New Canadian Club 30 yr. “150th Anniversary”
June 9th, 2008A package showed up unexpectedly at the Malt Advocate office today from Beam Global. It turns out to be a sample of a 30 year old Canadian Club which will be released later this year. As far as I know, this is the oldest Canadian whisky ever released.
The purpose of this special release is to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Canadian Club. I see that it’s bottled at a standard 80 proof, but other than that I don’t know any more about the whisky. Until I try it, that is, which I hope to do this sometime this week. I’ll post up my thoughts afterwards.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I have a little more information on this product. It’s official name will be Canadian Club 30 year old, and it will retail for $150-$199, depending on the market. Release date: sometime this fall.
June 10th, 2008 at 9:05 am
CC’s current ad campaign uses the slogan “Damn right your dad drank it.” In the case of this particular 30 year old offering, that could, quite literally, be true! I went to their website and was surprised to find out that they offer whisky in 40%, 41.3%, and 50% strengths. Is anything but the 40% available here?
June 10th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I recently had a bottle of the 100 proof stuff. I believe it was a six year old. I think the PR company for CC gets an RSS feed of this blog, so if they are lurking out there, maybe they can respond in greater detail.