Belgrove Oat Whisky 2017 - Historic

Belgrove Oat Whisky 2017 - Historic

$480 AUD

62.5% ABV

500 ml

Bottled on 14 January 2017.  As stated on the label, as signed by the distiller, Peter Bignell, the oats are grown, mashed, brewed and distilled at the distillery. A very rare, almost experimental whisky which first appeared to much acclaim. This was a very worthy successor and is now of similar scarcity.

Official Tasting Notes

Colour: golden sunshine

Nose: creamy texture, quite a sweet nose, soft and complex, fresh white bread dough, some tropical fruit – short before being overripe, nutty-oily,

Palate: a variety of nuts – mainly hazelnut, grainy, caramel, fudge, creamy, peppery, the addition of water reveals more overripe fruit aromas

Finish: creamy, peppery, roasted aromas with a tad of smoke

This product is located in Australia.

Distillery

Belgrove Distillery

Belgrove is at the micro end of the spectrum of Tasmanian distilleries and is one of a range of small but intriguing producers. The most hands-on of these is Peter Bignell’s paddock to bottle rye whisky operation. Both barley and rye are grown on site, harvested, malted, distilled, and the resulting spirit aged in wood and bottled at the distillery by hand. The farm and distillery equipment are bio-fuelled using waste cooking oil from a nearby fish and chip shop! Water used for production is rainfall captured on the roofs of the farm and distillery buildings. And the residual pulp from the distilling process is fed to Peter's livestock as an alternative to their normal feed. They, in turn, provide fertilizer for the next crop of rye - a truly environment friendly operation!

There is invariably something new and exciting coming out of Belgrove and we shall try and have them on the website as they become available.

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