November 20th @ 5:30PM PST

BenRiach Single Malt: The New Range

presented by Rory Glasgow

Join us for a night of whisky education and discussion with BenRiachs newest whiskies!

Best known for their experimental approach to whiskymaking, BenRiach’s 120-year legacy is currently helmed by world reknowned master distiller Dr. Rachel Barrie, also known as “The First Lady of Scotch” – a Whisky Hall of Fame member and Keeper of the Quaich. Their single malt lineup includes peated, unpeated, and triple distilled whiskies, culminating in a brand-new range of spirits.

Featured Whiskies:

BenRiach 10 Year Old

BenRiach 12 Year Old

BenRiach The Smoky 12 Year Old

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Due to shipping delays,

we no longer have New Range BenRiach samples available 

we apologize for the inconvenience.

River Charity Toasts Whisky Donation

The conservation charity The River Dee Trust has raised a glass to one of its biggest single donations, as it forges ahead with one of the most ambitious nature restoration projects in the Cairngorms.

The Deeside Distillery in Banchory is donating its very last four casks of whisky spirit to the Trust. One of the world’s most renowned whisky writers, Charles Maclean, has described the potential of the Deeside spirit as “superlative” and “better than gold” as an investment. He admitted the young spirit was so good, he misidentified it as a fine, 18-year-old Speyside malt. The first of the casks will be auctioned at a special event next year.

Sandy Bremner, Chairman of The River Dee Trust, said: “We are extremely grateful for this donation. It’s a challenging time for all charities, and we have committed to planting a million native trees to help cool the river as it faces dangerously rising temperatures. This donation will help us continue our work to save our iconic wild salmon and restore the whole ecosystem.”

Of the four casks of spirit being donated to The River Dee Trust, three are 250-litre ex-Oloroso. The fourth is a 200-litre Virgin American Oak cask – the only one of its kind ever produced by the distillery.

Charles Maclean has been described as “Scotland’s leading whisky expert”. He was elected Keeper of the Quaich in 1992 for his “services to Scotch over many years” and granted the rare honour of being elected Master of the Quaich, the industry’s highest accolade.

After tasting the Deeside Distillery spirit which had been left to mature in an Oloroso cask for just three years, he said: “It’s terrific, I’m amazed, really astonished at the quality of the young spirit.” With a smile, he admitted that it was so good, it led him to make one of the biggest mistakes of his whisky-tasting career. He said: “Tasting it blind, I guessed it was 18-years-old. Embarrassing!”

Deeside Distillery manager Liam Pennycook said: “We are delighted to be able to help the Trust deliver its vital work. The Dee is a magical river which touches the lives of so many people. We want to help the river through the challenges ahead, to make sure it’s in the best possible shape for those who love it now, and for future generations.”

The four casks are made even rarer by the fact that only 100 of them will ever be produced by the Deeside Distillery. Liam said: “We are developing a new, bigger distillery at Hill of Banchory. Due to regulations, we can’t move its name to another site so this will become a “lost distillery”. In every sense, this will be very special whisky.”

The first of the four casks will be auctioned at a special dinner being organised by Maryculter House to raise funds for The River Dee Trust. It will be held on Friday, September 24 next year, subject to Covid restrictions. For further information about the dinner, please contact Maryculter House on 01224 732124.

Notes

1)            The River Dee Trust is a charitable organisation tasked with understanding the catchment and the factors that influence it, leading to practical works to restore the river for future generations and a community-based education programme for all ages.

2)            Angling in the River Dee generates some £15 million annually in revenues and supports an estimated 500 rural jobs.

3)            The Deeside Distillery has been a strong supporter of the River Dee Trust since 2017. It originally produced a Twin River Dee Gin, which helped raise £10k.

4)            Maryculter House is one of the most famous and historic hotels in Aberdeen located on the banks of the River Dee and overlooking the Golf Course of Peterculter. With a classic reputation for hospitality, from the building’s founding in 1227 by the Knights Templar, this location has been offering hospitality to travellers from far and wide for many years.

