The whisky became very popular and a back bar favourite at many a gentlemen’s club in the US and Canada, thus the name ‘Club Whisky’ was born. But Alberta Distillers has been perfecting the craft of making excellent rye whisky for over 70 years.

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Canadian Club was a frequent product placement in the AMC show Mad Men, often being the drink of choice for the main character Don Draper. If you provide your Aeroplan member number we also will use LCBO purchases made using this number to customize the communications and offers you receive. Walker originally positioned the whisky as a premium liquor, pitching it not only on its smoothness and purity but also its five-year oak barrel aging. This whisky is truly unique and deliciously distinct, with caramel and oak notes up front, followed by a spicy finish. It was created in the heart of Alberta’s unforgiving rye country, by a team who have spent the last 60 years mastering the art of distilling with rye.During the Whisky War between Canada and Denmark, Canadian Club was the usual bottle left by the Canadians. Sadly for this rare bottle, it has lived quite a life and acquired a fair amount of dirt, a tear and potential liquid damage to the label. Each whisky is aged in either first-fill bourbon barrels (which are charred, white American oak barrels) or Canadian whisky barrels. This rare, antique bottle has been looked after rather well over the years (as you would, wouldn't you?

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A print ad for the drink would serve as inspiration [7] for the pre-title sequence of the 1977 Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me. At one point, the Walkers employed almost the entire population of Walkerville, where they built police and fire stations, brought in running water and installed street lights.

During the years of Prohibition, one of the distillery's most important clients was Chicago gangster Al Capone, who smuggled in thousands of cases of Canadian Club via a route from Windsor to Detroit. The Mount Kilimanjaro case was not discovered until a Dutch journalist happened upon it in the mid-1970s. Pouring a medium gold you will find aromas of roasted almond, vanilla and pepper; with spicy vanilla, cornflakes and a faint nutty flavour on a medium weight palate with a long finish. Our three different aged whiskies are blended to taste creating the unique final taste profiles of CC TM 1858, Classic ® 12 Year Old, and Reserve 9 Year Old. The nose is of medium-body with notes of barley sugar and aniseed, notes of cut grass and fennel, a hint of straw and a vegetal freshness.