Wiser’s Very Old/18 Year Old

A nose of hot cereal with a dusting of dry cocoa and oaky vanilla and hints of figs and sesame oil. The palate yields clean grains — a real crack of rye among them — and oak dried apricot unsweetened licorice and a long finish of warming rich cereal. Strikingly clean and non-cloying for Canadian sweet but not overdone. Good for mixing but equally good for sipping; a nice end-of-day dram. (Sold as both Very Old and 18 Year Old.)