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- Category Canadian Whisky
- Country Canada
- Distillery Hiram Walker & Sons
- Age 12 Year Old
- Style Canadian Whisky
- Alcohol 40%*
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The first thing you need to know about Canadian Club is that it wasn’t even invented in Canada. Sure, it’s made there now, and that is an interesting story indeed. You see, the Whisky that would come to be known as Canadian Club was invented by a small distilling company called Gooderham and Worts from Detroit, all the way back in 1858. Hiram Walker was living nearby, making cider Whisky in the back of his grocery store and saw the potential, so the two companies merged with Walker as “the Man.”
When the dark times of Prohibition arrived, Walker picked up the entire operation and moved it across the lake, conveniently just across the Canadian border and changed the product’s name to what it is now. He even built an entire town called Walkerville, so that his employees could live near the new plant. If you are new to Canadian Club Whisky, think of it as a delicious love child between Scotch and Bourbon. Like Bourbon, it is a mix of grains with a high corn mash. Like Scotch, it adds a lot of barley. But what makes it a bit different is that they also use malted and unmalted Rye. This makes Canadian Club a bit fuller and more grain forward than Bourbon.
Canadian Club Classic 12 is… well, it’s their classic Whisky produced in smaller batches and aged for, you guessed it, 12 years. See? Whisky doesn’t HAVE to be complicated. Sometimes the simplest things are best.
- Category Canadian Whisky
- Country Canada
- Distillery Hiram Walker & Sons
- Age 12 Year Old
- Style Canadian Whisky
- Alcohol 40%*
Appearance / Color
Deep amber
Nose / Aroma / Smell
Creamy oatmeal with the sweetness of molasses
Flavor / Taste / Palate
Vanilla, caramel with nutmeg, pecans and granola
Finish
Long, lightly dry, with a hint of butterscotch on the tip
Deep amber
Nose / Aroma / Smell
Creamy oatmeal with the sweetness of molasses
Flavor / Taste / Palate
Vanilla, caramel with nutmeg, pecans and granola
Finish
Long, lightly dry, with a hint of butterscotch on the tip
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What does Canadian Club Classic 12 Year Old taste like?
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The Flavor Spiral™ shows the most common flavors that you'll taste in Canadian Club Classic 12 Year Old and gives you a chance to have a taste of it before actually tasting it.
We invented Flavor Spiral™ here at Flaviar to get all your senses involved in tasting drinks and, frankly, because we think that classic tasting notes are boring.
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Canadian Club
Classic 12 Year Old
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The Hiram Walker’s Distillery was one of the key suppliers during Prohibition, with Al Capone being one of their biggest customer. Records show Capone paid $7 for a case of Canadian Club and sold it in the US for $75.
The Canadian Club Distillery belongs to Pernod Ricard, but the brand and Spirit belongs to Beam Suntory.
They have 14 maturing warehouses currently storing 1.3 million barrels of Spirits.
Canadian Whisky was the best selling Liquor category in the US until as recently as 2010!
The Visitor Center is one of the oldest at any distillery in the world. It was opened for tours and tastings in 1894.
The saviour from the North. After the Prohibition, Canada was there for its American friends with the only barrels of aged Whisky around, and they made a killing.
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Dog Dogson's
Smartass corner
The Hiram Walker’s Distillery was one of the key suppliers during Prohibition, with Al Capone being one of their biggest customer. Records show Capone paid $7 for a case of Canadian Club and sold it in the US for $75.
The Canadian Club Distillery belongs to Pernod Ricard, but the brand and Spirit belongs to Beam Suntory.
They have 14 maturing warehouses currently storing 1.3 million barrels of Spirits.
Canadian Whisky was the best selling Liquor category in the US until as recently as 2010!
The Visitor Center is one of the oldest at any distillery in the world. It was opened for tours and tastings in 1894.
The saviour from the North. After the Prohibition, Canada was there for its American friends with the only barrels of aged Whisky around, and they made a killing.
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