Macaloney's Island Distillery

Kildara

46% ABV โ€ข Whisky โ€ข 750ml โ€ข Sold Out

Single Pot Still Whiskey from BC in Canada

$114.70 + tax and deposit

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PRODUCER
Macaloney's Island Distillery

BOTTLER
Official Distillery Release by Macaloney's Island Distillery

AGE
Unknown Years Aged

CASK TYPE
Kentucky Bourbon, Spanish Oloroso, Virgin American, Spanish Pedro Ximรฉnez

RELEASE
Standard

CHILL-FILTRATION
No

ADDED COLOUR
No

PEAT SMOKED
No

From The Official Website

This island whisky is from our triple distilled single potstill range รข triple distilled using only the best unmalted and malted barley available. The patient, yet purposeful, triple distillation produces a complex, layered and balanced new-make spirit. Dr. Swan described our original new-make which trickles off our copper pot stills as ‘the best that I have tasted in any distillery at this stage, super fruity.’ This triple-distillate is even smoother and fruitier!

Kildara, our Whiskymaker’s Signature Expression, was married from a select combination of Kentucky Bourbon, Spanish Oloroso, virgin American, and Spanish Pedro Ximรฉnez (PX) casks. The result is a full bodied, triple distilled single potstill, island whisky with pronounced Oloroso and PX notes including dried fruit cake, vanilla crรจme laced with cinnamon, demerara sugar, and old seasoned leather notes. Abundant tropical fruits include candied orange, dried apricot, figs, ripe blackberries, blackcurrant jam, dried raisins and roasted nuts. The complexity continues with barley, malt and dried hay, butterscotch, milk chocolate, light tobacco and ocean breeze.

The palate is velvety-soft, resplendent with full bodied Sherry and tropical fruit. Oatmeal develops to oak spices, coffee, dark chocolate orange, nectarines, stewed plums, blackcurrant, red currant and sultanas, coming together as sweet dark fruitcake and honey. The finish presents dried fruit with a hint of salt and dulse, lingering oak and more Sherry, ending with hazelnut and almond raspberry pie with a drizzle of dark chocolate.

Kildara won ‘World’s Best Pot Still Whisky’ at the prestigious 2023 World Whiskies Awards.

From The Official Website

This island whisky is from our triple distilled single potstill range รข triple distilled using only the best unmalted and malted barley available. The patient, yet purposeful, triple distillation produces a complex, layered and balanced new-make spirit. Dr. Swan described our original new-make which trickles off our copper pot stills as ‘the best that I have tasted in any distillery at this stage, super fruity.’ This triple-distillate is even smoother and fruitier!

Kildara, our Whiskymaker’s Signature Expression, was married from a select combination of Kentucky Bourbon, Spanish Oloroso, virgin American, and Spanish Pedro Ximรฉnez (PX) casks. The result is a full bodied, triple distilled single potstill, island whisky with pronounced Oloroso and PX notes including dried fruit cake, vanilla crรจme laced with cinnamon, demerara sugar, and old seasoned leather notes. Abundant tropical fruits include candied orange, dried apricot, figs, ripe blackberries, blackcurrant jam, dried raisins and roasted nuts. The complexity continues with barley, malt and dried hay, butterscotch, milk chocolate, light tobacco and ocean breeze.

The palate is velvety-soft, resplendent with full bodied Sherry and tropical fruit. Oatmeal develops to oak spices, coffee, dark chocolate orange, nectarines, stewed plums, blackcurrant, red currant and sultanas, coming together as sweet dark fruitcake and honey. The finish presents dried fruit with a hint of salt and dulse, lingering oak and more Sherry, ending with hazelnut and almond raspberry pie with a drizzle of dark chocolate.

Kildara won ‘World’s Best Pot Still Whisky’ at the prestigious 2023 World Whiskies Awards.

Discover Macaloney's Island Distillery

Macaloney's Island Distillery

Whisky begins as beer, minus the hops, and at Macaloneyโ€™s Island that kinship is not a metaphor but a floor plan. On Enterprise Crescent in Saanich, just outside Victoria, the place presents itself as a working partnership between distillery and brewery, with grain, fermentation, and wood as the shared language. The stills are unmistakably Scottish in temperament: twin, tall Forsyths copper pot stills, the kind that invite patience and reward it with clarity.

The driving force is Dr. Graeme Macaloney, a Scot by upbringing and a fermentation specialist by training, who carried the long idea of a distillery across the Atlantic and then financed it in a modern, very Canadian way, with hundreds of founder-owners behind the project. In building the operation he sought out seasoned whisky minds, including the late Dr Jim Swan and former Diageo master distiller Mike Nicolson, and the result is a distillery that behaves less like a novelty and more like a thesis that happens to be drinkable.

Spirit style is explored in variations rather than slogans. Alongside classic single malt work, there is a clear affection for pot still whisky and for triple distillation, using both malted and unmalted barley. Peat is treated as a set of dialects: Islay peat appears in one chapter, Washington peat in another, and the distillery has even leaned into seaweed and kelp-inflected ideas in its more experimental bottlings. Maturation ranges widely, from ex-bourbon and virgin American oak to Spanish sherry casks and Portuguese red wine STR barriques, with international medals arriving as a brisk endorsement of the underlying technique.

Whisky Folk Review

Our club members sampled this in April 2025 at The Tournament Of Canadian Whiskies

The below is the average score out of 5 from our members, and the flavour profile which was voted to be the most prominent.

4.3โ˜…

Rich & Round

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