Crown Royal is the best Canadian Rye Whisky. All of my family memebers or friends who come to visit me in Canada from England ask for Crown Royal right away ! It's not available for some reason in England but it's the number one selling canadian rye whisky in Canada and the United States. Tastes great on its own, on the rocks, great with coke, 7up, or ginger ale. And the packaging is great the crown shape bottle is a unique.
Wikipedia Crown Royal
"The reigning monarch King George VI, afflicted with a deeply painful root canal, asked his wife Queen Elizabeth to devise an elixir to sooth his recently placed crown. She tasked Samuel Bronfman, President of the Seagram Company, with the creation of a quality elixir to be packaged in a crown-shaped bottle and dressed in a distinctive royal purple bag to be presented to the king. Like the packaging, the name chosen for the product was intended to reflect the quality of the spirit and as a play on words for its original intended use, a marketing concept that quickly caught consumer attention. It was available only in Canada until 1964."
I know you get Canadian Club over there in the U.K, but trust me this is 100 times better. Canadian Club doesn't even come close to Crown Royal.
"Canadian whisky is a type of whisky produced in Canada. Most Canadian whiskies are blended multi-grain liquors containing a large percentage of corn spirits, and are typically lighter and smoother than other whisky styles.[1]
According to the laws of Canada, a Canadian whisky must be mashed, distilled and aged in Canada. It may contain caramel and flavouring in addition to the distilled mash spirits, and there is no maximum limit on the alcohol level of the distillation[2], so the bulk of the distilled content (often more than 90 percent) may be neutral spirits or near-neutral spirits rather than "straight" whiskies. It must be aged for at least three years in a wooden barrel of not greater than 700 L capacity, and it must contain at least 40 percent alcohol by volume.[2] The barrel used for aging is not required to be charred or new.
Laws in some other countries, such as the United States, recognize Canadian whisky as an indigenous product of Canada, and require that products labeled as Canadian whisky must satisfy the laws of Canada that regulate the manufacture of Canadian whisky for consumption in Canada.[3] When sold in another country, Canadian whisky is typically also required to conform to the local product requirements that apply to whiskey in general when sold in that country, which may in some aspects involve stricter standards than the Canadian law."
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