Rite Aid offers a variety of beer, wine, and spirits at great prices. Lord Calvert Canadian Whisky, imported by Luxco, is now available in a limited edition decanter that looks like a dog with a dead duck hanging. The budget Canadian whisky is made with rye, corn, wheat, and barley and is owned by Beam, who acquired it from Seagram’s in 1991. Lord Calvert Black Whisky, a 3 year old blend, is expected to arrive in select markets this spring.
For over half a century, Lord Calvert has reigned as a beloved classic among whiskey enthusiasts worldwide. Distilled and aged in the heart of Canada, this spirit claims to be a “blend of choice matured whiskies”. Named after Lord Calvert, who was a real person, the first Lord Baltimore, Lord Calvert is a blend of apple, herbs, honey, and a soft, light texture. It provides a mild oak and sherry essence with a smooth finish.
To purchase Lord Calvert, a government-issued ID is required and customers must be 21 years of age or older. Rite Aid Pharmacy offers products and services to help people lead a healthy, happy life. The Lord Calvert Canadian Whisky, 750 ml, is priced at USD$9.98 when purchased online.
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Thank you so much for doing this show! I haven’t ventured into the Canadian territory aside from the likes of Crown Royal, CC, Seagram’s 7 and VO (I really like VO and Ginger Ale with a lime as my go to Summer whiskey cocktail). I always thought of these Canadian whiskey’s as being kind of light and one-dimensional, so I’m very glad to hear that I was wrong. I put these on my list of bottles to look for in the future and can’t wait to try them. Thanks again!
I am glad that you tried some of the whiskeys that our great country has to offer. I am particularly glad that you tasted Lot 40 as this has won a bunch of blind tastings alone, but the “Big Brother” version of it Lot 40 Dark Oak is an over the top beauty right at the top of my list of best ryes period. I find it so good that I have stopped putting it into blinds as it always seems to win. The Alberta Premium Cask Strength is of no surprise to me that you loved it as it won whiskey of the year in 2021 at San Francisco……still not available to me where I live in Canada so I can’t make a comment yet. As always, I love your show. Keep up the good work. And my vote is for you never to advertise. That has put me off other shows. Just my opinion.
It’s always been such a bummer to me that all we seem to get in the States is bottom shelf Canadians. One of my local stores got two Canadian IBs called Found North recently though – both 16 year age stated, mashbills right on the label (batch 1 is 66% rye, 30% corn, 4% barley. Batch 2 is 80% corn 20% rye), both cask strength, both fantastic. Spendy at ~$130 each but I love seeing better options starting to come down here from Canada.
Pike Creek is from Ontario (Corby’s-i.e. Hiram Walker), highly doubtful it is 100% Rye grain, blended mash bill. Lot 40 no longer uses the 90 unmalted/10 malted mash bill. 100% unmalted recipe since 2016. AP CS is about 4-5 years old. I have an old release of AP that is 30 years but sadly 80 proof. The older Lot 40 11 and 12 year cask strength bottles were the ones to get as well as the Wiser’s 23 year CS among many others that are not available or difficult to come by outside of Canada. Cheers!
I’ll need to try the Pendleton again. When I really started getting into brown liquors back in early 2017 it was one of my first pours, so it has a bit of sentimental value for me. Of course, my inexperience may have been the primary reason for liking it. I haven’t had it in awhile, but I will say I do enjoy the Pendleton Rye. Perhaps you won’t like that either but there’s something about its easy drinking style (and price point, of course) that I really like. Cheers.
You guys are great—-a breath of fresh air on the whiskey scene—-but please please please don’t go down the advertisement path, or you’ll just be another boring website. Again, and as always, I truly appreciate your honest reviews. You’re not apologetic about expressing your genuine opinions; a commendable trait in my book. Please keep up the great work, and we’ll see about the Patreon idea.
Nice article! I don’t have many Canadian but Lot 40 and Alberta Premium is great. My other favorites are Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye ($35). Similar to the Lot 40 but a bit more punch (45% vs 43%). Also Crown Royal Barrel Select has a higher corn mash bill and 50% ABV. Reminds me of Nikka Coffey Grain.
