Tasmanian Heartwood Malt Whisky Pty Ltd is not a distillery but an independent bottler and brand, based in North Hobart – Tasmania, that is owned and operated by Tim Duckett who also owns the TIB brand (Tasmanian Independent Bottlers). Heartwood currently has approx. 7000 + litres of whisky ageing in 200, 240 and 300 litre barrels, with the collection first starting in 1999 and making its debut sale in 2012.

A variety of barrels are used to mature their whiskies including bourbon, port, sherry, rum, muscat and tokay (sweet white) with the barrels filled with ‘New Make’ spirit from 7 different distilleries. The newly added peated and unpeated spirit now makes it 9 spirit types that are laid to rest in Tim’s Bond warehouse. Been independent bottlers, Tim and his team have absolute ownership and input into every stage of the whisky’s development seeking out the best ‘new make’ spirit and matching them with carefully selected barrels which are filled and housed under their complete control.

Since Heartwood’s a passion project not motivated by market forces or deadlines, they let the whisky decide when it’s ready to be bottled and released no matter what the age. It’s a big brassy whisky not for the weak hearted boasting an abv of 58% upward to around 72.5% making it some of the strongest whisky in the world. The brands success has been well deserved and many whisky aficionados both in Australia and Scotland have really taken to the bottlings ensuring Heartwood’s releases literally sell out before even making it to physical and virtual retail shelves.