This Canadian distillery has one of the most exciting backstories out there. The founder, J.P. Wiser, was a New York native cattle breeder who moved to Canada in the 1870s, worked at his uncle's distillery, and entered the business solely to secure grain to feed his cows. He was even considered a pioneer of the trade.
Luckily, by the 1900s, J.P. Wiser's was already a worldwide whiskey enterprise that continues to produce exceptional expressions to this day. This is, by all means, an opulent expression. A traditional Canadian blended experience influenced by aging in a combination of 3 different types of casks. New American Oak, ex-Bourbon, and used Canadian whisky casks. This gives us a complex and layered spirit at 40% ABV.
What you smell and taste in a whisky is highly subjective.
Even the pros do not always agree on the tasting notes. Therefore, we have combined the tasting notes from several sources into a cross-section Nose, Palate, and Finish to find the commonalities between two whiskies. We use the Aroma Wheel with its concentric circles of increasingly specific tastes and smells (general in the center; more specific the further out you go) to find Exact, Secondary, and General matches between two whiskies. We also take into account other important factors like mash bill, barrel type(s), ABV, region, ratings, price and more. We then weight each factor based on what we believe to be the approximate importance it has in determining whether two whiskies are similar.
We're all different.
Again, we cannot stress enough that what you smell and taste in a whisky is likely going to be different than the person you're drinking it with. Whisky Mates is meant to be a guide to help you find what you like drinking, using the best methodologies available. In the end, rely on your own palate to tell you what you like and don't like.