River Dee Trust
River Office
Mill of Dinnet
Aboyne
Aberdeenshire AB34 5LA

www.riverdee.org

SPECIAL LIVE TASTING

On Saturday 28th November from 8pm GMT, Gordon Dundas, International Brand Ambassador, and Malt Master John Glass will be coming to you live from Facebook and YouTube for a special virtual tasting – with three places available for you to be one of our panel guests on the night.

THREE EXCEPTIONAL WHISKIES

Tasting kits are available to purchase ahead of the event, allowing you to participate in debating the drams from the comfort of your home.

Priced at £30.00, the tasting kit contains 5cl drams of The Legacy Series: Chapter Two, 18 Year Old,  Cask Strength, Batch 008 and Glengoyne Glencairn glass. Buy now for delivery in time for the Live Tasting.

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Glengoyne Distillery, Dumgoyne, Near Killearn, Glasgow G63 9LB
Tel. +44 (0)1360 550 254

Email: reception@glengoyne.com

SAZERAC COMPANY NAMED AMERICAN WHISKEY PRODUCER OF THE YEAR BY 2020 INTERNATIONAL SPIRITS CHALLENGE 

            Louisville, Ky (Nov. 11, 2020) –The Sazerac Company was named the American Whiskey Producer of the Year by the International Spirits Challenge (ISC) 2020.

            The ISC awards its Producer of the Year titles to the best performing drink producers in the competition by scoring the achievement of all brands entered into a single category. The Sazerac Company claimed the American Whiskey title with 26 of its whiskies earning medals.

Of those medals, Sazerac whiskies received two Double Gold medals, 19 Gold medals and five Silver medals. Sazerac medal recipients include bourbon and rye whiskies, Irish whiskies and Canadian whiskies.

All spirits entered into the ISC are subjected to intense blind tastings conducted by panels of more than 50 respected and experienced industry professionals. Each judge assesses the products according to age, region and variety, which is determined by the entrant and verified by the chairman.

Results from the 2020 International Spirits Challenge can be found at https://www.internationalspiritschallenge.com/2020/en/page/2020-results.

About Sazerac

Sazerac is one of America’s oldest family owned, privately held distillers with operations in the United States in Louisiana, Kentucky, Indiana, Virginia, Tennessee, Maine, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Maryland, California, and global operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, India, Australia and Canada. For more information on Sazerac visit https://www.sazerac.com/.

November 19th @ 5:30PM PST:

Bushmills Irish Whiskey

Taste delicious Irish single malts and discover centuries of whiskey tradition at this expert presented virtual tasting, featuring the world’s oldest licensed whisky distillery. With over 400 years of whiskymaking under their belt, Bushmills is well known for their award-winning single malt and blended whiskies, all of which are distilled, matured, and bottled on site.

This virtual tasting will go through a variety of whiskies, with sample bottles and a cocktail recipe to follow along with our whisky expert from home. We look forward to your questions, comments, and toasts!

Featured Whiskies

Bushmills Original

Bushmills 10 Year

Bushmills 16 Year

Bushmills 21 Year

Tasting sets are available for $25 and include all whiskies 

plus surprise gifts from Bushmills Distillery

All Bushmills whiskies are 10% off

with the coupon code ‘VIRTUAL’ at checkout

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REVEALING A NEW
LIMITED EDITION BEFORE YOUR
VERY EYES

Some things are so surprising you wonder how they can possibly be true. And that’s exactly what our whiskymakers thought when they sampled cask #2 from our 2016 maturation trials: a robust one-year-old malt spirit re-racked in first fill Oloroso-seasoned butts and aged for a further three years. How could it develop such deliciousness in so little time?

Then, when we blended it with a parcel of first fill Bourbon barrels containing whisky from the now-closed Imperial Distillery, we really did think there were magical forces at work.

Tasting is believing though, and you’ll soon be able to experience it yourself. Magic Cask is being released gradually in regions from now until early February 2021. Please check our website and social channels for more information on availability. For those who appreciate lush fruitiness and fullness of body in their malt whiskies, it will be worth waiting for.

We look forward to sharing it with you.

