A Festive Gift to Cap the Year “Canadian Whisky” by Davin de Kergommeaux – Canadian Whisky News
2024 has been My Year of the Book, so a sincere and humble THANK YOU to all the whisky makers, promoters, whisky clubs and pubs, festivals, event sponsors and others who have helped make it a success. Canadian Whisky Third Edition is now in bookstores and at online booksellers, or order below for Christmas delivery.
Canadian Whisky: The Essential Portable Expert, Third Edition is now in stores and at all online booksellers.
But what makes it a new edition?
There are no real rules, but my publisher wanted at least 35% all-new material. When I told him there were way more changes and new information than that, he responded “Go wild,” and I did.
The publisher went wild too, illustrating this new edition with glorious full colour photos, many of them rarely seen historic images. And it’s a hard cover book too this time, so pleasing to hold and ideal for gift-giving.
Nearly two dozen significant historical distilleries are profiled for the first time ever. Some of these were huge enterprises, as large as Seagram’s or Gooderham and Worts, but until now, lost to time.
I updated or re-wrote every chapter, some of them extensively, and included several new ones including one about a little-known Canadian whisky family dynasty, now in its fifth generation.
All of Canada’s major distilleries have new, updated profiles, in some cases entirely changed to reflect new research, new sources, new practices, and new owners doing new things in new ways.
The smaller distilleries, Canada’s craft producers, get a lot more attention this time, reflecting the growth and maturity of a new distilling movement, driven by authenticity. It’s a movement that is giving consumers and major producers good reason to take notice.
Over 120 tasting notes, each illustrated with a colour photo of the bottle tell another story of Canadian whisky, this one through historical drams and the latest releases.
And the publisher created new maps locating legacy, historical and craft distilleries, to give readers an overview at a glance of the geography of distilling in Canada.
All in all, it’s a brand new book, and that’s not just me speaking, but the opinion of whisky geeks from coast to coast who have collected and read the earlier editions. It’s new, it’s now, and it would be most welcome under any whisky lover’s Christmas tree.
