Call this a cross-border rye. Distilled in Calgary by Alberta Distillers – Canada's only rye-focused producer – it's packaged and sold by 35 Maple, a company owned by members of the prominent Sebastiani winemaking family of California. Made from 100-per-cent rye grain in a small-batch pot still, it's bold and very spicy, underpinned by soft honey, peach, vanilla and chocolate nuances, with tobacco-like earthiness running all the way through. Too bad about the British Columbia price: $130.72 in B.C., $84.98 in New Brunswick, $85.61 in Nova Scotia, $89.99 in Newfoundland.