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There’s no question Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye was the boozy holiday gift of Christmas 2015 — a Tickle Me Elmo for grown-ups with a penchant for whisky — and it’s probably still sold out at your local liquor store, thanks to an English critic putting it atop his list of last year’s best drams.

“Doubtless there will be many … eyebrows raised because rarely is Canada mentioned when it (comes) to the world’s top whiskies,” Jim Murray wrote in his official announcement, which coincided with the 2016 edition of Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible. That’s true enough: Canadian whisky is finally back on the cool kids’ lips after an absence of at least three decades. Crown Royal Northern Harvest has to be the most talked-about Canadian whisky since — well, ever.

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The narrative that ha s spilled across the media and trickled into casual conversation is one of a particular Canadian whisky that made good. For the record, Crown Royal wasn’t “voted” anything. Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible is one man’s opinion; a dictatorship, not a democracy. Moreover, CRNH topped a list of “bests” that was almost exclusively made up of new products launched in 2015. So it was more like a “whisky of the year” trophy than a “best whisky ever.”