Bouchon Wines and Spirits

Sortilège Canadian Rye Whisky is distinguished by its unique maple flavour, achieved through a maple wood finishing process. In collaboration with a Quebec cooper, we have carefully selected, dried, and roasted local maple wood to give our whisky its distinctive character. Made from the best Canadian grains, our whisky undergoes 3 years of aging in oak barrels at the coopers, followed by a maceration with roasted maple wood chips at our Montreal plant, resulting in rich flavours, subtly smoky and complex notes, as well as a long finish on the palate.

Of the 2022 vintage, winemaker Jules Ashmead commented, “Using our tulip closed fermenters we were able take a portion of the fruit and hold for extended time on skins helping to deliver a parcel with exceptional length and depth with that long gentle extraction time on skins. In addition to this, we fermented parcels separately in open cement vats for 7-14 days. These parcels were pressed straight to oak, before eventual barrel selection to decide the final Command blend. That is a big tasting complete with a plenty of robust discussion!

97 POINTS - KEN GARGETT, WINEPILOT
I’ve been looking forward to this wine, ever since I tasted the previous vintage – both are superb Barossa years... An opaque maroon, this is fresh and energetic, with good focus. There is quality oak, well into integration. The nose exhibits notes of chocolate, blackberries, florals, coffee beans, mocha, aniseed and plums. Ideally balanced with great length, the wine finishes with the silkiest of tannins. Perhaps more classically structured than the 21, which offered more plushness, but there is such promise here. A cracker. Twenty to twenty-five years of pleasure ahead. In the pantheon of great Barossa Shiraz, this is sensational value.