Special Limited-Edition release.
Details
Australian Release
500ml: 51.7%alc
Age: Almost 10 years old
Country: Australia
Region: North Bayswater, Victoria
Cask type: American Oak (ex-whiskey)
Bottler: Bakery Hill
Distilled: 2008
Released Date: Late 2016
A rare single cask release from the Bakery Hill distillery in Melbourne’s Bayswater district that is now a complete sell out at their cellar door and online store. A big thanks to Andrew Baker, who answered our SOS for more stock and managed to find the very last two bottles “ever” hiding away at the distillery.
Nicknamed ‘A Wisp of Smoke’, it was distilled in 2008 and made using a very lightly peated malt (to approximately 5ppm) using New Zealand sourced peat as Victorian environmental laws forbid the burning of peat. It’s non-chill filtered and matured in American Oak ex-whiskey (Jack Daniels) barrels, then bottled without any additional colouring at 51.7%alc.
As the good folks from Bakery Hill say….
“Peated and at 51.7% this was selected as the best release of the year. Whereas most peated malt whiskies are very up front with their peat character, “A Wisp of Smoke” is quite the opposite.
The peat is there but curling in and around the stunning character of the malt. You will not be confronted by peat, but rather are entranced by the soft and gentle leather, blue cheese, soft cedar all wrapped up in the characteristic sweetness of Bakery Hill’s Malts”
NOSE: Rich pipe tobacco, soft leather and apricots with fresh green apple and a hint of linseed oil and cedar.
PALATE: Salted caramel, sweet melon and dried apple. An intriguing hint of gorgonzola dolce piques interest.
FINISH: Immensely complex, fresh and salty. It just pleads for another sip whilst long waxy legs wrapping themselves around the glass.
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