Found North x PM Spirits COLLAB 15-Year-Old Canadian Whisky

PM Spirits has distributed Found North in New York for three years, and this bottle marks the occasion. It's the Found North entry in PM's COLLAB series of collaborative bottlings: fourteen separate whiskies, each aged between 15 and 23 years, bottled from a single cask at 58.96% ABV. The components matured in new and used American oak, Armagnac casks, and Sauternes casks. Nothing added, no chill filtration.

• Fourteen-component blend, every whisky aged 15 to 23 years
• Matured in new and used American oak, Armagnac and Sauternes casks
• Single cask, bottled at cask strength: 117.92 proof (58.96% ABV).

Found North is a blending house, one of the few in North America. Its batch releases start with Canadian whisky that has spent many years in refill oak, then move into custom new-wood barrels for the last stage of maturation. That gets the benefit of age without over-extracting the oak. Found North also treats finishing casks as components of a blend instead of a final layer, which is how Armagnac and Sauternes sit alongside American oak in this one. Tannin runs through the whole whisky. PM's own notes call it "a river of woodspice": dry and structured, with the chocolate, fruit, and floral notes all playing against the oak.

Nose: Dark chocolate and mocha up front, then floral tea, dehydrated blood orange, and pine needles.

Palate: Bold and tannic from the first sip. Red fruit lands first, reading as dried apricot with nutmeg, followed by high-percentage cacao and a delicate floral tea note. A faint herbal edge, softened by honeysuckle, rides on wood spice.

Finish: Barrel-aged cappuccino. Creamy, bitter, and brooding, with a hint of mahogany.

Seared duck breast with a blood orange glaze picks up the citrus on the nose, and the fat softens the tannin. For dessert, go with a flourless chocolate cake made with 70% cacao or darker, which matches the cacao on the palate and the cappuccino finish. At nearly 118 proof, a few drops of water won't hurt.