Part of the inaugural 2020 four bottle independent releases that yielded 67 bottles.
Details
500ml: 47.7%alc
Region: Flinders Island, TAS
Bottler: Furneaux Distillery Co.
Cask: Apera (Sherry)
Cask/Batch No: FSPA1
Release Date: August 2020
Individually numbered
One of Australia’s best kept secrets is no longer!
Introducing the Furneaux Distillery, located in Bass Strait, north east of Tasmania on Flinders Island, where the whisky reflects the maritime environment of which it is born. Using 100% Tasmanian malt barley, pure rainwater and a unique local peat which is at once earthy and briny. This 50/50 peated Apera cask single-malt whisky uses 50% Scottish Peat and 50% Flinders Island peat which the distillery believes works together in “delicious harmony” with the South Australian sourced sherry cask.
The distillery released their four inaugural whiskies as part of Tasmanian Whisky Week 2020 receiving great reviews. The four batches were distilled by founder Damien Newton-Brown at Launceston and then aged at Flinders Island while their stillhouse was being built. Tom Ambroz, head Distiller has been distilling on Flinders island since September 2019.
All 4 varieties are available on our virtual shelves.
Our tasting notes:
Coming soon.
Official tasting notes:
German fruit cake and Port Royal tobacco dominates this flavour profile. Rich and sweet, with a lovely earthy backbone and a lingering root beer note on the finish. This whisky has an amazing confluence of flavours with Scottish peat, Flinders Island smoke and brine, and South Australian fortified wine all working together in delicious harmony.
John Atkins (verified owner) –
This is five stars…but the Furneaux local peat is better and also five stars…that’s the problem with five stars – no room to move it’s like trying to time the fastest swimmer with a clock that only has minutes. If that’s the case….I’m as fast Ian Thorpe. Get what I mean?
This drop is still excellent…but less excellent that the fully local peat version.. Same thing when Furneaux and Blackgate combined (Two of my favourites)….just didn’t live up to BlackGate and Furneaux on their own. Stick to your knitting.
But how many stars here is the wrong discussion. As Leo Burnett (Advertising guru) once said. “If you reach for the stars…you might not get one…but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.” No mud here. The stars are certainly in full view here from the zenith of Australian Whisky production. You can’t go wrong with Furneaux. Stellar!