Crown Royal Canadian Whisky

Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye

Crown Royal reports that this whisky contains 90% rye content, and has not disclosed the grain content of the remaining 10% of the whisky. The reviewed bottle with serial number 003105408466 has been open for 7 days and is half full Nose: quite a fragrant very dark-fruity nose of medium pitch mostly, smooth and quite soft and rounded. There is...

Score 81/100

Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye

What little credit whiskyguru Jim Murray and his Whisky Bible still enjoyed, melted like snow in the sun when he named this Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye Best Whisky in the World in 2016. I was not even curious enough to go find a bottle or a sample. But when my buddy Robert from Canada sent me a box of samples, this was included. Well, it...

Score 78/100

Crown Royal Reserve

I now have only one more CR left in the range to try - the Black - hopefully I will be able to get to that one soon and complete my work with this brand! It has a beautiful deep red amber colour - clearly a richer and fuller whisky than the standard CR. The nose is spicy with nutmeg and cloves, and gives of oaky rye notes, enveloped by caramel....

Score 73/100

Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye

Well, here it is, the most debated whisky of 2016 thanks to Jim Murray and his 97.5 point rating. Nose: definitely herbal. Also noticing barbeque sauce (?). Slight pine resin. Quite fragrant, almost perfumed yet not exactly sweet. Potent and herbaceous. Taste: follows through on the aroma with concentrated rye flavours, mostly of the dried-herb...

Score 85/100