BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #193 - Noteworthy Barrel Rested Gin

DISTILLERY NOTES

Our Barrel Rested gin is our signature New Western Dry that has been aged in select oak barrels for more than a year. Each barrel release develops unique complexity and depth through maturation. It entices you to contest convention and explore new sensory sophistication.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

I still feel that barrel aged gins are horribly misunderstood but the Noteworthy Gin from Dubh Glas Distillery uses the addition of a years worth of barrel resting to its advantage, creating a jacked up version of their classic gin where the barrel adds a spicy complexity of ginger and dried grapefruit peel. 

Alcohol - 43% / 86 proof

Color - Light wheat gold

Nose - Light oak with undertones of floral notes of lavender and citrusy juniper

Taste - Bright citrus, grapefruit pith, juniper and floral tones lead into subtle but pronounced light oak

Finish - Clean, bright citrus and strong floral tones

Best Enjoyed - Sub for their regular gin to give it a boot up in your cocktails.

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #192 - Okanagan Spirits Canados

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Created using Okanagan, BC, Jonah Gold and Hyslop Crab apples it delivers a distinct change-up between lively flavours of exotic fruit and cinnamon with the aromas of the oak barrel that has set free hints of vanilla.

Stored in French Oak barrels for a minimum of three years this apple brandy has convinced many Single Malt (Scotch) connoisseurs with it’s oak finish and makes an ideal gift for whisky drinkers.

Great as a stand-alone sipper, in Sidecars and any recipe that calls for Calvados.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

Everyone knows my undying love of brandies and I honestly can’t believe I haven’t done this one before. The Okanagan Spirits Canados is a great example of what you can create in BC when it comes to amazing apple brandies, a blend of Okanagan apples and aged in French oak for three years; it’s bright, tannic and delightfully balanced with the barrel aging. 

Alcohol - 40% / 80 Proof

Color - Deep burnt orange

Nose - Gorgeous fragrant apples, hints of sweet, tannic and sour with a tinge of vanilla

Taste - Mouthful of fresh apple, tannic skin, sweet flesh and hints of bright acidity leans into the gorgeous French oak vanilla and hints of oaky spice.

Finish - Fresh apples with hints of vanilla oak

Best Enjoyed - Neat

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #191 - DeVine Distillery Ancient Grains

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What do we mean by ‘Alternative Whisky’? …Alt Whisky is described as a modern, new world spirit made using alternative grains and techniques and by the whims and desires of the distiller them-self.

With that in mind, Ancient Grains was born. Distilled from BC barley, spelt, emmer, khorosan and einkorn-the ancestors of all modern grains and deeply significant to the culture and heritage of our province. Guaranteed to be one of the most unique whiskies one has ever laid lips to.

Aged in new American oak quarter-casks; notes of candied fruit and macadamia nuts combine with spicy notes of clove, allspice and smoke.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

This is a special one from DeVine Distillery, a true exploration into terroir specific grains from the Saanich Peninsula. Complex grain profiles unlike anything you’ve ever tasted, deep sweet notes blend with spicy tones and husky grain profiles.

Alcohol - 45% / 90 Proof

Color - Deep burnt orange

Nose - Complex grain structure, spicy, sweet and husky grains

Taste - Massive texture, difficult to put your finger on the flavors as the grains they use are so unique and different that it’s hard to pinpoint the flavors. You have spicy notes balanced with deep sweet tones reminiscent of rye and corn. Completely unique.

Finish - Long and lingering spicy and wood oak

Best Enjoyed - Neat

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #190 - Odd Society Commodore Single Malt

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Commodore honours tradition—beckoning back to a Scottish heritage—while proudly thriving in its West Coast berth. This refined spirit is distilled with 100% BC grown, malted barley. To that, it owes its distinctive peppery-sweetness, along with its dark fruit and tobacco notes. This single malt is unyieldingly confident and proudly declares: welcome to the New World.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

Odd Society Limited release Commodore Single Malt. On the nose and color hints to its youthful cut grass, floral rolling hill style of the highlands of Scotland but on the palate it shocks you with deep baddy notes of dark fruits and cigar balancing off those classic bright notes of the highlands. Must have in your whisky selection.

Alcohol - 46% / 92 Proof

Color - Translucent golden wheat

Nose - Hints of what’s to come, bright barley notes, cut grass, floral with deeper bassy notes of dry cacao lingering behind

Taste - Huge mouthfeel, the nose and color don’t let you expect the complexity of the palate. Those bright fragrant notes are balanced with spice, tobacco and red fruit.

Finish - Long and lingering red fruit and cigar

Best Enjoyed - Neat

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #189 - Roots and Wings Dill Pickle Vodka

DISTILLERY NOTES

For fans of garlic-dill flavours, this infused vodka will punch up your savoury cocktail game! Get your pickle fix in drinks like the Caesar, Bloody Mary, dirty martini or any pickle-tinis or pickle-ritas with the tangy-briny highlights of our Dill PIckled Vodka.

