Macallan, 1868.
A name in Speyside.
James Stuart took the lease on the Macallan distillery and later helped establish Glenrothes. One hundred and fifty-eight years later, the Stuart name still signs whisky. Centennial.
Two coasts,
two distilleries.
Centennial 33 was distilled in the foothills of Alberta in the autumn of 1993, held in Kentucky bourbon oak through thirty-three quiet winters, and drawn in the spring of 2026. The deepest cask in a programme Caldera and Highwood have been carrying forward together since 2022.
On the other coast,
farm to bottle.
Caldera was founded in 2013 in River John, Nova Scotia, a small village on the Northumberland Strait. The distillery sits on a working farm; grain is grown there, milled, distilled, barreled, and bottled on the same hundred acres.
And in the foothills,
since 1974.
Highwood began as Sunnyvale Distillery in 1974, started by a group of southern Alberta wheat farmers who wanted somewhere to take their grain. Renamed in the mid‑eighties after the river that runs through High River, it has worked with wheat as its base ever since.
Two partners, one family,
one long bet.
Jarret Stuart founded Caldera in 2013, returning to whisky after a career in renewable energy. David Walker is his partner in the business: co-owner and managing director.
In 2022 they acquired Highwood from its founding owners. The Centennial line, which Highwood had been quietly building for decades, came with the keys. Centennial 33 is the deepest cask of that inheritance.
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