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卡尔费特威士忌（Lord Calvert）是“这样罕有，这样顺滑，这样香醇，一直陪伴着那些明白得欣赏及买得起的尊贵人士”。在1952年，其中一买得起的人叫乔治勃雷斯代（George G. Blaisdell，下图），他是一位企业家，早年用260美元投资创立了Zippo打火机。他的兴趣是开跑车及打高尔夫球。

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1889 年，大哥布朗夫曼，逃离反犹太人大屠杀的比萨拉比亚，抵达加拿大，与他在拖车的年轻家庭。这个家庭了其第一，加拿大的家庭上，布朗夫曼，曾在比萨拉比亚蓬勃发展种植烟草的农民，希望重复他的成功作为一个农民的大草原。他很快得知，然而，严酷的草原气候相当适合烟草。经过大量的金融挫折和其他企业的成功，包括酒贸易，Bronfmans，他的名字意味着酒人意第绪语，最终定居在蒙特利尔。
在 1924 年，由于他们已经相当大的成功作为整流器，年轻一代的 Bronfmans 建在蒙特利尔郊区的联行他们第一次真正酒厂。联行酒厂，加安大略省滑铁卢市酒厂，称为 Seagram，他们购买在 1928 年，很快就成为世界上最大的蒸馏帝国之一的基石。但尽管最终泛全球网络的布朗夫曼国有酒厂，卡住的 Seagram 名称和仍然是最坚定地与加拿大相关联。
在 1934 年，作为施格兰布朗夫曼兄弟获得马里兰酿酒公司的继电器，马里兰和立即设置为改善其生产的威士忌的质量。当时，马里兰州酒厂销售非老年的美国精神，称之为主卡尔弗特威士忌。萨姆布朗夫曼决心要让低质量的禁酒令时期威士忌一过去的事，于是他立即开始将加拿大威士忌酒添加到主卡尔弗特，以提高风味，直到正常老年人美国馏分油将变得可用。在 1939 年，与用品的兴起，岁美国威士忌 Seagram 的巴尔的摩搅拌机厂卡尔弗特主完全重新制订为溢价美国混合型。
在随后的几年，卡尔弗特标签和威士忌本身，经历了无数次迭代和被卖作为主卡尔弗特，卡尔弗特特别，卡尔弗特储备，卡尔弗特额外和 100%加拿大版本称为耶和华卡尔弗特加拿大。也有许多变形为区域市场开发。现在排序他们全力以赴是绝非易事，但似乎，卡尔弗特特殊和卡尔弗特储备介绍了作为美国共混物时足够岁美国威士忌后禁止变得可用。虽然他们很受好评，到 1960 年代，饮酒者要求轻威士忌和波本威士忌和黑麦富卡尔弗特储备逃过销售超过 200 万的案例到少于 120 万例每年。

In 1889, Yechiel Bronfman, fleeing anti-Semitic pogroms in Bessarabia, arrived in Canada with his young family in tow. The family made its first Canadian home on the prairies where Bronfman, who had been a thriving tobacco farmer in Bessarabia, hoped to repeat his success as a farmer. He quickly learned, however, that the harsh prairie climate was quite unsuitable for tobacco. After a number of financial setbacks and successes in other ventures, including the liquor trade, the Bronfmans, whose name means ‘liquor man’ in Yiddish, eventually settled in Montreal.

In 1924, prompted by their already considerable success as rectifiers, the younger generation of Bronfmans built their first real distillery in the Montreal suburb of Lasalle. The Lasalle distillery, coupled with a Waterloo, Ontario distillery, called Seagram’s, which they purchased in 1928, quickly became the cornerstones of one of the world’s largest distilling empires. But despite the eventual pan-global network of Bronfman-owned distilleries, it was the Seagram name that stuck and remains most firmly associated with Canada.

In 1934, as Seagram’s, the Bronfman brothers acquired Maryland Distillers Inc. of Relay, Maryland and immediately set to improving the quality of its whisky. At the time, Maryland Distillers was selling un-aged American spirit, calling it Lord Calvert Whiskey. Sam Bronfman was determined to make low-quality, Prohibition-era whisky a thing of the past, so he immediately began adding Canadian whisky to Lord Calvert to improve the flavour, until properly-aged American distillates would become available. In 1939, with supplies of aged American whisky on the rise, blenders at Seagram’s Baltimore plant completely re-formulated Lord Calvert as a premium American blend.

Over the years that followed, the Calvert label, and the whisky itself, went through numerous iterations and was sold as Lord Calvert, Calvert Special, Calvert Reserve, Calvert Extra, and a 100% Canadian version called Lord Calvert Canadian. There were also numerous variants developed for regional markets. Sorting them all out now is no easy task, but it seems that Calvert Special and Calvert Reserve were introduced as American blends when sufficient aged American whisky became available after Prohibition. Although they were very well received, by the 1960s, drinkers were demanding lighter whiskies, and the bourbon and rye-rich Calvert Reserve had slipped from sales of over two million cases to fewer than 1.2 million cases annually.

Calvert chief blender, Russ McLauchlan and Seagram’s president Edgar Bronfman decided that rather than reformulate the blend they would simply withdraw it and replace it with another. The result was Calvert Extra, a lighter American blended whisky which soon had sales exceeding 2.3 million cases. It was a gamble that paid off well. Then, in 1964 Bronfman and McLauchlan developed an all-Canadian version called Lord Calvert Canadian. Thanks to stringent labeling laws we can be confident that Lord Calvert Canadian is, and always was the real thing – real Canadian whisky, all of it aged for a minimum of three years.

In 1991, Seagram’s sold the Lord Calvert Canadian brand to Jim Beam so Seagram’s could shift its focus to its premium brands, including Crown Royal. As a result, Calvert Canadian is now a Beam Global brand, but the whisky in the historic bottle reviewed here was indeed produced at Seagram’s Laval distillery more than thirty years ago now, at some time during the late 1970s or early ’80s. After being distilled, aged and blended in Laval, the whisky was shipped in bulk to Seagram’s plants in the United States where it was bottled and sold by ‘Calvert Distillers.’ Calvert, you see, was managed then as a separate Seagram brand, with its own sales and distribution organizations.

Nose: The ambience of a Québec sugar shack soon evolves into the sweet/fresh fragrance of maple taffy on snow. Maple notes dominate, but without concealing hints of butterscotch, vanilla, fresh butter, and sour apricots. Subtle, slightly musty aromas of rough lumber stacked outside to dry, underscore cedar overtones and lovely oaky notes. Way in the background, a bouquet of lilacs and hints of shellac waft in on vague suggestions of spirit.

Palate: Very sweet to start out, with strong flavours of real maple syrup (not the maple-flavoured kind) and vanilla ice cream. White pepper arrives quickly, along with bright zesty citric notes. The palate is very buttery yet surprisingly fresh and lively with piquant peppers and tingling spice. Oak comes through crisply in the nose with the woodsman’s balm of freshly sawn planks and just a touch of tannic astringency. Not a particularly complex whisky, but well-balanced and very flavourful, while remaining light and creamy.

Finish: Medium-longish with pepper and maple sugar slowly fading to a slightly citric conclusion.

Empty Glass: Rich and sweet with maple cream candy, vanilla, butterscotch, and Christie Maple Leaf cookies, then behind the sweetness an ample stack of fresh-cut lumber.

This whisky was part of package of about a dozen old bottles I purchased for about $80.00 U.S.