The Dill Pickled Vodka is made by naturally infusing our award winning Vital Vodka with local garlic and dill.Cocktails made with this special vodka pair well with salty snacks and dishes, plus an unlimited assortment of garnishes including sour cornichons, grilled prawns, and crispy bacon! 

BC SPIRITS NOTES

I think that Roots and Wings has changed the way I think about flavored vodkas. This is another home run with big garlic and crushed dill on the nose then balanced off with fresh and bright vodka on the palate. If you love your caesars, you need this!

Alcohol - 40% / 80 Proof

Color - Light gold

Nose - Punchy garlic and dill on the nose, pungent and savory

Taste - Much more subtle on the palate than expected from the nose, that beautiful round and savory vodka is in the front with the dill and garlic flowing through to the back

Finish - Strong garlic and dill with hints of the base vodka

Best Enjoyed - Caesar for sure

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #188 - Ampersand Distilling Imperative Dry Vermouth

DISTILLERY NOTES

Imperative Dry Vermouth is made from organic Ortega & Auxerrois grapes from the Saanich Peninsula and fortified with Ampersand’s Per Se Vodka, made from organic BC grown wheat. The botanicals include wormwood grown on Ampersand’s farm, and roasted dandelion root, chamomile, marjoram, and orange peel.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

Amazing vermouth from Ampersand Distilling and Rathjen Cellars,  aromatic, bright, clean botanicals balanced with fantastic wine structure  This is a must have for the martini lovers, grab the gin from Ampersand and your set.

Alcohol - 18% / 36 proof

Color - Medium Gold

Nose - Sweet wine forward with hints of herbs in the background

Taste - Complex deep herbal notes, very root forward profile balancing the hints of sweetness in the wine profile.

Finish - Very dry finish, chewy with the herbal notes lingering long after

Best Enjoyed - This was made for Martinis, grab a bottle of the Ampersand Gin as well

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #187 - Bespoke Spirit House Gin No. 5

DISTILLERY NOTES

While we finish recipe development on Jezebel Gin, we have a limited release! No.5.

Representing our fifth play with botanical arrangements. A citrus forward, soft juniper gin.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

A limited edition gin from a relative newcomer to the scene, Bespoke Spirit House. Huge citrus on the nose leads through to subtle but complex palate with botanicals balancing off soft classic juniper and that citrus punch from the aroma. 

Alcohol - 44% / 88 Proof

Color - Clear

Nose - Bright notes of grapefruit and yuzu peel, sweet, candied and acidic

Taste - Soft juniper and botanicals, loads of citrus notes with fragrant floral finish. Classic PNW Gin

Finish - Strong fragrant citrus

Best Enjoyed - On the rocks with a splash of tonic

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #186 - Roots and Wings Old Fashioned Spirit

DISTILLERY NOTES

The Old Fashioned is a one of our special, limited released whiskey-based blended spirits.

We've taken our young whiskey, Rebel, and expertly married it with sugar and bitters in classic Old Fashioned style, then tucked it away in a barrel for months so the flavours can romance each other into a perfectly harmonized spirit. Enjoy over ice and garnish with orange zest and a cherry on top!

BC SPIRITS NOTES

Initially skeptical at this but once I tasted it, I knew Rebekah from Roots & Wings had knocked it out of the park again. Rebel’s youthful aromas on the nose but once you taste it, the balance of bitters and sweetness is perfect especially at 40% abv. For entertaining or if you are just not in the mood, this is a perfect old fashioned sub. 

Alcohol - 40% / 80 Proof

Color - Deep brown

Nose - Corn forward notes from the youthful Rebel

Taste - Balanced sweet, bitter, spirit mix especially at 40%. Youthful Rebel spirit with deep and complex bitterness and perfectly balanced sweetness

Finish - Classic old fashioned

Best Enjoyed - Poured on the rocks, stirred with an orange twist

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #185 - DeVine Distillery Moderna Vermouth

DISTILLERY NOTES

This modern take on the original Turin, Italy Vermouth combines Vancouver Island white wine with our own craft spirit. Aromatized with more than 30 dierent botanicals. A useful aperitif and a friend of digestion for hundreds of years; enjoyed neat or as a brilliant addition to cocktails everywhere.

In a single sip, one may taste familiar flavours of orange, clove, cardamom, rose, and juniper, or such obscurities as wormwood, gentian, and dittany of crete.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

Very complex, balanced with dry and sweet vermouth from DeVine Distillery. This takes me back to tasting vermouth in Italy, little villages and regions with their own styles and flavors. Play around with this, Woods Spirit Co Amaro and gin of your choice in a Negroni variation.

Alcohol - 18% / 36 Proof

Color - Deep red brick brown

Nose - Hints of wine notes with complex herbal overtones

Taste - Structured and huge mouthfeel with the bold wine back bone, then flowing into balanced and complex herbal notes and finishing with a strong bitterness

Finish - Long textural wine back bone with strong bitter finish

Best Enjoyed - In a Negroni variation

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #184 - Pemberton Distillery Ginger and Wild Honey

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What a fantastic little liqueur from Pemberton Distillery. There local sourced Ginger and Wild Honey Liqueur, sweet and spicy ginger is balanced perfectly with fresh honeycomb rich honey. Perfect for hot toddy’s in winter. 

