Review #: 16
Description: Urban Whisky Canadian Single Malt
Spirit: Canadian Whisky
Background: This is a single malt offering from a Craft Distillery in British Columbia. Once again, I was traveling for work and found myself in Kelowna, BC and found this in a liquor store without much information known about it. So let’s dive in with reckless abandonment.
Distillery – Okanagan Valley Distillery
Bottler – Okanagan Valley Distillery
Brand – Urban Whisky
Selection – N/A
ABV – 40%
Age – NAS
Nose – Breakfast cereal, soured fruit
Taste – Bready, burnt wood, burnt caramel
Finish – Sugary sweetness, yeasty bread, baking spices
Score: 3
Would I buy a bottle? No
Thoughts: This is a bottle I picked up when I was staying in Kelowna, BC for a few days and wanted to grab something local. This bottle says that it is a single malt whiskey distilled in a copper still an bottled with a piece of french oak barrel to change the flavor as it sits in the bottle. The oak was added on October 16th, 2016, and I purchased around the summer of 2018, so it had some time there to take affect. Looking back on this bottle, by itself it wasn’t anything spectacular, but it lingers in my mind. I know a typical critique of bottles is to say “it would be a good cocktail whiskey” but I made some simple whiskey cokes with this and it has stuck in my mind. The whiskey has this delicious sugar, malty-ness that reminded me Frosted Flakes and just tasted really good with cola. However, for about $60, a bottle isn’t worth it just to make a sugary mixed drink.