MUST-TRY SPIRITS FOR HOLIDAY GIFTING
Cask-finished Bourbon American bourbon is famous for the luscious aromas and tastes of vanilla, caramel and baking spice it acquires from charred oak barrels. Time spent in other unique casks adds more flavours, like the complex layers of a bakery confection. Angel’s Envy is named for the “angel’s share” of evaporated spirit that scents maturation warehouses; in the case of Angel’s Envy Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, the imaginary angels might just have wings and lips stained ruby red from the time it spends in port wine barrels. For Christmas cake flavours and an amber hue, look to rich sherry-finished Legent Bourbon.
Angel’s Envy Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey USA $79.99 205144
From its wing-shaped bottle to the auburn tint from careful port wine aging, this bourbon is unique, with juicy orange peel and red berry flavours.
Collaboration Whiskies Every whisky-making nation boasts its own unique style and bottlings, but the global wizards from Suntory got creative. Its master blenders combine Japanese and world spirits for a complex global blend that will thrill fans of every whisky style. Suntory AO Blended World Whisky combines the boldness of bourbon, the smoothness of Canadian and Irish whiskies and the backbone of single malt Scotch with the elegance of Japanese whisky and blending. Another gift-worthy creative collaboration: BLACKENED’s mash-up of the band Metallica’s music by a master blender who uses its sound waves to mature rocking American whiskeys.
Suntory AO Blended World Whisky Japan $99.99 394984 AO’s blue label evokes the oceans that connect nations, and this complex blend of world whiskies has endlessly complex spice, fruit and toffee layers.
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