Thanks for the solid coverage on Canadian Whisky. You covered a few of my favourite bottles. Are you e struggling or put off by the fact that Canadian Whisky masters have few limitations on what they can do? Treat it like wine where part of the fun is exploring the creative expressions and finding your own treasures.
Thanks for the input on the Canadians with Rye Mash Bills. I’ll have to look at those. A suggestion: how about doing a review on the $20 and under Canadians? These are very popular in the Northeast where I am from, especially in the wintertime, and their main use is as a mixer for cocktails (Manhattans in particular) and EggNogs. I know they don’t necessarily have the snob appeal, but they are the hot sellers. This is a wholly different category than Bourbons, and the person buying a Canadian usually gets it in a 1.75 liter size to make sure they have enough on hand for the holiday party events. Or for the Uncle who will drink nothing but Manhattans (yes, I had one of those).
Love the down to earth authentic and honest presentation of the products in your articles! Agreed 100% on the Alberta Premium. Beautiful product in every way. Have to ask how Crown Royal missed your 5 completely? It’s the proverbial Canadian flagship and has a few excellent products especially above the baseline. The Black, XO, XR, Reserve are all superior products even at the primarily 80 proof bottling ( except for the Black @ 90 ) Give a couple a try when you get a chance. Thanks for pointing out some excellent lesser known products!
I was a big fan of Pendleton when it first came out but then it seemed to disappear from shelves and when it came back it was just not good anymore. I do like the Pendleton 1910 however; although the $40 price tag it too high for what it is. Hood River Distilleries is well known for producing cheap liquor and I feel that their quantity over quality has infected what the original Pendleton was supposed to be. Cheers!
To be bluntly honest, I didn’t know that Canada produced good rye whiskey. I grew up in southeast Michigan right across the river from Windsor and Amherstburg, with some family still in the Amherstburg area. All we ever saw was Canadian Club, VO, etc… I’m glad to see that there are good rye whiskeys coming out of Canada. That Lot 40 is appealing. Hopefully, my local store carries this brand.
Glad to see your impression on Canadian Whiskey. My few experiences with it leads to me say, it may be good as a light mixer, but not a straight up sippin whiskey. I find the nose and pallet about as empty as a glass of spring water. I noticed Canadian Club is not on your list 🙂 Lot 40 sounds interesting and worth a try for my preferences.
Wow! I haven’t delved much into the Canadian whiskeys and hadn’t even given them much thought. Excited to learn there are some real gems out there! Thanks for another terrific article, Kurt! I am Patreon supporter #2! I’m excited to see where your website goes, and I’m thrilled to have been there from almost the beginning. Don’t ever change!
Thanks for the tip on Pendleton. Lot 40 is pretty good. Haven’t tried the others. On Alberta Premium we’ll have to agree to disagree. I guess you hadn’t tried Alberta Premium when you filmed your “5 bourbons I regret buying” because when I listed Alberta Premium as a whiskey I regret buying….you agreed “100%”.
Run of the mill Canadian is for mixing, not for sipping. I’ve always been surprised that so much blended Canadian all just tastes like toffee . Why is that sweet flavor profile cultivated by so many? But the good stuff can be sublime; the recent marketing trend has been to isolate and present the “flavoring whiskeys” that are paired with the column-distilled grain. Lot 40 is a good example, and Crown Royal is putting out some in their “Noble” series. Canadian rye is first rate, distilled with a 100% rye “mashbill” as per the Canadian tradition of distilling grains separateliy and marrying the results.
Masterton’s is a worthy Canadian that should be considered for the next Rye comparison and can hold its own against either domestic or imported ones. Please give this a try and I’m sure you will not be disappointed. The Alberta Premium deserves a comparison against the top brands like the Willett, Parker”s Heritage, Whistle Pig(a Canadian derivative) and Pikesville.
Lot 40 is my go to always, if you can get your hands on the Dark Oak or the Peated Quarter Cask I highly recommend them, also Signal Hill is one of my favorites, Canadian Club makes a beautiful 100% Rye that is dirt cheap that if you like rye you should deffinelty pick up if you can get it. Another one of my favorite Canadians you should try is Bearface out of British Columbia, such a good pour. Thanks for doing Canadian most people only get to try our bottom shelf stuff, Crown isn’t terrible and they have some good bottles but we have some amazing whiskeys that I hope people get to try and one point or another.
