Crown Royal Special Reserve

Crown Royal Limited Edition

Now comes something quite unique, from a sample courtesy of @paddockjudge. Crown Royal Limited Edition is one of the few Canadian whiskies that is only available in Canada, so it is something we can truly call our own (and only our own). This particular sample, however, comes from a bottle with a 1975 tax stamp! And what makes this particularly...

Score 95/100

Crown Royal Blender's Select

For those who fancy they don't like Canadian whisky, this bottling is unlikely to change your mind. For the rest who enjoy it but feel it has more to offer, this one just might be worth exploring. On the nose it is distinctly Canadian but with greater emphasis on spicy oak and grain. Vanilla is there but so too is ginger and polished wood. Pine...

Score 81/100

Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye

A combination of the changing market of consumers and the rye craze has brought out some new interesting Canadian whiskies. Crown Royal has released 2 new whiskies, one being its Northern Harvest Rye and another its Hand Selected Single Barrel - the first being a 90% rye whisky and the second equivalent to a very high rye mashbill bourbon in terms...

Score 93/100

Crown Royal Black

I suppose the upstanding folks at Diageo expect us to attribute the dark colour of Crown Royal Black to the charred casks it is aged in. Notice they don't come right out and say it, but simply imply the connection. Frightening colour aside, how does this stuff taste? The short answer is "pretty good." On the nose it definitely resembles...

Score 79/100