Furneaux Distillery Co. ‘Unpeated Double Oak’ Single Malt Whisky 500ml 48%

The final independent bottling from Cask #UDO1 that yielded 480 bottles.

Details
500ml: 48%alc
Region: Flinders Island, TAS
Bottler: Furneaux Distillery Co.
Cask: Tawny/Bourbon
Cask/Batch No: UDO1
Release January2022
Individually numbered

Description
Distilled in Launceston, Tasmania and forged by the chaotic seas of the Bass Strait, this whisky is a double oaked, unpeated expression which actually has around 20-30% peated malt in the composition. Blended on Flinders Island by Head Distiller Tom Ambroz, the spirit was matured in 20 litre ex Tawny and ex Bourbon casks for approximately 2.2yrs, then decanted, diluted from Flinders coastal rainwater tanks and put through a series of blending trials to marry the dominant bourbon notes with the soft sweetness of Australian tawny. It was then set to breathe for a number of weeks after blending, and non-chill filtered for bottling.

This expression represents the end of an era and is one of the last whiskies Furneaux will release (as an IB) from the spirit distilled at Launceston, before their Flinders Island distillery spirit is mature in 2022.

The Distillery comments:
“The latest release from Furneaux Distillery is the Unpeated Double Oak. This whisky is an interesting one; in our first few batches of spirit “gypsy-distilled” at Launceston Distillery before our own distillery was operational, we were playing around with the composition of Flinders peated malt in the mash bill. Some were 100%, some were 30-40% to test a lighter peat profile.

The spirit from those “lightly peated” runs was so subtle in its peat influence that we decided to not release it as a peated expression, reserving that title for the more intensely smoky spirits”