskies of their 20s, and greater than a dozen distilleries and producers by no means earlier than featured in any of our prior Whisky Calendars. We’re assured that we have now put collectively one other incredible Calendar this 12 months, and we all know you will find it irresistible!
Better of all, if you choose the pre-pay preorder choice, you’ll save $60! This selection was highly regarded final 12 months, and fully bought out 2020’s unique manufacturing in simply 2 weeks!
We anticipate the KWM 2022 Whisky Creation Calendars ought to be prepared for choose up in early November. That’s, as long as all the things goes as deliberate, which, within the Submit-Covid Period, you’ll be able to by no means be 100% positive of. However we’ve deliberate accordingly, and ordered early from all of our suppliers!
1) KWM 2022 Whisky Calendar Pre-Pay Early Fowl – 399.99+gst (no reductions)
Choose this feature in case you want to save $60 on the common value of $460, by prepaying now in full (please observe this can’t be mixed with different provides or reductions). You can be charged $400+gst once we obtain your order. Ends at midnight Wednesday, October 12, sharp!
2) KWM 2022 Whisky Calendar Full Worth – $459.99+gst
Choose this feature if you’re somebody for whom cash is not any object, and also you don’t need to save $60 by paying in full 3-4 weeks earlier than you’ll find yourself paying anyway… Or in case you neglect to buy the above early chicken choice earlier than midnight on Wednesday, October 12!
UPCOMING TASTINGS
Amrut Whisky with Ashok Chokalingam
· Date: Friday, October 7
· Time: 7 PM
· Value: $55
· That is an in-person tasting!
Our pal Ashok is returning to Calgary for the primary time in quite a few years and we’re thrilled to have him in retailer for an in-person tasting. Loads has modified since we final noticed Ashok, he’s now Amrut’s Distillery Supervisor. We are going to pattern 7 Amrut expressions, together with, if the celebs align, a particular deal with.
Friday, October seventh @ 7 PM
OLD first MALT version CASKs
· Date: Tuesday, October 11
· Time: 7 PM
· Value: $50
· Digital Tasting
Now that’s a mouthful, isn’t it? Excuse the cheek, however we really feel that is going to be an superior tasting! We’ve just lately acquired a curious new vary of Outdated Malt Cask and First Version whiskies from our mates at Hunter Laing. The tasting will embrace 7 single cask whiskies from Ben Nevis, Glenburgie, Highland Park, Jura, Linkwood, Miltonduff, and Royal Lochnagar. All in all, we are going to dabble in 141 years of single malt Scotch whisky.
Tuesday, October eleventh @ 7 PM
KWM Casks Bruichladdich Cask Launch – In-Retailer Tasting
· Date: Thursday, October 13
· Time: 7 PM
· Value: $50
· That is an in-person tasting!
We’ve someway managed to maintain a lid on the truth that we have now had a brand new KWM unique Bruichladdich cask quietly slumbering up at our warehouse for months. Because of our favorite Bogyman – “Provide Chain Points” – we have now acquired no fewer than a dozen single casks within the final 3 months; a typical 12 months’s price. One of many final of the dozen casks to reach, we made the choice to carry the Laddie again for a Fall launch to provide a few of our different casks an opportunity to shine. Along with being the primary customers to pattern our new Bruichladdich cask, tasting contributors may even have the chance to pattern our prior Bruichladdich cask and a collection of 5 different latest KWM single cask bottlings. If historical past is any information, this Bruichladdich cask gained’t final lengthy. So the icing on the cake for individuals who attend our digital or in-person tasting is that they may have a chance to buy a bottle every week earlier than another customers!
Thursday, October thirteenth @ 7 PM
KWM Casks Bruichladdich Cask Launch – Digital Tasting
· Date: Friday, October 14
· Time: 7 PM
· Value: $40
· Digital Tasting
Similar as above, however Digital. From the consolation of your personal house!
Friday, October 14th @ 7 PM
Shelter Level Returns with Chris Learn
· Date: Tuesday, October 18
· Time: 7 PM
· Value: $20
· That is an in-person tasting!
Considered one of our favorite Canadian Distilleries, Shelter Level, has been on a little bit of a hiatus from Alberta in latest months. Now they’re coming again, and in tremendous type too, with new whiskies, a brand new model ambassador, and a brand new importer. Model Ambassador Chris Learn might be our information as we pattern by 7 Shelter Level whiskies, together with the soon-to-be-released Evans Household Reserve, and Shelter Level 10 Yr.
