Ex Libris is La Maison du Whisky (LMDW)’s somewhat new series dedicated to exploring world whiskies. For all the art that adorned the multiple rounds of the Artist Series, the Ex Libris will utilize literary works instead, with each whisky named after a famous work hailing from the same country of origin. 

Check out the Irish Whiskey collection from Ex Libris ft. James Joyce

We've had some experience reviewing a 22 YO JP Wiser's Canadian rye from the Ex Libris collection – and we found it to be some top notch stuff, making us sorry for not paying more attention to Canadian whiskies!

After all, JP Wiser’s is Canada’s oldest continuously produced whisky, dating back to 1857. And while its award-winning traditional Canadian rye whisky is said to utilise high quality grains, founder JP Wiser’s key legacy was to age his whiskey much longer than other whisky makers. 

Well, we're really in for a treat. Ex Libris is back again bottling Canadian rye whisky from JP Wiser’s. This time round, it'll be at a ripe old age of 40 years old. Once again, the collection pays tribute to famed Canadian novelist, Mordecai Richler, naming the expression after another one of Richler’s novel “The Apprenticeship [of Duddy Kravitz]”.

This expression is a Canadian blended whisky coming in at 64.5% ABV.

This original bottling was produced with very old maize whiskies aged in casks previously containing a Speyside single malt, as well as a small percentage of rye whisky matured in quarter casks previously used for a peated Scottish single malt. This version shows us J.P. Wiser’s in a more vanilla and richer light than the J.P. Wiser’s 1998 (which we have reviewed here).   

The handful of incursions into the world of rum found in its palette of flavours and aromas are irrefutable proof.

 This has an outrun of 240 bottles.

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