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Bakery Hill Classic Cask Strength
500ml 60.00% |
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$150.00 |
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Have a look at what I wrote about the 46% Classic...then turn the volume up to very load! Breathtaking. David Baker's signature creamy maltiness is these, basically it envelopes the entire mouth, but the high intensity spirit just drives this whisky right down the palate. Surprisingly notes of chocolate, bitter orange and rosewater make an appearance. And once again, the maltiness just lasts and lasts.
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Bakery Hill Classic Malt
500ml 46.00% |
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$120.00 |
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This is very impressive, very impressive. Those that know me, know that I'm not a great fan of small cask matured whiskies. BUT tasting David's entry level Classic malt, just confirms in my mind that David is on the right track. His distilling skills, oak management and maturation abilities and importantly the style of his malts is spot on, and just gets better with every new release.
This malt is classically malty (as all whiskies should be), crisply intensive and the malt flavours just hang around for what seems an eternity. Look out for the magic oak spice on the nose. Great stuff.
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Bakery Hill Double Wood
500ml 46.00% |
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$120.00 |
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David Baker's combo malt, where he matures his spirit in 2nd fill bourbon barrels and used French oak casks...and what a dram he gets at the end. Smelling more grainy than the Classic, more fresh grain than malted, there's also a load of vanilla, coconut, dried fruits and kitchen spice flavours coming off as well. The French oak spice marries perfectly with creamy cereal flavours on the palate. And once again this malt just fill every crevice of your palate. And once again, the flavour just hangs around for ages.
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Bakery Hill Peated Cask Strength
500ml 60.00% |
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$150.00 |
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It amazes me that the increase in alcohol is not just "an increase in alcohol" attack on the palate. Cask strengths just have a habit of reavealing more complex flavours and textures than their softer cousins. And this cracker from David Baker is no exception. The peat is intensified, there's an earthiness and cherry/berry flavours not seen in the 46% and on the palate it is just explosive. And it's all in balance as there is plenty of creamy oak and malt to balance up the high strength alcohol. Great stuff David Baker.
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Bakery Hill Peated Malt
500ml 46.00% |
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$120.00 |
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I never thought I would say this about an Aussie malt...but this is a masterpiece. Soft, pulpy, subtle fruitiness, sweet vanilla oak and then you notice the peat sitting underneath. A distant bonfire, dry and tangy that works really well with this malts quite sweet & rich palate. Very long palate with (once again) a smoky tanginess that hangs around for ages. brilliant stuff and a credit to David's distilling skills.
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Belgrove Tasmanian White Rye
500ml 40.00% |
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$120.00 |
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Meet Peter Bignall, Australia's first distiller of a pure 100% rye based spirit that's double distilled but has yet to see any oak. The purity of the product is amazing, it is just so very clean for a spirit distilled in May this year!!
And the taste? Pure, fresh, chewy rye loaf with a spicy alcoholic lift. Perfect on the rocks or even better as part of mix.
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700ml 100.00% |
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$100.00 |
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Gift Voucher For $150
700ml 100.00% |
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$150.00 |
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Gift Voucher For $200
700ml 100.00% |
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$200.00 |
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700ml 100.00% |
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$250.00 |
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700ml 100.00% |
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$50.00 |
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Heartwood Convict Release
700ml 58.00% |
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$240.00 |
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Mr Tim, you've done it again!
After the Beast and Convict Unchained, you may this think this tempered version of the Convict at 58% would appear weak. No sir-ree. Yes, it's a little restrained, a tad more balanced and the syrupy unctuousness is slightly held in check, but it still remains a one mighty mouthful of a malt. sweet and lush but with the right amount of alcohol to brighten it up. And it amazes me that reduction in alcohol can make this dram a totally different experience than its crazy, crazy brother.
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Heartwood Convict Unchained
500ml 71.90% |
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$260.00 |
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This is Australia's Most Extraordinary & Explosive Single Malt!!
Be Warned.
This man, Tim Duckett, seems to have got it oh so right! His Heartwood range to date has been exciting as it they been thrilling as they have been certainly challenging. All of his whiskies so far, have been at cask strength and with the latest offering, at extreme cask strength. But the inherent sweetness of oak and malt he gets from his whiskies really do require and deserve a higher strength alcohols.
While Tim has had a big hand in the distilling process, it’s in abilities in handling of oak where his undoubted skill lay. As the key factor in all this, is that just knows how to use oak along with time to get the best out of his spirits. And importantly, he’s not afraid to re-rack and play around with a wide variety of oak and barrel size with his spirit in order to meet his exacting standards.
And the biggest surprise of all? All of his whiskies are Tasmanian!
So to his latest offering, The Convict Unchained. This brute comes in at a massive 71.9% abv…that’s bigger than the very visceral George T Stagg.
Sweetly fruited and dare I say a subtly complex nose, hints of wood varnish, crisp malt, barley sugar, honey and slightly resinous oak but clean as a whistle. And of course alcohol, it’s there, it’s intensive and yep, it works.. And then you taste it…Oh My God…a very sweet and viscous entry, soft pulpy malted barley and very creamy oak with a big dash of sherried dried fruit flavours and then the clean, intensive spirit let’s rip and it just drives these flavours and enormous texture down the palate.
At the end, it finishes, clean, crisp with a subtle dried fruit and oak finish. This whisky just has monstrous length and enormous flavour.
And it is so bloody well balanced! So it works. That’s the killer for me.
The Convict Unchained is extremely limited
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Heartwood Mt Wellington 12yo
700ml 62.40% |
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$340.00 |
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Is this the best Tassie whisky yet? From that enterprising fellow, Mr Tim Duckett, this is the first ever independent bottling of an Australian whisky.
