Morris Rutherglen ‘Muscat Barrel’ Finished Single Malt Whisky 700ml 46%

From Australia’s iconic fortified wine makers comes their inaugural, award-winning, single malt whisky.

Details
700ml: 46% alc
Region: Victorian Riverlands
Cask Type: Ex-wine/Muscat finish
Release Date: Late June 2021

Description:
When titans of the wine and whisky world come together to create whisky, you know you’re in for one hell of a single malt. So, in 2016, when the winery reached out to the late Dr. Jim Swan (former Springbank Master Distiller), and Master Distiller John McDougal (of Balvenie and Laphroaig fame), to consult on their whisky program, we just knew something special was brewing at the Rutherglen estate. Then, throw in a restored hybrid copper pot and column still that was originally installed at the Morris’s winery in the early 1930’s to produce base spirits for fortified wine, and unrivalled access to fortified wine barrels for finishing their whisky, and the foundations for beautiful single malt whisky was complete.

This inaugural, Muscat finished expression was made with Australian barley malted at the family brewery and pure, filtered water from the Snowy Mountains, and then matured in a combination of  toasted French and American oak ex-wine barrels before being finished in rare Morris Muscat barrels, previously used to create multi-award-winning Muscat.

The whisky is available at a very palatable retail price and will prove extremely popular, not to mention the potential for the avid collector as a first release.