Picked up the Alberta Premium Cask Strength Rye Whisky for $63.99 and I’m tempted to go back and buy the other 2 bottles on shelf. Really great Rye whiskey and even with the massive proof it is very drinkable neat. There are a ton of flavors on that whiskey and it’s something I want to keep in stock to share with friends. The only problem with the bottle… it looks like a cheap whiskey. Absolutely dunks on Caribou Crossing. Dunks on most American ryes, too.
Wow! You nailed it on the head regarding ads. I’ve stopped perusal multiple websites because they’ve become running ads. I will consider supporting your website because you’re not going to bore me with ads on top of the YouTube adds. Thank You!!’ I enjoy your website. I am curious about Canadian Whiskies, but I don’t want to waste money. This article helps. I don’t like that Canada allows up to 10% of additives to be added to their whiskey. I’ve heard good things about Crown Royal ultra aged Rye. I’ve been looking for such a bottle, but no luck yet.
I have not re-tried any Canadian Whiskey since fully diving into my whiskey journey, but I’m definitely on board to try the Unity. Just wondering, have you tried the “Blanton’s” of Canadian Whiskies, Caribou Crossing? It was a limited table offering at my local superstore (1 selection from the table…I picked the only Jameson 18 year instead), and I was curious about…it disappeared QUICKLY.
Lot 40 for the win. It’s my only repeat purchase for Canadian whisky and an all-time favorite. Cask strength before I die, please. Never even seen Unity. At $18, the Forty Creek Reserve definitely punched above its weight, but it wasn’t for me. Too sweet maybe? It came highly recommended to me from a friend who’s more typically into high-end scotch. Go figure. Jim Murray once licked a stamp with LSD on it and picked Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye as the Best Whiskey in the World. (I’ll wait till everyone stops laughing.) It’s a perfectly good rye, esp when Total Wine gave it away for a few years at $16. It reminded me of MGP’s 95% rye. It was good neat and great for mixing. A world-beater? Come on, man! 🙂 I’d grab that Alberta Premium in a heartbeat. Don’t see premium Canadian whisky here in KY.
I would like you to review the Whiskey of the Year 2016 Northern Harvest Rye (Crown Royal) or Winter Harvest if it’s not available. J.P. Wisers Triple barrel or Kask Finished, also award winners. There are smaller distilleries up here as well that are fighting with the Scots over the name of their Single Malt Whiskey in Nova Scotia. Our Whiskey’s win blind taste tests around the world but get little respect it seems on the world stage. Look into Glen Breton or Glenora Distillery for a unique single malt from Canada.
40 Creek Copper Pot is an excellent Canadian whiskey for the price. Lot 40 is terrific. Have never seen Pendleton, but I live in Eastern Canada so it might be available out west. An excellent one is a Rye from Okanagan Spirits Craft Distillery. At 80 proof and $60 can. for a 750ml. I buy it on line and they ship. Some of the Wiser products, with the blue and green labels are very good, along with some of the Gibson products. Check em out.
Nice article. I’m not a Canadian whisky guy at all. I’m 100% with you on the regular Pendleton. About half my buddies love the stuff and I just don’t get it. That said, if you see the Pendleton 1910 rye don’t let your experience with the regular stuff put you off of it. It’s 40 bucks in my market, sometimes 30 on sale and I quite enjoyed the bottle I got as a gift some time back (never would have bought it due to my opinion on the regular stuff but I’d certainly consider buying it now). Based on my experience with 1910 and your article here, I’m staring to think maybe our neighbors to the north need to just stick with high rye bills. Cheers.
Before I discovered the Alberta Premium cask strength, the Lot 40 was my favourite Canadian whisky. Generally, I have avoided Canadian whiskies, but over the past couple of years, I’ve been discovering some stunning Canadian juice as I ignore the big players and explore the independents. Unfortunately, you can’t get a lot of it even across Canada, let alone internationally. If you ever come across something by Two Brewers or Shelter Point. Buy it. Period.
