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RYE


Canadian Whisky Round-up


DAVIN DE KERGOMMEAUX


in 2015: Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye had been named the best whisky in the world. While Scotch drinkers sneered and bloggers launched emotional tirades, whisky lovers around the world quietly lined up to buy a bottle – or two. The result? In no time the Manitoba-made whisky was sold out, (though available on the grey market for six times its original price.) Suddenly, Canadian whisky was on everyone’s want list. Better than that, once they had tasted it, people came back in droves in search of more. After decades of slow


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decline, Canadian whisky has seen a turn-around in the past three or four years. It is no surprise then that in 2016 sales of Canadian whisky rose 5 per cent. Has Northern Harvest Rye pushed it past the tipping point? It has certainly helped, but Crown Royal is not the only Canadian distillery bottling world-class whiskies. Each of Canada’s


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traditional Big Eight distillers is expanding the breadth and depth of options available to discerning imbibers. The range of whiskies sitting in distillery warehouses across the country ensures that


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Canadian whisky makers are uniquely well placed to do that – quickly.


Validation from abroad Make no mistake; when the


American rye craze took off about five years ago, US-based whisky companies looked to Alberta warehouses for whisky. Take Masterson’s for example. This is one of America’s best selling brands of rye whisky. Today, robust, flavoursome


whiskies are in high demand right across North America and beyond. Connoisseurs who first experienced Canada’s best via Forty Creek, Collingwood, and Crown Royal, are now embracing Lot No. 40, Pike Creek and the four-grain beauty, Gooderham and Worts from the Hiram Walker distillery in Windsor, Ontario. And there’s more. A 20-


year old release called Ninety, from Highwood Distillers in High River has aficionados’ tongues wagging – in a good way. Alberta Distillers in Calgary has introduced Alberta Premium Dark Horse and the head-turning Canadian Club 100% Rye. Together, these whiskies have seized the attention of bartenders who are excited to put a whole new twist on high-end cocktails by contiinued on page 58


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