Tasting notes: 94/100 – 2016 Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible
The tannins are up for a battle. Sharp spices and punchy Demerara sugars offer full support; now that is quite beautiful. The malt melts early in the proceedings, accompanied by those sugars. But it’s the intensity of the mildly belligerent tannins and the way they dovetail with the Demerara and maple syrup which really wins your heart, a long oak laden fade., The vanilla runs into butterscotch while the spices carry. A massive whisky which maximises the tannins and sugars, yet never faintly goes. Beautiful!
Sullivans Cove 14 Year Old French Oak Cask HH0386 700ml 47.5%
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Twice Gold Medal Award Winner in 2016 that yielded 490 bottles.
Details
700ml: 47.5%alc
Age: 14 years
Region: Cambridge, Tasmania
Cask type: French Oak Port cask
Bottler: Tasmania Distillery
Cask No: HH0386
Filled on: 7th of July 2000
Decanted on: 17th of February 2015
Individually Numbered.
Bottling Notes
Gold Medal: (2016 World Whisky Masters) – Gold Medal: (2016 Luxury Spirits Masters)
Here’s a Gold Medal, multi-award-winning, rare bottling of Sullivans Cove from the highly sort after fourth generation “HH” era that was matured for 14 years in a French oak Port cask in 2000 and decanted in 2015. This was the first modern version of the standard Sullivans Cove range also known as ‘4th Generation Sullivans Cove’ (2008-2016). These labels finally gave Sullivans Cove a unique identity that would become an Australian icon, and is the basis for the branding the distillery uses today.
The bottles were also the first to feature the side tag with unique cask and bottle info for each batch. At that time, the distillery was known as “Tasmania Distillery” and Sullivans Cove was just the brand name for the whisky produced there. Now both the distillery and the whisky are called Sullivans Cove, so you won’t see “Produced by Tasmania Distillery” on any rear labels of Sullivan’s Cove whisky from 2017 to today.
Interesting fact.
The cask initial HH stands for ‘Hobart Holdings’ that changed to Tasmania Distillery back in 2001. All French Oak HH casks are now on their way out (sold) with the exception of 1 last barrel.
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