I want to try more Canadian whiskeys but, despite being right next door in Maine, I can’t seem to find very many. Of the six in this episode, all I can get here are Pendleton’s (agree it’s not that good) and Lot 40, which I’ve only seen a couple of times and haven’t tried yet. Hopefully our selection will improve going forward.
I want to share a couple of Canadian Whiskey that you must try. Found North Cask Strength 18yr Bourbon aged in Hungarian Oak (Mashbill 80% corn, 19% rye and 1% barley) 62.4% abv and Found North Cask Strength 17yr Rye aged in American oak (mashbill 64% rye, 32% corn and 4% barley) 55.1% abv. These two bottles are OUTSTANDING!!
Too bad you could not get your hands on some of the many craft whiskies available, mostly through private liquor stores or direct from the distillery, here in BC, Canada. But of the ones you have I must admit that I enjoy the Forty Creek products, even the low end are decent and I do enjoy the Copper Pot.
Alberta premium is definitely a great whiskey it is my favourite. As far as age if it’s a Canadian whiskey by law in Canada it has to be 5 years aged in barrel. Forty creek does make a lot of great whiskey. I’m glad you didn’t include the ol standby Crown Royal it is a good premium whiskey but I feel it’s over hyped. I do enjoy the white label Wisers it’s just a great tasting whiskey you can mix it or drink it straight. I’ve never had Lot 40 I’m not sure if it’s available in my province
I live in Denmark EU and for 60 years – since my visit to US west coast – I have searched stores for the Alberta Premium Rye 25 yrs. but in vain. I have written to Canada just to be told by the shops in Alberta that bottles are not to be sent cross the borders. Can you assist, pls. and I will find money for purchase and delivery.
Been really enjoying the website and the humour and family connections of the basement bar. Myself and a few friends have had whiskey tasting Thursdays for a number of years, and dry January for over 30 years now. I live within crawling distance of Forty Creek, and have had samples and bottles of their various specials and versions for years, as well as dozens of your bourbons and whiskeys over the years. We get many you don’t, but you get lots we don’t….and we all dream of sipping Pappy one day. Thanks for tipping me off to Old Forester…even with the exchange rate, a deal, easily available in basic form, and a solid performer. We developed a way of rating our available choices, which we call the Gretzky Scale, after the Wayne Gretzky Red Cask Whiskey we can get here. In essence, sub $40, a whiskey should be as good or better than the Gretzky to be a regular shelf item in our bars. The next level is sub $80, with Basil Hayden as the benchmark, and above that are those ones we only occasionally will buy, but few have ever been bought more than once at that level. With exchange rates, your numbers would likely be about 75% of our levels. That first one you put on the bar I wouldn’t call a Canadian Whiskey, I’ve never seen it up here, and after your comments, I am happy about that! If you ever see Bearface, it recently passed the Gretzky scale….
You’ll have to try some classic Canadian Black Velvet – it does wonders for cleaning barnacles off the bottom of your boat I’m not being metaphorical here,. There might be fans of it out there, but in my experience, it’s really only fit as an industrial solvent, or for people who’ve hit absolute rock bottom.
Love the article! Honestly it’s seemingly very difficult for me to get into Canadian Whiskey for 1 simple reason: the rules on Canadian Whiskey are pretty loose. Bourbon, Scotch, Irish, and now (starting in 2024) Japanese Whiskies all have solid rules in place of on how it’s labeled and what can/can’t be added. My Canadian Whiskey issues are: 1) No rye in the mash bill but can still be labeled as a Rye Whiskey 2) They can add 9.09 percent of flavoring/bourbon/neutral grain or other products to their whiskey as long as it “maintains the characteristics of Canadian Whiskey.” I’ve looked but haven’t found a distillery in Canada that discloses any of that on the bottle (not that they have to, why would they). These are my trust issues with Canadian Whiskey.
Sorry to hear about your experience with the Pendleton. I have never had that particular one, but I have had the Pendleton Rye and it is quite nice. If you ever get the chance give it a try sometime. I’m sure you won’t be disappointed. Some of my friends from the Dakota’s turned me on to it. Very smooth.