@@k-k-k-kenny Tasmanian Whisky ? Enlighten me

Check out Sullivan's Cove from Tas. Won whiskey of the world in one competition. Hard to buy now and EBay is charging up to 400% mark up

@@djb if cognac is to your palate I'm sure it would be worth trying some of the better brandys or possibly Armanaics aswell.

Dude, that's actually super offensive. No-ones heritage should be casually subjected to that kind of biggotry. Respect always. However, I do share your dislike of American Whiskey.

On a more positive note....

Check out Bad Frankie just off Smith St. ONLY Australian booze and they know their stuff....

Peace

My apologies to any Americans or their offspring who are offended

Edited February 21, 201610 yr by andythiing

I keep waiting for Melbourne's own Bakery Hill to be discovered. The cask strength is a real pleasure.

 

Sullivan's Cove, from my small sampling, should be at the $140 mark and not the current price. Who am I to doubt the experts? Good on them for making a success of it.

Yes: Sullivan's Cove and Bakery Hill are both surprisingly good, made by very serious distillers.  Not cheap, though.  (I'd not realised that Sullivan's Cove was now so feckin expensive, but more power to them if they can sell it at their current prices.)

Some of the Japanese whiskies are also very fine: as in so many things, Japanese admiration begets imitation begets mastery.  And Tomatin, Auchentoshan, Bowmore, Glen Garrioch and one or two other Scots distilleries are now Japanese owned.

@@k-k-k-kenny interesting you mention Tomatin as it was the only distillery my wife and I visited when in Scotland.

 

Is it available in Australia?

I'm pretty sure it is, if you poke around a bit.  Not amongst the most expensive, either.  Here's a trivial fact: former Governor General Sir Ninian Stephen grew up in Tomatin to about age 13 or so.

Tomatin is available, but typically not from the commoners (DMs/Liquorland, 1st Choice, etc). Some of your specialty sellers like Nick's & Nippy Sweetie stock it.

Interestingly, the Tomatin distillery currently produces more whisky each year than any other distillery in Scotland - 5,000,000 litres! The vast majority of it is used in blends for other producers.

 

Bakery Hill was my first Aussie whisky - in fact, one of the first single malts I ever sampled. Just recently revisited it with their peated malt cask strength - really delicious and a great buy for a local whisky...but slightly overpriced compared to international offerings (Talisker 57^o North or Lagavulin 16yo, for example).

Sullivan's Cove used to be similarly priced; $120'ish for their 43% and $160-$180 for their cask strength. They were great buying, but then they won the World Whisky award 3yrs ago and since then have not been able to meet (mostly international) demand. Demand drives prices up and the hype is still there, keeping prices well above $350 a bottle. They do tend to do VERY limited local releases of stock through their website once or twice a month, but it is typically less than 10 bottles per instance so you have to be quick AND lucky.