The Compass Box Team 

OUR PRE-CHRISTMAS

FALL SUPERSALE

IS ON NOW!

Our Fall Super Sale is on now. You can browse in-store or online, but where possible our preference is for online orders. In-store shopping is limited to 6 customers at a time as a Covid-19 precaution, and we want to do our part to keep our customers, staff and community safe.

If you are not web savvy, we can help you over the phone, but please be patient, if we are busy we may need to call you back!

Purchases can be picked up in person, or at the curbside. We are also willing to deliver orders over $50 within Calgary city limits for free (otherwise a $10 fee applies – again – within Calgary city limits). Please give us at least 4 hours to confirm, process and pull your order before coming in to pick it up. We will send you a confirmation when your order is ready.

And what of the deals?

On the Whisk(e)y/Spirits side of things, Most* in-stock Whisky: Single Malts, Irish Whiskey, Bourbon, Canadian & Other Types are 10-45% off!

There are lots of great deals, and we know you’ll have fun browsing them all. Happy Hunting!

Sincerely,

Andrew Ferguson

Kensington Wine Market

*Excludes most Scotch Malt Whisky Society whiskies (though about 20 are on sale) and a few other select items!

SALE DEALS & RULES

Most In-Stock Whisky and Spirits are 10-45% off, excluding most SMWS Whiskies and a few other items.

Browse Whiskies & Spirits discounted 15% or More

by Downloading the PDF Linked Here!

Sale Rules

There are always conditions, but we believe ours are fair!

1. In the event of a discrepancy in price, the point of sale at KWM will be taken as correct.
2. Prices quoted do not include GST.
3. Sale pricing will not be applied retroactively or extended beyond the end of the sale Sunday, November 15th, 2020 at 11:59PM.
4. The sale pricing applies only to in-stock inventory.
5. Sale pricing cannot be combined with other discounts or promotions.
6. Payment info is required at the time of purchase and or order.
7. Sale is in-store and online through our website only.

Please avoid ordering by phone.

ARE YOU IN ISOLATION, WORKING FROM HOME, OR HOMESCHOOLING THE KIDS?

We Are Offering Some Great Deals

&

Free City-Wide Delivery for Orders Over $50

FREE DELIVERY – We are offering free delivery for orders over $50 placed online or over the phone, and will do our best to deliver within 72 hours.

CURBSIDE PICKUP – Place an order, we’ll let you know when it is ready. Call us when you are out front or parked in the back lot and we’ll bring it out. Simple as that!

GIFTING – Want to send someone a care package? All gifting options are still available. Quarantined parents and closed schools qualify as a “wine emergency”. Gift cards are also available and can be used over the phone.

If you are able, please submit your order online. We will answer any questions you might have before finalizing and processing your order. You are not automatically billed when you submit your order.

www.kensingtonwinemarket.com

We will do our best to answer and process as many phone orders as we can. Call us at 403-283-8000.

COVID-19 Precautions at KWM

To protect our staff and customers we have implemented some policies!

Please do not enter the store if:

• You have returned from Outside of Canada in the last 2 weeks, or you live with someone who has!
• You are showing symptoms of COVID-19, or if you have been in close contact with someone diagnosed with or suspected to have contracted COVID-19.

If the above applies to you, please order online or by phone and we can deliver!

Precautions we are taking in-store:

All of our staff are wearing masks, and we’d appreciate if you would do so too!

We are only allowing 6 customers in the store at any given time.

We have hand sanitizer throughout the store for the use of customers and staff.

We kindly ask that you do not to pick up products unless you intend to purchase them.

We are frequently disinfecting commonly touched surfaces and high contact areas within the store.

We are also not accepting cash payment at this time.

Staff are frequently washing and disinfecting their hands.

We have cancelled all in-store tastings.

We are monitoring our staff for symptoms.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we all try to navigate this challenging time!

