The first expression launched in the name of King Car conglomerate, this single malt's complexity represents the company's diversity and multi-faceted business. Diverse with complex flavours, it has delicate aromas and multiple layers of background fruitiness. Sweet rich vanilla, banana, and coconut with a slight pleasant bitterness balancing the sweetness.

TASTING NOTES

Colour: Vivid amber

Flavour: Excellently clean and freshly fruity single malt. A touch of papaya, banana and green apple, just to name a few. Pleasantly floral, delicate and complex with depths and multilayers of aromas, fragrances and nuances waiting to be discovered by each individual and connoisseur!

Palate: Sweet, rich, vanilla, banana but also coconut, a slight pleasant bitterness balancing the sweetness. A mouthfilling dram, more complex and sophisticated than you will ever imagine. A grand masterpiece to represent and bear the name of the Group - King Car.

Tasting: Pair rich dishes, such as in Taiwanese, Thai and Japanese cuisine, with King Car Conductor.

RUSSELL’S RESERVE SINGLE RICKHOUSE

Inspired by the unique conditions of the rickhouses at the Wild Turkey Distilling Co, the Russell Family proudly introduce the Single Rickhouse collection, featuring a limited release of liquid from a single rickhouse. This collection explores the often unsung contributions specific resting places have on a whiskey’s final character, celebrating varied nuances of whiskey aging across these different environments.

The inaugural release, Russell’s Reserve Single Rickhouse from Camp Nelson C is bottled from a small batch of just 72 barrels. Aged on the optimal center cut floors 3 and 4, bottled at 112.4 barrel proof, and non-chill filtered, this rich and decadent bourbon delivers a rich, unexpected blend of flavors that captures the essence and spirit of its roots. Camp Nelson C has since been dismantled – making this unique bottling truly one of a kind.

TASTING NOTES

COLOR: Rich, dark amber

AROMA: Vanilla, caramel and cream that transition to fresh and dried fruit and then notes of brown sugar, oak and char.

TASTE: Thick and rich introduction with notes of toffee, coconut and vanilla that transition to notes of apple, dried fruit, toasted pecan, chocolate and baking spices.

FINISH: Long finish with silky mouthcoating that transitions to a pleasant balance of oak, baking spices and rich sweetness.

Tomoe Gozen, the most feared female samurai in Japanese history, was just as as ruthless as she was beautiful. Legend says that she led as many as 1,000 soldiers on the battlefield, being a top military leader in the 13th century. Her weapon of choice was a long curved blade called a naginata, and a short dagger called a kaiken. Tomoe translates to “comma”, and is a comma-like swirl shape on Japanese family crests, a pattern that she wore on her samurai shoulder pads. Gozen is an ancient title given to women of honor.

An homage to this fierce female warrior, this specially made Japanese whisky is crafted at the Yamanashi Prefecture Distillery. Aged 8 years in Mizunara oak barrels, with transfer into a single vat for additional aging. Composed of 60% grain whisky and 40% malt. Warm gold color with notes of honey, fruit, vanilla, and oak. Exotic flavors of red apple, flan, coconut, marzipan, vanilla, and rum cake, with a medium length finish.

Yamato was created by Aiko Importers after learning of excess barrels of Japanese Whisky at one of the largest distilleries in the Yamanashi Prefecture in Japan, located southwest of Tokyo on the main island of Honshu. Aiko Importers was able to acquire the whisky, and under Japanese authority, develop Yamato, as an exclusive, small batch brand.

The Japanese characters on the label translate to the words; "great harmony"....the perfect description for the rich whisky. According to the distillery, the Yamato is a blend of malted Scotch whisky and a distillate made from select grain grown in the Yamanashi Prefecture.

The Kofu Basin, a land-locked, fertile central valley, is surrounded by many of the highest mountains in Japan including the world renowned Mt. Fuji. The mini-climate created by these geographical features and fertile soil slows the maturation of the grains imparting a unique richness of flavor. The cold winters and firey summers intensify the aging process of the whisky, imparting flavor and boldness to the blend. To maintain the natural character of the whisky, it is not chill filtered. Yamato is a blend of 3 to 8 year whisky aged in Mizunara Oak barrels.

Tasting Notes

Nose: Distinct licorice - bourbon notes with near perfect toasted honeycomb and toffee aromas.

Taste: Outstanding richness and sheen with a plump barley-oak sweetness. Light anise and molasses add a pleasurable dimension. Vanilla, nougat and hazelnuts.

Finish: Round Vanilla, soft oak, toffee, mid-palate dryness

Bushido Series Whisky is known for bringing highly sought after Japanese whiskies to the US market. This time in the form of a 15-year-old pure malt. You'll experience flavors mirroring REI pure malt but intensified. Explosions of tropical fruit, especially pineapple, from the start, then gentle oak from the 15 years spent in ex-bourbon casks, and a finish of smoothness with little to no burn. 

Maker Notes

The newest member of the Most Awarded Flavored Whiskey Family. Our smooth Kentucky whiskey combined seamlessly with sweet gingerbread cookie flavors to make this a “must-have” during your holiday celebrations.

