Full bloom

GREAT AUSTRALIAN STORY

Our year of being Mavericks continues into February with another unexpected, but very welcome, Malt of the Month. Last month we kicked into action with a tremendously tropical Canadian single malt, and for this month we are introducing our first ever premium ‘Heresy’ batch, a single malt, 18-year-old whisky bottled at a gloriously silky 50% ABV.

So where does the Australian story come in? For this special Malt of the Month, our spirits team in the UK, led by Euan Campbell and Kai Ivalo, have worked closely with a prominent Aussie cask supplier of premium local wine casks for extra maturation, had them sent over to the UK, and provided a luscious extra layer of complexity to an already fascinating 18yo whisky.

This kind of project takes some years to execute, so we’re really excited to again change the game up, be the mavericks, and release something as exciting as Full Bloom. These casks previously contained muscat from an incredible Aussie winery which held muscat for 20 years. This is a sweet dessert-style wine similar to port or PX sherry. Expect notes of exotic tobacco pouch, melon, mango, lychee and floral rosewater. Also noted were roasted peaches, cinnamon buns, flower honey and hessian.

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FULL BLOOM

SMALL BATCH SINGLE MALT

CASK NO. BATCH 16

$240

REDUCED FROM $269

REGION Scotland CASK TYPE 1st fill bourbon barrels & 1st fill Australian Muscat barriques AGE 18 years DATE DISTILLED 11 September 2003 OUTTURN 903 bottles

ABV

50.0%

AUS ALLOCATION 90 bottles

MALT OF THE MONTH

For the creation of this small batch single malt we teamed up with our friends at Nebb Whisky Barrels, who specialise in Australian vintage wine barrels. We selected some top quality Speyside single malt that had matured for sixteen years in first fill bourbon barrels. We then transferred the whisky to some beautiful barriques that had been filled for twenty years with heady Muscat wine in a family run winery in New South Wales. Enjoy!