Hellyers Street Distillery within the Australian state of Tasmania just lately bottled a single cask unique to Kirsch Import in Germany and The Nectar in Belgium. It’s a first fill bourbon barrel with double distilled malt whisky.
Hellyers Street 18 yo (56,4%, OB for Kirsch Import + The Nectar 2021, American oak cask #2269.03, 197 btl.)
Nostril: fairly recent, beginning on white bread and caraway seeds, with some aromatic oily notes and walnuts. Freshly sawn pinewood and faint hints of cardboard however nothing disturbing. Sponge cake with vanilla. Stewed fruits within the background, in addition to a refreshing mint & lemon balm mixture. Good.
Mouth: fairly robust, displaying spicy notes at first (ginger, caraway, chilli pepper) and transferring in direction of hotter hints of latte and butterscotch. Buttered toast, vanilla and chocolate. Then oranges, lemons and inexperienced bananas. Some mentholated notes in direction of the top. There’s nonetheless a agency trace of pinewood and sauna aromas, however
End: medium size, on grainy notes, lemon inexperienced tea and peppermint. Only a mild astringency from the grassy wooden.
Intresting whisky with a correct un-Scotch character. It finds a pleasant steadiness however I’m unsure I might spend round € 250 on this type of profile. Nonetheless accessible in outlets round Belgium and Germany.
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