Alcohol - 25% / 50 Proof

Color - Light gold

Nose - Sweet ginger with a hint of honeycomb

Taste - Sweet and spicy ginger with hint of real honeycomb honey, then finally subtle flavors of the classic Pemberton potato spirit

Finish - Lingering sweet and spicy ginger balanced with honeycomb

Best Enjoyed - In a hot toddy

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #183 - Montis Distilling North Vodka

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Coming to the end of tasting through the Montis Distilling line up. The North Vodka is a very soft and fruity on the nose, I can see where the Alpenglow Gin gets that aroma. On the palate, soft, supple almost fruity with a clean and full finish. 

Alcohol - 40% / 80 Proof

Color - Clear

Nose - Fruity on the nose, almost hints of vanilla

Taste - Fruity, subtle vanilla, hints of classic grains, big mouthfeel, minimal burn

Finish - Fruitiness continues and the grain moves forward

Best Enjoyed - Ice cold neat

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #182 - Odd Society Oaken Honey Barrel

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I’m sorry I’m advance when you watch this episode, but you probably can’t get this from Odd Society. Their Wallflower Gin finished in Honey Barrels is amazing, floral honey notes with subtle oak undertones

Alcohol - 44% / 88 Proof

Color - Rich honey orange

Nose - Classic floral and high notes of citrus from the Wallflower with hints of honey undertones that creep up

Taste - Citrusy buzz of the Wallflower Gin flows through to hints of subtle oak and finishes with fresh honey in the finish

Finish - Honeyed, floral citrus Wallflower Gin with just a kiss of subtle oak

Best Enjoyed - Bee Knee’s

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #181 - Shelter Point Double Barreled Whisky

DISTILLERY NOTES

Our fifth Double Barreled whisky is a special collaboration with Vancouver Island’s renowned Coastal Black Winery. We hand-selected six of our finest Single Malt & Single Grain whisky casks and finished them in French oak wine barrels, previously home to Coastal Black’s Blackberry Wine. Aged in our American oak for 6 years, and then finished for 75 days in flavourful French oak, Shelter Point Double Barreled Whisky is a sensational marriage of spirits.

BC SPIRITS NOTES

I think by now, you all know my absolute devotion and love for the Shelter Point. I haven’t had a bad whisky yet, this is their 5th batch of this style; finished in Coastal Black blackberry wine French oak casks for 75 days. On the nose, classic Shelter Point with a hint of what else is in store in that rich vanilla, fruity wine aromas. On the palate, the whisky stands up and leans into their classic stone fruit, cut hay, old wood into a fruity sweet medley of earthy blackberry and spicy vanilla.

Alcohol - 46% / 92 Proof

Color - Dark caramel brown

Nose - Classic Shelter Point, stone fruit, cut hay and old wood with a hint of French oak and sweet fruit

Taste - Spiced vanilla French oak in the front, leading to that classic Shelter Point palate and finishing with balanced sweet and tannic blackberry wine notes.

Finish - Long and complex notes of oak and fruit

Best Enjoyed - Neat

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #180 - Roots and Wings Peachy Keen Vodka

DISTILLERY NOTES

This summer in a bottle! We have taken our Vital Vodka and infused it with a Peach Rooibos tea. There are no sugars added or caffeine; so this is a perfect guilt free tasty cocktail ... just add water and ice! Recommended 1 part Peachy Keen Vodka to 3 to 4 parts water. 

BC SPIRITS NOTES

Definitely not my usual tipple but the Roots and Wings Peachy Keen Vodka beats out those nasty HeyY’Alls any day of the week. Real peach and black tea balanced out with that sweet and round mouthfeel of their classic vodka. Throw 10 oz in a jug, 10oz lemon juice, 5oz simple syrup and top with soda, done.

Alcohol - 40% / 80 Proof

Color - Dark brewed tea

Nose - Fresh peach, hints of tea and sweet corn spirit

Taste - Fruity peach in the front, then the rich and mouth filling notes of their classic vodka and then finishing with tannic and aromatic black tea

Finish - Long black tea notes with hints of fruity peach

Best Enjoyed - As above

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BC Spirits "Spirit a Day" #179 - Montis Distilling Alpenglow Gin

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Now I don’t know much about Montis Distilling Alpenglow Gin but boy is it unique. Fruity sweetness and candied citrus on the nose which follows through on the palate. Rich and supple with a fruity sweetness that I can’t put my finger on, complex botanical undertones and long lingering flavors.

Alcohol - 45% / 90 Proof

Color - Clear

Nose - Candied citrus and piney juniper

Taste - Fruity sweet notes, hints of piney juniper, almost vanilla softness to the whole palate

Finish - Long candied citrus and juniper

Best Enjoyed - Gin Martini with Beaufort Vermouth

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