Joadja NSW Southern Highlands Single Malt Whisky Release No 1

Joadja NSW Southern Highlands Single Malt Whisky Release No 1

$1,265 AUD

48% 500 ml

This was Joadja distillery’s very first Single Malt Whisky release, which is small cask aged in an American ex-Oloroso barrel. It is already out of circulation and so has gained immediate collector status.

Bottle No 1 was presented to the Scottish-Australian music legend Jimmy Barnes on 1 April 2017 at the Brigadoon Scottish Festival in Bundanoon in the NSW Southern Highlands, the home of Joadja. If Jimmy drank it, then the remaining bottles will have become even rarer!

Here we have bottle No 2, hence the price.

This product is located in Australia.

Distillery

JOADJA DISTILLERY

About an hour and a half’s drive from Sydney into the glorious Southern Highlands but hidden away from the usual tourist tracks is a most extraordinary relic of Australia’s industrial history into which has been inserted a delightful malt whisky distillery of craft proportions. Whether you are a history buff or a whisky lover, this is a must go to destination, and if you are both, it is a day in heaven.

It is against this fascinating historical background that Valero Jimenez and his wife Elisa, both of whom migrated from Spain as children with their respective parents, and subsequently became owners of the now deserted but well-preserved town of Joadja, have developed a pristine small-scale Highland malt distillery. And the product, if my sampling of their First Release is anything to go by, is a characterful tribute to Joadja’s Scottish heritage.

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