Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye took centre stage last year after being named best whisky of 2015 by Jim Murray. While it’s old news, we don’t get to try many Canadian whiskies in Europe so I thought I had to grab the opportunity.

According to his website, Murray tried batch L5085N3 (at last he discloses this kind of information). I’m trying a batch which was bottled one and a half months later, reasonably close!

Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye (45%, OB 2015, L5132R7)

Nose: pleasant, with vanilla, apple pie and ripe banana, as well as prominent hint of...