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Pike Creek 10 Year Old Rum Finish Canadian Whisky 750ml

$81.00 $68.85

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Pike Creek 10-Year-Old is a top-notch Canadian whisky that gets treated to a finishing period in rum barrels before bottling. Excellent stuff, and great value-for-money, too. This rum-finished whisky is a departure from Pike Creeks signature spirit. For this 10 year expression, after the whisky has matured in used bourbon barrels, it is finished for several months in ex-rum casks. The rum barrels impart a distinctive sweetness onto the spirit.

Pike Creek is another in a spate of Canadian whisky brand revivals along with Lot 40 and Gooderham & Worts from Corby Distillers. From 2012 until 2016 or so, Pike Creek was available as a 10-year-old Port Finish edition in Canada and a Port Finish edition in the US which is only aged 7 years, although this is not disclosed on the label. The US version is younger because the producer felt that demand for the new brand would outstrip supply.

Pike Creek is a Windsor, Ontario suburb that is home to Hiram Walker’s warehouses. The whisky made its celebrated return to store shelves in 2012 when it was re-released with the previously extinct Lot 40. The Canadian release of Pike Creek is a 10-year-old rye whisky aged in white oak barrels then finished in port pipes. This Pike Creek expression takes that same 10-year-old rye whisky, jacks up the ABV to 42%, and adds a splash of rye to the corn whisky blend. Then, instead of port pipes, it’s finished in rum barrels.

Nose:

Piercing nose tickle, surprising for such a low ABV. The initial impression is of fruit punch with artificial sweetener in it. Saccharine, sticky, and cloying. Next, you realize the nose tickle smells like repulsive bottom-shelf vodka mixed with nail polish remover. The fruit is one-dimensional and smells of fruit-flavored candy rather than actual fruit.

Palate:

Syrupy body. Mild tongue burn. There is a wood note (oak sugars) which is welcome, but the cheap vodka flavor invades quickly, as does the aspartame and candy notes.

Finish:

Medium-long, unfortunately. Warming, with a little bit of caramel and oak mixed with the unrelenting vodka notes. Finishes with a bit of port wine, which finally tastes slightly like something real. This is, however, marred by the sudden appearance of charcoal bitterness, which is all that remains when the finish fades.

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Pike Creek 10 Year Old Rum Finish Canadian Whisky 750ml $81.00 $68.85
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