TASTING NOTES

Color: Golden-reddish amber

Nose: A pleasantly sweet aroma with a mild bourbon undertone

Body: A combination of ginger, cinnamon, and other delicious spiced followed by traditional bourbon flavors of vanilla and oak

Finish: A light linger with a warm finish

Bird Dog Small Batch 7-Year Bourbon Whiskey is a meticulously crafted spirit known for its smoothness and depth of flavor. Aged for seven years, this bourbon exudes rich caramel and vanilla notes, complemented by hints of oak and a touch of sweetness. Its balanced profile offers a warm, satisfying experience with each sip. Bird Dog Small Batch stands out for its quality, earning praise from bourbon enthusiasts for its refined taste and character. Whether enjoyed neat or in cocktails, this bourbon whiskey promises a delightful drinking experience for those seeking a well-aged, nuanced spirit.

As they say, opposites attract – so we decided to test that theory. Our Jalapeño Honey Bird Dog Whiskey blends two unexpected flavors for an irresistible combination. This sweet heat features light honey and vanilla aromas with hints of spicy, fresh Jalapeño. Just before the heat gets the best of you, the sweet honey brings you back in for another sip. This gold medalist from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition takes center stage in our Party Dog cocktail.

Tasting Notes

Color: Golden amber

Nose: A light, sweet honeyed aroma with a zesty, crisp Jalapeño blast

Body: Smooth hints of vanilla and honey notes

Finish: A sleek, warm, Jalapeño finish, leaving on the slightest reference of spiced heat

About the Brand

The Breckenridge Distillery is the “World’s Highest Distillery”. Founded in 2008, the Breckenridge Distillery is most widely known for its blended bourbon whiskey, a high-rye mash American-style whiskey. Breckenridge Bourbon is one of the most highly awarded crafted bourbons; 4x winner of Best American Blended (2016, 17, 18, and 2019) from the World Whiskies Awards and Bourbon of the Year in 2011 at the Int’l Wine & Spirits Competition, and 2019 Colorado Distillery of the Year at the New York Int’l Spirits Competition. In 2018, Breckenridge Distillery won the coveted Icons of Whisky for Brand Innovator of the Year.

Since coming online in 2008 and releasing its first vodka and bourbon three years later, Breckenridge Distillery has quickly become an award-winning producer of fine spirits, being designated one of the top three bourbons in the U.S. How it all came to be, however, stems from a mix of just the right ingredients, a hint of luck and a deep love for quality whiskey.

Imperial Stout Cask testing notes

Cinnamon and Oak envelop the nose with a light background of fresh orange zest and chocolate. Smooth abundant caramel and dark chocolate hit the palate first as a dry matured oak and bold cinnamon spice follow and ride out for a long dry, spicy finish.

The un-official fruit of the South is making a statement in our Bird Dog Peach Whiskey. Lush, fragrant fruit salutes your senses at the front of this golden amber infusion. Vanilla and oak undertones roll into the soft familiar warmth of rich bourbon for a well-rounded libation experience. It doesn’t get more southern than our Southern Peach Tea, your favorite front porch refresher with a kick.

Tasting Notes

Color: Golden Amber

Nose: Fragrant peaches upfront

Body: Savory peach flavors, immediately followed by vanilla and oak undertones

Finish: The peach flavors roll into the soft familiar warmth of rich bourbon

Maker Notes

Part of our Cask Finish Series. It is gently cut and finished in carefully selected Bordeaux casks at our Atlantic Ocean warehouse.

TASTING NOTES

NOSE: Toasted Oak & sweet red berries.

PALATE: Fruity with flavours of strawberries, honey, vanilla and wood spice.

FINISH: Wood spice & a hint of cracked pepper.

AWARDS

SILVER MEDAL - Products awarded a Silver medal are outstanding in their category. They show refinement, finesse, and complexity. They are among the best examples of their particular category.

World Spirits Competition - San Francisco World Spirit Awards 2019

BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY SUPERIOR QUALITY

USQUAEBACH ‘OLD-RARE’ BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY CONSISTS OF 41 CAREFULLY SELECTED SINGLE MALTS FROM THE HIGHLANDS AGED UP TO 20 YEARS AND TWO OF THE HIGHLANDS’ FINEST GRAIN WHISKIES. SINGLE MALTS MAKE UP 85% OF THIS BLEND.

OUR PORCELAIN FLAGON IS A VESTIGE OF SCOTCH WHISKY’S HISTORY, AND THE DISTINGUISHED QUALITY OF ‘OLD-RARE’ HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED BY CONNOISSEURS AND AFICIONADOS THE WORLD OVER.

TASTING NOTES

APPEARANCE: RICH AMBER

NOSE: CEDAR WOOD, CRACKED PEPPER, CRÈME BRÛLÉE, PIPE TOBACCO

PALATE: COFFEE BEANS, WHITE CHOCOLATE, PINE FOREST.

FINISH: REFINED, NOTES OF WARM SPICE & MALTED BARLEY.