Tuesday, October 18th @ 7 PM
Rye Not Rye? Digital Tasting
· Date: Tuesday, October 20
· Time: 7 PM
· Value: $40
· Digital Tasting
If all you understand of Rye is Crown Royal, we’re sorry (principally as a result of we imagine Rye Whisky ought to truly include…effectively…rye; absurd, proper?). Rye is making a comeback and as a metropolis that’s house to top-of-the-line Rye producers on this planet, we’re not strangers to good old style (not the cocktail) near-100% Rye whiskies. Fortunately an increasing number of persons are leaping on the rye practice and the flavours are vastly completely different even when the mash payments are the identical. Canada has very loosey-goosey guidelines in terms of what makes Canadian Rye Whisky, different international locations have extra agency guidelines on how Rye Whisky could be made and we need to share these with you. Concord and Evan are proud to current a lineup of near-100% Rye-based whiskies which are positive to knock your boots off.
Tuesday, October twentieth @ 7 PM
Glenfarclas KWM thirtieth Anniversary Tasting with Deborah Stewart – 6 PM & 8 PM
· Date: Tuesday, October 25
· First Seating Time: 6 PM
· Second Seating Time: 8 PM
· Value: $40
· These are each in-person tastings!
Glenfarclas’s Deborah Stewart might be our particular visitor as we have fun the launch of our Glenfarclas 1992 KWM thirtieth Anniversary Household Cask with an unimaginable vertical tasting. We are going to pattern the Glenfarclas 15, 21, 25, 30, and 40-year-olds, in addition to the KWM Cask Energy 21 Yr and our new 1992 Household Cask. In all, 181 years of liquid historical past for simply $40!!!
Tuesday, October twenty fifth @ 6 PM andTuesday, October twenty fifth @ 8 PM
Kinda Uncommon & Outdated Whiskies: 20 is the brand new 30
· Date: Wednesday, October 26
· Time: 7 PM
· Value: $150
· Digital Tasting
You need to know the drill by now: the massive man has recognized a variety of whiskies he desires to style, and the vary is unlikely to disappoint. This time round we have now a variety of 8 whiskies: 6 of their twenties and a couple of of their early thirties. We’ve a trio of previous Edradours, a pair of Millstones distilled within the Nineteen Nineties, a Gordon & MacPhail Miltonduff from 1989, and OB single casks of BenRiach (1997) and GlenDronach (1990). In whole, you’ll take pleasure in simply shy of 200 years price of single malt whisky!
Wednesday, October twenty sixth @ 7 PM
Bathroom v. Bodega: Peat Monsters & Sherry Bombs
· Date: Thursday, October 27
· Time: 7 PM
· Value: $80
· That is an in-person tasting!
Peat and sherry are unquestionably the massive weapons within the whisky world. Whereas these are arguably probably the most polarizing kinds of whisky on the market, they’re additionally far and away probably the most in demand. The theme for this tasting is elegantly easy: dark-sherried beauties meet daring smoky beasts. From the bodegas of Jerez to the peat banks of Scotland, we’ll work our approach by a few of the most intense flavours on the spectrum. Although not a tasting for the faint of coronary heart, Curt has pulled collectively some particular bottles for this vary!
Thursday, October twenty seventh @ 7 PM
Boutique-y North-West Euro Specific w/ Dave Worthington
· Date: Saturday, October 29
· Time: 5 PM
· Value: $50
· Digital Tasting
Are you able to consider a greater technique to spend an early Saturday night in October than geeking out on whisky with Boutique-y Dave and the KWM crew? We’ve chosen 8 whiskies for the tasting, launched as part of Boutique-y’s North-West Euro Specific. The vary highlights single malts, ryes, and a buckwheat spirit (that may’t legally be known as whisky) from North West European Distilleries. We’ll be sampling drams from Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, and Switzerland.
Saturday, October twenty ninth @ 5 PM
Glenfarclas Household Casks 2021 – The Nineteen Nineties
· Date: Tuesday, November 1
· Time: 7 PM
· Value: $100
· Digital Tasting
On the one hand, this tasting was a fantastic alternative for us to function our new Glenfarclas 1992 KWM thirtieth Anniversary Household Cask… But it surely additionally has the additional benefit of permitting us to pattern a few of the superb Summer time 2021 Glenfarclas Household Casks we acquired within the Spring. There have been too many to suit into one tasting, so we broke them down into the 1990 and the 2000s. This tasting will function the next S21 vintages: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, and 1998; in addition to our personal unique 1992 cask.
Tuesday, November 1st @ 7 PM
Elixir Distillers Single Casks w/ Celine Tetu
· Date: Friday, November 4
· Time: 7 PM
· Value: $50
· That is an in-person tasting!
