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.
Centennial 33 Year Old Blended Canadian Whisky · Limited Release
Stuart whisky-makers since 1868. When James Stuart leased the Macallan distillery.
A hundred and fifty-eight years on, that patience pours again. Thirty-three years in the Alberta foothills, drawn by hand in the autumn of 2026.
Allocation · July 2026
800 bottles · numbered by hand
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Thirty-three years,
tasted in three breaths.
Drawn at cask strength and refined to 55% ABV using Rocky Mountain water. Bottled without chill-filtration, so nothing is taken from the spirit beyond what the cask itself surrendered.
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 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.
Time,
held in glass.
Thirty-three years in Kentucky bourbon oak. Bottled at 55% ABV without chill-filtration, with every bottle numbered by hand. Centennial 33 is a Canadian whisky shaped by patience, place, and time.
$333.33 CADPer bottle · 750ml · plus shipping
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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 reserve in that programme.
Where every cask of Centennial begins and rests.
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