And what a beauty it is. it is so rich and luscious, no pickled onion smells and perfect integration of oak, spirit and malt. The palate is long and sumptuous and loaded up with vanilla, clotted cream, crème brulee, custard and best of all Darryl Lea milk toffee flavours. The spirit is need as it add zest and life to this very rich palate.
And if you want a third part opinion then go and have a look at Andrew Derbidge's tasting notes on Australian Gourmet Pages. His summary goes as follows, " Wow! An extremely pleasant whisky and one that is very more-ish. Despite the high alcohol, it's wonderfully approachable and not at all aggressive. (A gentle giant?) Sorry, but if this was served to me blind, there's no way I'd pick it as an Australian whisky. If you'd told me this came from the heart of Scotland, I wouldn't doubt it for a second - it's very Scotch-like. (I often wonder how Australian whisky producers feel about such comparisons. Is this a compliment or an insult?) In either case, this is great whisky: Well made, well matured, and well delivered."
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Heartwood Release The Beast
500ml 65.40% |
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$230.00 |
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** WARNING: This review contains less than polite language!!
In the immortal words of a close mate of mine whose name just escapes me…F*&#k Me Tommy!
Where the hell has this come from? Are you serious…Tasmania!?
I thought the last Heartwood release was the best Tassie malt I’ve seen, well I take it back as this monster takes the cake. Christmas Cake that is.
This is one massive malt, and it is so dark, being fully matured in ex Aussie sherry casks. initially I thought it just smelt lie a big, fat old fashioned Rutherglen muscat, but no, I’m now thinking of those old, old style Scottish sherried Speysiders. Big, fat and rich, loads of dried fruits, honeycomb, cream caramel, lush malt, old Oloroso and muscat notes. Just a hint of furniture polish. Big and expressive, but enough allure to really drag your nose in.
You sure this is an Aussie? No pickled onion juice here.
Then you take a sip….and I do recommend a sip…Kaaaa -boom!
Get over it and concentrate: massively intensive, loads of honeycomb, creamy malt, died fruits and lush oak (just what I said above) but Wow! What attack. But what balance, there’s a hit load of alcohol, but it’s not hot or burning…but it’s big f^%@k it's big! And so is the flavour behind it. It certainly needs it. And did I mention how sweet it is? Massive again.
Second time around, the mouthfeel goes from narrow, rapier like to a bit more expansive. And one point of criticism, after the massive sweet entry, there’s mid palate fullness, but the end tails off a tad. But that honeyed, dried fruitiness and rich oak just lingers. I’m still tasting it after 5 or so minutes.
In a word unbelievable…and if you’re thinking about adding water…just go buy a 40% Glen Nothing and scoff that if this offends….
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Heartwood Velvet Hammer
500ml 68.80% |
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$260.00 |
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Tim Duckett...you've done it again! Brand new for April 2013, this is a massive, massive malt BUT very sweet and creamy. Loads of honeycombe, sweet, biscuity malt (in fact me thinks this is the finest definition of malt in an Aussie whisky I have ever seen...brilliant). The nose has a mouthwatering quality. All American oak matured, but this is both classy and immensely enjoyable and the killer is that it is so highly drinkable. And it also just so pure and clean. Loads of malt on the palate, honey, creamy oak. Long palate that finishes rather crisply with lingering maltiness.
And best of all...there is a distinct feeling at the end ...that you really do need another glass!
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Lark Cask 133 Port Wood
500ml 43.00% |
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This is the latest regular strength offering from Lark Distillery. Matured in 100lt ex port quarter casks that have been shaved and lightly re-charred, this style of Lark is a gentle alternative to the big blockbuster cask strengths.
From the Larks, "Our port barrel whiskies usually have a great maple syrup pancake with vanilla ice-cream nose, and the palate rich Christmas pudding with nuts and raisins, often with dark chocolate and glace orange and ginger, and sweet spices such as fenugreek and cinnamon. Our port matured whiskies usually have a nut brittle finish, drying off into roast hazelnuts and almonds." So there!!
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Lark LD164 Cask Strength
500ml 58.00% |
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$160.00 |
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Laest cask strength offering from the Lark Distillery.
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Old Hobart Distillery Overeem Port Matured
700ml 43.00% |
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$140.00 |
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I've been watching this distillery for some time and have been amazed at the accolades it has received over the last couple of years especially from Murray and our local MWSoA.
Another Lark devotee, but Casey Overeem has certainly put his own mark not only on the distillery's style but also on the end product. Make no mistake, these are quality drams.
In their words, "On the Nose: Moderately intense aromatics, fruit chocolates, caramel, butterscotch, turkish
delight, crème brulee, plum pudding, rum soaked raisins, strong baking spices and a hint of
cider.
On the Palate: Creamy texture, sweet and delicately spicy, flavours of fruitcake, caramel,
liquorice and sweet malt.
The Finish: Long. Vanilla bean laced with spiced raisins.
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Old Hobart Distillery Overeem Port Matured
700ml 60.00% |
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$170.00 |
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I've been watching this distillery for some time and have been amazed at the accolades it has received over the last couple of years especially from Murray and our local MWSoA.
Another Lark devotee, but Casey Overeem has certainly put his own mark not only on the distillery's style but also on the end product. Make no mistake, these are quality drams.
In their words, "On the Nose: Notes of choc-chip cookie, orange marmalade and clove.
On the Palate: Spicy dried fruits (raisin and date) .
The Finish: Hints of plum, sultana and cocoa.."
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