403-283-8000

888-283-9004

Store Hours

Sunday: 11am – 6pm

Mon – Wed: 10am – 8pm

Thu – Fri: 10am – 9pm

Sat: 10am – 8pm

*All Prices Quoted here are subject to change and do not include GST. In the case of pricing discrepancies, the price at our point of sale will be taken as correct.*

Temporary Closure of Whiski Venues

 Whiski Rooms and Whiski Bar

I hope you are well and staying safe wherever you are in the world in these very uncertain times.

The latest restrictions in Edinburgh at Level 3 mean that we can’t serve any alcohol and have to close by 6PM. These operating restrictions are tough for any business to operate under and have made it unviable for both of our businesses to be open and as such we have regretfully decided that we will remain temporarily closed in both Whiski Bar on the Royal Mile and in Whiski Rooms on the Mound at the moment.

When Edinburgh is moved to Level 2 or ideally Level 1 or 0, (which we hope will be sooner rather than later), and fingers crossed, in time for the festive period before Christmas in December, we will reopen only then.

Our shop remains open on limited set days and our webshop is available 24/7 with worldwide delivery, We have a fabulous range of whiskies, Scottish spirits and tasty gins and our exclusive whisky and gin tasting sets – great gifts all available in time for Xmas, so have a look here.

OUR SHOP

Browse our web store where we have a great range of over have over 500 whiskies, Scottish gifts, whisky and gin tasting sets and Whiski merchandise.

Shop Now

We look forward to welcoming you to one of our Whiski venues sometime soon.

Gary, Anne and the Whiski teams

Fall Super Sale  Rules & Conditions

There are more rules than usual thanks to Covid-19. Please consider shopping online, we are limiting in-store shopping to 6 customers at a time, and will not be able to pour samples. Where possible please submit only one order and not multiple orders for individual products.

1. The sale is this weekend only: Friday, November 13 through Sunday, November 15, 2020.
2. Most* in-stock Whiskies are at least 10% off. Well over 250 whiskies are 15-50% off.
3. We have 20 Scotch Malt Whisky Society Whiskies on Sale for 20-25% off. All other SMWS whiskies are not on sale! You still need to be a member to buy SMWS whiskies, and SMWS bottles on sale cannot be applied towards the “Membership with Bottle Purchase” option.
4. Web orders can be submitted after midnight tonight.
5. In-store Sale Hours:

10-9 Friday

10-8 Saturday

11-6 Sunday

1. If you do want to shop in store, please respect our Covid-19 Precautions, which will be posted outside the door. Do not come in to the store if you have any Covid-19 symptoms. Please wear a mask, observe a 2m social distance with other customers and staff, refrain from picking up products unless you intend to purchase them, and please try to limit the amount of time you spend in-store. We will only be allowing up to 6 people in-store at a time. Even though we miss it, this is not the time to come and hang out, and we won’t be able to offer any samples. Note we are not currently accepting cash. We have also extended our hours Thursday-Saturday to offer more options and flexibility, and help with distancing.
2. If you can please consider ordering online!
3. Our staff will be busy at the shop so no phone orders please!
4. Payment must be provided at the time of purchase for online and email orders. No layaways.
5. Sale is on in-stock items only, with the exception of KWM exclusives (including SMWS on sale), on which we will honour the discount should we run out (provided we still have stock).
6. No additional discounts or promotions can be applied on top of these discounts. The best discount available will be the only one applied.
7. In the event of a discrepancy in price or discount, the Point of Sale at Kensington Wine Market will be taken as correct.
8. Prices quoted below and in the attachment do not include GST.
9. Absolutely no sale prices will be carried forward or applied retroactively. The sale is only in effect this weekend!

10. * Most Scotch Malt Whisky Society whiskies, and a few other items, mostly new releases are not on sale. Sale pricing does not apply to pre-orders.

Virtual Whisky Show might be over, but you can still recreate the magic with our Perfect Measure tasting packs. We have a great selection available across our seven tasting themes: Get Your Geek On, World Series, Discover Scotland, Indies Series, Distillery Collections and Just For Fun. A great way to cure those lockdown blues, brush up on your whisky wisdom and taste alongside the experts from the comfort of your own home.

And with the most wonderful time of the year just around the corner, our tasting packs make the perfect stocking filler…if we do say so ourselves.

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