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Last Mountain Distillery, nestled in the Lumsden valley, took home four prizes at The Whisky Explorer Awards this spring, with the Saskatchewan company sweeping an entire category.
The company entered its Baldur’s brand, created just two years ago, and its products won gold, silver and bronze in the Best 6-10 year Canadian Whisky category.
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The six-year blend no. 3 won gold, the eight-year 100 per cent rye no. 2 won silver, and the seven-year 100 per cent barley single-malt whisky won bronze. The Baldur’s eight-year 100 per cent rye no. 2 also won silver in the best 100 per cent rye in Canada category.
Meredith Schmidt, co-founder of Last Mountain Distillery, said the company’s whiskies have evolved in many different ways.
During an appearance on The Greg Morgan Morning Show on Monday, Schmidt said after a win like this, demand can spike right away. She said the company only releases a couple of hundred bottles of the whisky at a time, and everything that won awards in the recent competition is already gone, but Last Mountain is getting ready for its next release.
“A lot of the traffic that we get in our store is specifically for our Baldur’s whisky anyway, because a lot of our products are available in stores throughout Saskatchewan, whereas the whisky — because there’s only 200-300 bottles per release — we just keep it in Lumsden for people to come out and get so we can talk to them and educate them a little more about what each release is,” explained Schmidt.
