Belgrove Peated Rye Whisky 2017 - Historic

Belgrove Peated Rye Whisky 2017 - Historic

$440 AUD

52.4% ABV

500 m

Bottled on 25 January 2017.  As stated on the label, as signed by the distiller, Peter Bignell, the rye is peat smoked, brewed and distilled, at the distillery. Now of historic proportions, an increasingly scarce example of the much celebrated peated rye version of the increasingly celebrated Belgrove rye whisky.

Official Tasting Notes

Colour: golden,

Nose: slightly meaty, cold smoke, quite sweet with some vanilla and honey fudge'

Palate: smoky and fruity, quite sweet with some cold ash aromas, caramel, earthy like a campfire in a warm summer rain, burned apricot,

Finish: more warm smoke towards the end, slightly meaty, still earthy like a warm summer night with some rain drops falling on a paved road.

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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