761 Enterprise Crescent
Saanich, Greater Victoria • BC
Canada • V8Z 6P7
Liquor Store Only Hours:
Mon & Tues : 9AM – 5PM (No tastings or tours)
Tasting Room Hours:
Weds & Thurs: 12PM – 6PM
Fri & Sat: 12PM – 8PM
Sun: 12PM – 6PM
Last Call is 30 mins before closing time
House Character & Tasting Notes
From our ‘peated’ single malt range, this island whisky undergoes double distillation using traditional Scottish methods, uses only the finest local malted barley and is uniquely peat-smoked at the distillery – a practice exclusive to a select few. Our patient, purposeful distillation yields acomplex, layered, and balanced ‘clearach’ (new-make spirit).
Renowned whisky maturation expert Dr. Swan has lauded the original newmake from our copper pot stills as ‘the best I have tasted in any distillery at this stage,super fruity.’ This peated distillate maintains the smooth and fruity character, now adorned with delicate, intricate peat-smoke notes. Peat smoking contributes the truest ‘terroir’ in whisky appreciation.Therefore, our Peat Project TM range allows you to explore how peats fromWashington USA, Canada, and Scotland dier in their unique flavour profiles.
This expression was distilled using local barley peat-smoked at our distillery to 54 ppm with local Washington State peat infused with sugar-kelp seaweed. It was thenfully matured in a carefully selected ex-Bourbon cask, blanketed with fresh maritime island air. This single cask allows comparison with other peat terroirs, and across our range of wine, virgin oak and Bourbon casks.
The nose has fresh sea breeze and beach-wood bonfire followed by ice cream soda, barley wine, sherbet, ripe pear, banana and red currants,leading to marmalade, meadow flowers, honeycomb, dry hay, cedar,dried green tea and sweet tobacco smoke. It opens to vanilla fudge,white chocolate, Brazil nuts, green cardamon and sandal wood.
The palate is sweet, creamy and viscous (with great legs) with sugar kelp, sweet bonfire smoke and beach tangle, leading to butterscotch, vanilla pods, lemon grass, juicy ripe pears, nectarines and pineapple, sweet pink grapefruit and coconut milk. Then comes creamy toee, heather honey, flowers, fresh rosemary and dried herbs. The lingering finish has walnut, tea chest,oiled oak, roasted mustard seeds, seashells and sea tangle, smoked oysters, fruity pipe smoke, and bonfire embers with a hint of salt.
We take pride in the quality, care and attention we put into all of our whiskies. The new-make spirit, from which this whisky was crafted, won World’s Best at the prestigeous World Whiskies Awards.