Elixir Distillers has grow to be one in every of our greatest companions lately, they usually preserve feeding us some completely superb single casks. The newest batch was chosen within the Winter or Spring of 2021, however attributable to all of the challenges round logistics today, they solely simply arrived within the late Spring! We did a model of this tasting in the summertime with Elixir Distiller’s Celine Tetu, and now she’s coming to city, so we’ll function the identical vary in-store. Visitors will pattern 7 Single Malts of Scotland bottlings, with 6 of them being cask energy, single cask whiskies. Members will strive the 4 most up-to-date KWM casks: Ardmore 11 Yr, Glenburgie 22 Yr, Imperial 22 Yr, and Mannochmore 13 Yr, and three others: Ben Nevis 1997, Linkwood 11 Yr, and Reserve Casks Glencadam 10 Yr.
Friday, November 4th @ 7 PM
…By Any Different Title: Secret Whiskies from Not So Secret Distilleries
· Date: Tuesday, November 8
· Time: 7 PM
· Value: $40
· Digital Tasting
“What’s in a reputation? That which we name a rose by another title would scent as candy.”
Somewhat little bit of Romeo and Juliet for you, of us. However what’s in a reputation? We sorta assume that’s a subject for group dialogue. And a dialogue is sort of all the time extra satisfying over a number of drams (that is incontrovertible fact). There are a number of distilleries in Scotland which are very protecting of their model. There are others that merely produce a handful of in-house kinds beneath completely different names. In each instances, we frequently discover labels that make us second-guess our distillery data. For this occasion, we’ll be tasting a number of very well-known distilleries bottled beneath some very completely different names. We’ll inform some tales and perhaps even speculate a bit in some instances. Be a part of us for a night of sipping, sleuthing, and secret revealing. Curt was actually enthusiastic about this vary, and we are able to guarantee you it gained’t disappoint.
Tuesday, November eighth @ 7 PM
Fall Single Malt Competition – Evening 1 & Evening 2
· Date 1: Tuesday, November 10
· Date 2: Tuesday, November 24
· Time: 7 PM to 9 PM
· Value: $75
· That is an in-person pageant tasting!
As we did within the Spring for our thirtieth Anniversary, we’re providing two more-or-less similar Fall Single Malt Festivals, two weeks aside, each for a reasonably smaller crowd than typical, to provide as a lot of our whisky mates as attainable an opportunity to attend. There might be as much as 100 whiskies to pattern, and the worth features a thirtieth Anniversary KWM emblem glass. As all the time, our neighbour Peasant cheese might be lining your stomachs with scrumptious cheese, charcuterie, sausage rolls, and different treats! Each Festivals are restricted to 80 contributors and we’re asking individuals to solely register for one date or the opposite, not each, out of respect for different clients.
Thursday, November 10, 7 PM – 9 PM & Thursday, November 24, 7 PM – 9 PM.
Boutique-y Cool & Uncommon Whisky w/ Dave Worthington
· Date: Saturday, November 12
· Time: 5 PM
· Value: $70
· Digital Tasting
This can absolutely be one of the enjoyable ranges we pattern with Boutique-y Dave. It contains 4 just lately launch That Boutique-y Whisky Co. Blends at 22, 32, 42 and 52 years of age! The final one is an actual curiosity, as having fallen under 40% it isn’t legally whisky… however it will likely be attention-grabbing to strive! To spherical out the lineup we’re including Ledaig 21 Yr, Allt-A-Bhaine 23 Yr, and a teaspooned presumably Glen Scotia 24 Yr. 216 years of liquid historical past, with one of many business’s most entertaining hosts!
Saturday, November twelfth @ 5 PM
Glenfarclas Household Casks 2021 – The 2000s
· Date: Tuesday, November 15
· Time: 7 PM
· Value: $65
· Digital Tasting
No, we gained’t be sampling the KWM thirtieth Anniversary Household Cask on this session, however we nonetheless have an unimaginable lineup of Glenfarclas single casks. We held again a bottle every of a few of the highlights from the Summer time 2021 Glenfarclas Household Cask releases. On this session, we’ll pattern bottlings from 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Tuesday, November fifteenth @ 7 PM
Kinship Assortment 2021 +1
· Date: Tuesday, December 6
· Time: 7 PM
· Value: $225
· Digital Tasting
Who doesn’t love previous Islay malts? We purchased a few units of the 2021 Kinship Assortment from Hunter Laing as a result of we knew we have been going to need to open one for a tasting. The set consists of:
Ardbeg 19 Yr, Bowmore 33 Yr, Bruichladdich 29 Yr, Bunnahabhain 31 Yr, Caol Ila 40 Yr, and Laphroaig 23 Yr. However that’s solely 6 whiskies, and we wish to have at the least 7 at our tastings, so we’re tossing in a stunning sherried First Version Laphroaig 14 Yr to spherical out our vary. Be a part of the KWM workforce as we sip our approach by 189 years of Islay glory!
Tuesday, December sixth @ 7 PM
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