Centennial 33 Year Old Whisky decanter bottle with gold-on-navy label, aged 33 years statement

Centennial 33 Year Old Blended Canadian Whisky · Limited Release

Limited Release · Centennial · Blended Canadian Whisky

Stuart whisky-makers since 1868. When James Stuart leased the Macallan distillery.

A hundred and fifty-eight years on, that patience pours again. One cask, thirty-three years in the Alberta foothills, drawn by hand in the spring of 2026.

I The Grain

From the foothills,
with patience.

Selected from family farms in the foothills, where the Highwood River meets the Rockies. Cold winters and long summer days help shape the character of the grain used in every bottle.

Highwood, Alberta · 1993 harvest
II The Distillation

Copper, twice.
Then forgotten.

Distilled in copper at Highwood in the autumn of 1993, one unfussy run. Casks filled, gates closed, the spirit left to its long quiet.

Highwood Distillers · Established 1974
III The Wait

Thirty-three winters.
One cask at a time.

Kentucky bourbon oak. Each cask breathing through frost and chinook. The spirit darkened. What survived three decades is what's in the bottle.

33 years, 6 months, 11 days
IV The Bottling

Eight hundred bottles.
Numbered by hand.

Thirty-three years passed. Only what time chose to leave behind remains. Each bottle numbered by hand.

Spring 2026 · Signed by Jarret Stuart
V The Allocation

Now, briefly,
available.

A small release, held back for those who ask. When they're gone, they're gone.

Allocations open · By enquiry only
Allocation · May 2026 800 bottles · numbered by hand
300 Sold
500 Available

Thirty-three years,
tasted in three breaths.

Thirty-three years, tasted in three breaths. Drawn at cask strength. Cut by the master blender, Jarod Grant, to 42% ABV. Bottled without chill-filtration so nothing is taken from the spirit beyond the alcohol the cask itself surrendered.

I · Nose

Polished oak, dried orange peel, vanilla.

The first breath is the cask. Charred Kentucky bourbon barrel still talking after three decades. Underneath: candied citrus, a soft baking spice, and a thread of caramel that doesn't push.

II · Palate

Rich vanilla, leather, toasted almond.

Mouth-coating. The wheat sweetness still surfaces. Then the oak, slow and unhurried. Dried fig and a memory of dark chocolate. Nothing tries to introduce itself. Everything is already known.

III · Finish

Long, warming, faintly spiced.

It stays. Twenty seconds, then thirty, then it's hard to say. A whisper of clove, a return of the orange peel, and finally just oak. The kind of finish thirty-three years is meant to earn.

Speyside to the foothills

A Scottish name,
a Canadian cask.

The Stuarts kept whisky on Speyside long before they kept it in Alberta. The same family that once ran Macallan stands behind this one. A line that crossed an ocean and waited a century to pour again.

Centennial 33 Year Old whisky bottle alongside its hinged walnut presentation case

Walnut,
hinged in brass.

Each bottle arrives in a hand-finished walnut case. Inside, a numbered certificate carries the fill date and the Founder's signature. The case is built to outlast the bottle, and in most homes it will.

$333 CADPer bottle · 750ml

Reserve a Bottle While allocations last.

Where the prairie
meets the foothills.

Highwood Distillers sits in High River, Alberta, a small town named for the Highwood River that runs out of the Rocky Mountains and across the prairie. The distillery was started in 1974 as a farmer-led cooperative, an early experiment in Western Canadian whisky-making. It is still working with the same grain it began with.

Caldera Distilling, the parent company today, took stewardship of Highwood in recent years. Centennial is the line of long-aged whiskies the distillery has quietly been holding back. The thirty-three-year-old is the deepest cask in that programme.

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