Tasmanian Whisky RSS

Destination Cellars bring you the second installment of our Distant Socialising events for an evening of great drams with our friends at Lark Distillery, where you can enjoy Bill's guided tasting (including two brand new releases) from the comfort of your own home . This is the recording of the online tasting event from Wednesday April 29th.

Destination Cellars bring you the second instalment of our Distant Socialising events for an evening of great drams with our friends at Lark Distillery, where you can enjoy Bill's guided tasting (including two brand new releases) from the comfort of your own home . This virtual tasting event went live at 7pm Wednesday April 29th. Here's the line up of great Lark drams:

1. CLASSIC CASK Single Malt Whisky 43%abv A dram to get the taste buds going. Approachable but complex, our Classic Cask 43% is a whisky made for sharing, celebrating, and enjoying. Handcrafted in the Coal River Valley, it’s a true labour of love from the second it leaves our distillery to the moment the cork is popped and the whisky is enjoyed. Double-distilled in locally crafted copper-pot stills and aged in carefully selected small casks, the Classic Cask features the citrus and butterscotch of the Lark house style with a hint of Tasmanian peat. A great balance of sweet, spicy and savoury elements make this the perfect everyday dram for whisky-lovers on all stages of their whisky drinking journey.

2. NEW! DISTILLER'S SELECTION LD1182 44%abv Single Cask Port Cask In the spirit of exploration, our Distiller’s Selection releases are specially selected by our distillers as whiskies that are intriguing and different, showcasing unique flavours outside of Lark house style. Copper-coloured, rich and intense, LD1182 spent its entire life in a single ex-Seppeltsfield Port Cask. Only 114 bottles produced

3. NEW! LIMITED EDITION SHIRAZ CASK 2020 42%abv The Limited Release Shiraz Cask is the perfect partnership between some of the biggest, most robust red wine casks from South Australia, and rich, oily single malt whisky from our Coal River Valley Distillery in Tasmania. We laid our spirit down in hand-selected Barossa Valley Shiraz Casks and have been watching it slowly mature and develop. The result is a Tasmanian single malt whisky that highlights our famous bold spirit style against the signature red fruit aromas, tannic structure and lingering pepper-leaf finish of Barossa Valley Shiraz from South Australia.

4. Sláinte Whisky Liqueur Sláinte marries our finest single malt whisky with a closely-guarded selection of botanicals to produce a delightfully complex and velvety liqueur. The two are carefully combined to give the right complexity of character, spiciness and sweetness, whilst maintaining the delightful overtones of the whisky. Named for the Gaelic toast to good health.

The Destination Cellars crew invite you to the first 'Distant Socialising' event with Tim Duckett - the man behind the Heartwood and Tasmanian Independent Bottlers (TIB) whisky labels - as he takes us on a guided tasting of a selection of drams from his multi award winning stable of whiskies.

Tim Duckett (Mr H) talks TIB and Heartwood with Todd Morrison of Destination Cellars while guiding us through an online whisky tasting session on Zoom on 22 April 2020.

Heartwood & Tasmanian Independent Bottlers teamed up again with Destination Cellars for an evening of great drams, but this time you can enjoy the drams and erudite banter from Mr H from the comfort of your own home . Our first virtual tasting event went live at 7pm Wednesday April 22nd.

Here's a line up to make you salivate:

1. You will get the first look at the pre-release of the TIB Vatted Malt #3 at 49.6% abv consisting of two ex-Sherry casks from 'a Renowned NSW Distillery', & a splash of peated ex-Sherry cask from local Adams Distillery.

2. TIB RD0027 Sherry Cask 47.9% - Gold Medal at the Wizards of Whisky 2020

3. TIB 'Renowned NSW Distillery' Release 3 matured in two ex-Sherry casks (TIB ??0017 & ??0018) before bottling at 46.1%

4. Heartwood Wizards Sceptre the latest high octane release. This is composed of 100 litres of an old Fino Sherry Lark LD 766 cask, with about 80 litres added from Old Kempton RD 109 Oloroso Sherry cask, and to finish it off, a fair splash of a smoky, peaty bomb from Belgrove PB 121.

TIB is run by local alchemist Tim Duckett (aka Mr H), producer of the famed high-octane Heartwood brand, who has created TIB to offer a more gentle style of whisky with less 'mongrel' than the Heartwood releases. Heartwood has won countless awards on some of the most prestigious whisky stages over the past decade and TIB is now following suit.

He sources spirit from Tasmania, mainland Australia, and New Zealand based on its texture and flavour profile. It is then matched to a specific barrel type. Currently they have selected 15 barrel types for maturation of the spirit including:
Sherry, Port, Bourbon, Muscat, Botrytis, Virgin oak, Re-educated 2nd fill, Rum, Bourbon Rum, Sherry Rum, Tokay, PX, Rye, Whisky beer. Also they will have oats, rye, & apple spirit. Exciting times.

TIB Awards: The Wizards of Whisky World Whisky Awards 2019 Australasian Producer of the Year 2019 Tasmanian Independent Bottlers. 2018 Independent Bottlers Challenge Winner.