Canadian Club Whiskey is Canada’s oldest blended whiskey. For 140 years, it has been a beverage especially revered by Canadian whiskey drinkers. In 1858, the former American grocer Hiram Walker built The Hiram Walker and Sons distillery – to this day, located in the same place on the Detroit River, in Canada (Ontario), near the border with the United States. Constantly improving the distillation process, Walker created the whiskey «Walkers Club» (Walkers Club), which became popular in clubs with gentlemen from the US and Canada, and became known as «Club Whiskey». According to the existing legend, the famous gangster Al Capone crossed the border more than once in the days of Prohibition to get the coveted whiskey.
Hiram Walker positioned his whiskey as a premium whiskey with exceptional purity of taste, prepared according to a special recipe – a mixture of corn, barley, and rye, sent for further aging in oak barrels. Aromas of rye, rye, barley malt, and corn combine to create an unusual, sweet, and smooth taste that distinguishes Canadian Club from other Scotch, Irish and American whiskeys. The maturation period of Canadian Club whiskey is at least five years in new barrels. This was an innovative idea for that time since all bourbons and whiskeys produced in the USA «aged» for about a year.
In 1889, after the passage in the United States of the law on the need to indicate the country of origin on the label, Walker added the word “Canadian” to the name, and the whiskey received its modern name – Canadian Club (Canadian Club). After Walker died in 1899, his life’s work passed to his sons and 21 years later to his grandchildren.
Canadian Club Whiskey is the third largest selling Canadian whiskey in the world and is ranked 47th on the list of the world’s best premium alcoholic beverages. The Canadian Club has been awarded the Order of Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, King George V, King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth II.