Where the Highwood Story Begins.
Highwood Five
Five winters in the cask, no more. Clean, unhurried. The prairie’s first word.
- Soft cereal
- Vanilla
- Gentle oak
- Prairie air
- Grain
- Prairie Wheat
- ABV
- 40%
- Format
- 750 ml
Since 1974 · High River, Alberta
Prairie grain, mountain water, and the long patience of the foothills. Distilled and bottled at the source since 1974.
Explore the whiskiesBy the Distillers
There is a certain kind of place that doesn’t ask to be discovered. It keeps to itself, prefers a long winter to a short one, and trusts that the work will speak when the work is finished. High River, Alberta is one of those places.
We have distilled here since 1974, in a building that hasn’t moved, on a piece of prairie that did not need our help to look like itself. Wheat and corn grown within a half‑day’s walk of the still. Water drawn cool from beneath the foothills. Nothing the year didn’t make.
“Patience is the only flavour we don’t have to add.”
The Distillers, of High River
Three bottles raised by the same prairie. Wheat at five years, wheat and corn at fifteen, corn alone at twenty‑five. The grain shifts as the years stack; the prairie does not. Each bottle pours as itself, never blended, never hurried.
Where the Highwood Story Begins.
Five winters in the cask, no more. Clean, unhurried. The prairie’s first word.
The Crossover.
Wheat and corn under the same lid, side by side. Balanced, layered. The prairie’s full sentence.
Maturity.
Tucked into oak for a quarter-century. Slow, deep. The prairie’s last word.
Distilled, aged, and bottled in High River, Alberta. Bottle for bottle, the same little place.
The Land · 50° 35′ N
The climate is the recipe. Cold enough to lock the spirit into the wood for the winter, warm enough through August to pull it back out, year over year, until the cask gives up its colour.