This single cask malt offers slightly above average peat for Highland Park, heather honey rich with tannins and peat, and a heavy saltiness. The palate is silky, offering a greeting heavy with smoke and lightly oiled barley sugar, and some dark liquorice sweetness, underlined with exotic fruit. The nose is long and smoky, drawn out with teasing spices and molasses, oak and delightfully softened with phenols at the close.

Nose: Pretty near perfect HP for its age, and one of the best examples of the distillery of that era I have nosed for a very long time. Slightly above average peat for a HP, which works perfectly in its favour. The usual heather honey has been skewed slightly by the heady mix of tannins and peat. The saltiness is profound, the oak a rich, spicy backbone. The sweetness is subtle and still honeyed, but more now a blend of Manuka and orange blossom. Truly magnificent! 

Taste: Scotland’s silkiest malt at its most silky. The bold smoke on arrival is caught in the velvet gloves of the lightly oiled barley sugar, a dark liquorice sweetness spreading as the oak makes its mark. The spices are prim, proper and just so, never moving out of their set orbit while the honey starts to make its long-awaited mark, bringing with it the light smoke; a quick surge of exotic fruit underlines the antiquity with aplomb.

Finish: Long, increasingly smoky with the spices still teasing and forging a beautiful duet with the molassed sugars; the oak beats out an aged pulse but the phenols return to soften as well and entertain.

Balance: This is a malt whisky coming to the end of its life, like a star becomes a white dwarf before the end of its existence. In density is huge…and I mean gigantic. The oaks are about to explode…but the cask has been bottled in the nick of time where the balance is still near perfect. Fine margins…for a very fine whisky.

For our fourth Vaults project, we had the luxury of blending barrels from our stocks of up to 20 year old casks. The Vaults is a unique series: exceptional & mature whiskey, rebarrelled in new cooperage. When distillate is barreled, it is young and wild. After a decade and half, it is mellow and mature. Placing The Vaults blend in new oak polishes older whiskey in a surprising way. It enhances the intensity, richness, and depth of flavor, giving it that Widow Jane signature taste. 

An act of congress in 1964 established bourbon as our only true American Spirit. Combining Tennessee & Indiana bourbon, blended & finished in New York, rebarreled in wood from the Missouri Ozarks, this truly is an American Spirit. 

In the Vaults tradition, you’ll find sweet tobacco and leather, vanilla, sarsaparilla, unsweetened cinnamon and cocoa powder, along with a hint of a seasoned oak campfire. It is cut to proof using the water of the legendary Rosendale mines of New York State. This complimentary ingredient lends beautiful minerality and a finish that can only be Widow Jane. 

Tasting Notes

Aroma: Broken in Leather, Seasoned Oak Campfire

Taste: Sweet Tobacco, Vanilla, Sarsaparilla

Finish: Unsweetened Cinnamon, Cocoa Powder

A limited collection of exclusively selected barrels. These barrels were hand selected from Colonel Blanton's famous Warehouse H for this exceptional Special Release project. In addition to these one of a kind hand selected barrels, this 2022 Special Release includes a custom art label and gift box named for "Char No. 4" as a tribute to the wood charring process and its impact on bourbon's taste and color.

These specially selected barrels highlight the beautiful aromas and flavors known only to Blanton's Bourbon and its esteemed heritage of single barrel bourbon.

Maker Notes

A blend of 4+ year old Coppercraft-distilled and 9+ year old sourced Indiana bourbon creates a punchy, spicy whiskey. We use brandy blending and proofing techniques that take three months from barrel to bottle.

Maker Notes

Our award-winning rye moves across your palate, first with hints of cocoa and malt, then kicks in with a peppercorn spice that is distinctly rye. A blend of 2+ year old distilled and sourced rye barrels.

ROCKET TOP

SINGLE SEASON, SINGLE DISTILLERY

This rare whiskey was bottled under the strict tenents of the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897. Aged in the temperate climate of the Northern California coast, the original distillate was altered only by the addition of pure water from the Russian River Valley aquifer. This is the purest expression of Redwood Empire’s craft.

TASTING NOTES

COLOR: rust, orange

NOSE: bergamot, sage, dates

PALATE: fig jam, caramel corn, cracked pink peppercorn

MASH BILL: 87% Rye 5% Barley 5% Wheat 3% corn

AGE: 5 Years

PROOF: 100

ROCKET TOP
365 FT TALL / 2000 YEARS OLD
HUMBOLDT REDWOODS STATE PARK
The Redwood Empire stretches from San Francisco to Humboldt Bay and on to the Oregon border. The region is home to majestic coastal redwoods, some more than 2,000 years old. The Patriarch Forest in Humboldt Redwoods State Park is home to Rocket Top, a tree reminiscent of a 365-foot-tall bottle rocket. This rye is as complex and extraordinary as the tree it represents.

AWARDS

95 POINTS - Tasting Panel 2022

95 POINTS - Somm Journal 2022

The Cardrona Single Malt Whisky “Just Hatched” is a special natural cask strength bottling marking the momentous occasion of reaching three years old. A marriage of ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks, this “Just Hatched” Whisky reveals Cardrona’s underlying character of borage flower honey, vanilla, spice, with weighted spirit on the tongue – an indication of the adult whisky to come.