Alberta Premium Canadian Rye Whisky 70cl
The No.1 selling 100% rye whisky in the world*. An explosive taste that is bold with its own unique earthy character, made with 100% Canadian Prairie Rye and aged for a minimum of 5 years, Alberta Premium is the original 100% rye.
*IWSR 2017-2021; 2021 Case volumes: 340k 9-liter cases; December 7, 2022
You may have seen our products all across Canada, from Tofino, British Columbia to our home in Calgary, Alberta, and all the way to St. John’s, Newfoundland, so we are proud that our products are born from the best in Canadian prairie grains, grown by farmers who have worked with us for decades. These grains are carefully blended with water fed from the snow capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains to produce our award-winning liquids and their signature profiles.
We use one of three distillation processes to create our products, but the heart of who we are is our unique ability to distill with one hundred percent rye grains, and to this day remain one of the only distilleries who can create the bold and spicy flavour of a 100% rye whisky. Add our popular vodkas, distilled from Alberta wheat and chill-filtered for maximum smoothness, and we have an award-winning collection.
Great quality Canadian Whisky
About Alberta Premium
Alberta Premium (produced by Alberta Distillers Ltd, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is one of the few remaining 100% rye grain rye whiskies produced in North America. The brand is owned by Suntory Global Spirits, a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings of Osaka, Japan.
Alberta Premium won "Canadian Whisky of the Year" in Jim Murray's 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2021 Whisky Bibles.
Introduced in 1958, Alberta Premium was originally only available in Canada, until its launch of their cask strength rye whiskey. Following the success of that product, they decided to introduce the original to the United States as well. Despite its unique composition, it occupies the same shelving and price bracket as the staple Canadian whisky brands.
Alberta Distillers Limited was started in 1946 by Canadian oilman Frank McMahon and Canadian newspaper publisher Max Bell, built on 23 acres of land on what was then the outskirts of Calgary, Alberta. George Conrad Reifel, a Canadian brewer and distiller who had worked in Japan to establish the Anglo Japanese Brewing Company, joined the company to assist with the complex process of distilling rye. By 1957, the distillery expanded to have three heat-controlled warehouses and contained upwards of 100,000 barrels of aging whiskies on over 28 acres of land. In 1967, National Distillers & Chemical Corporation purchased Alberta Distillers to expand their own liquor portfolio. Alberta Distillers was sold off after Standard & Poor gave a negative outlook for whiskey. By 1975, the plant site grew to 42 acres in Calgary. The final warehouse construction gave the distillery storage for over 600,000 barrels. The site is one of the few in Canada that can age barrels in both rack and pallet style warehouses. With two rail spurs onsite, the distillery can ship and receive by rail, ISO tankers, and tanker trailers. In 1986, Alberta Distillers was purchased by American Brands, which itself was renamed as Fortune Brands in 1997 and split apart in 2011 into Fortune Brands Home & Security and Beam Inc. Beam Inc. was then purchased by the Suntory multinational holding company of Japan.
40% ABV
70cl
