{"title":"Hellyers Road Whisky","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"hellyers-road-16-year-old-created-exclusively-for-the-whisky-club","title":"Hellyers Road 16 Year Old","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe largest whisky distillery in Australia, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hellyers-road-whisky\"\u003eHellyers Road\u003c\/a\u003e has become well known and loved for its richly complex, fruity style of single malts. Thanks to strong and consistent production since inception, today Hellyers is in the most enviable position of all Australian distilleries in that it sits on a vast reserve of mature stock dating back to the very early 2000s. As a result it can do what no other local distillery can, feature a full core range including four NAS expressions (Original, Pinot Noir Finish, Peated and Slightly Peated), the 10 Year Old Slightly Peated and the recently released flagship 15 Year Old Original. The single cask Masters Series offers a very well priced glimpse into the distillery’s vast reserves and has understandably become very popular with connoisseurs, and finally of course there’s our 16 Year Old Limited Edition!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all Tasmanian distilleries, Hellyers uses locally grown Tasmanian barley and pure Tasmanian rain water. Barley is malted locally at Joe White Malting in Devonport, though the distillery did also bring in 50,000 tons of peated malt from Scotland back in 2004 allowing for production of their peated whiskies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst their size by comparison to other local distilleries is huge, in the overall scheme of things and by comparison to Scotland, with a capacity of 100,000 litres a year it’s still a tiny craft operation. The distillery is equally humble, “we think big and act big, but when compared to Europe’s finest, we’re actually quite small. And that’s good, because it keeps us trying hard. We try hard to produce Australia’s very best single malt whiskies.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt certainly helps to have really good gear when you’re on a mission to make the country’s best whisky. Hellyers Road features a whopping 60,000 litre wash still and a 20,000 litre spirit still all set up so that it can also be remotely controlled from Master Distiller Mark Littler’s home when he’s not in the distillery. So while we’re all tucked up in bed we can rest assured that Mark is making whisky for us around the clock!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou’ll find Hellyers Road’s unmistakably rich, complex and fruity style at its absolute best in our January whisky, a rare limited edition created exclusively for the Club and drawn from an historic set of first-grade first-fill American Oak casks laid down back in 2002. Crafted using premium Tasmanian barley and pure Tasmanian water this is some of Hellyers Road’s, and indeed Tasmania’s oldest whiskies and of course it’s non-chill filtered and bottled at natural colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA hallmark achievement in Australian whisky distilling, we couldn’t be happier to open 2019 with this superb example of Tasmania’s finest! Enjoy!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hellyers Road Distillery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46489907167311,"sku":"WC0101","price":135.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/1185\/7487\/files\/hellyers_road_16_year_old.png?v=1787700966"},{"product_id":"hellyers-road-16-year-old-single-cask","title":"Hellyers Road 16 Year Old Single Cask","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe next in our ongoing range of exceptional, hand-picked local whiskies representing the cream of Aussie whisky, this exclusive Finishing Cask Release is a first for \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hellyers-road-whisky\"\u003eHellyers Road\u003c\/a\u003e Distillery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichly complex and fruity, it’s a marriage of three of their very best 16 Year Old American Oak ex-bourbon casks (Cask #3240.01, Cask #3240.03 and Cask #3149.04) finished in casks that previously held Hellyers’ Gold Medal winning Peated whisky for an extra layer of depth, complexity and indulgence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBottled as Single Finishing Casks at natural cask strength, these are two absolutely superb, heavy and richly complex Tasmanian single malts with notes of \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ebush honey and vanilla\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e overlaid with a \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003esubtle smokiness and charred jam\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon’t miss one of the oldest, most delicious Tasmanian single malts ever released.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all else, this is whisky made for the Club by one of the Club - our great friend and Club Member Mark Littler, one of many Aussie distilling legends who we count as fellow Members. It's all the more special as one of Mark’s final releases before departing Hellyers at the end of 2020 after two decades at the helm of one of Australia’s founding distilleries - we'll raise a dram to that!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrders for the Hellyers Road 16 Year Old Single Cask are closed, but it's not too late to Sign Up Free now to be in line for our upcoming releases.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5owVc_YvpAA\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Hellyers Road Distillery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46489920569423,"sku":"WC0161","price":290.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/1185\/7487\/files\/hellyersroad_16year_2020.png?v=1787701058"},{"product_id":"hellyers-road-aged-16-years-pinot-noir-cask-finish","title":"Hellyers Road Aged 16 Years Pinot Noir Cask Finish","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe’re ABSOLUTELY THRILLED to present the Grand Finale in our hugely popular series of historic single malts from Australia’s biggest selling whisky distillery to Australia’s biggest community of whisky lovers:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHellyers Road Aged 16 Years Pinot Noir Cask Finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreated Exclusively for The Whisky Club by Master Distiller and long-time fellow Club Member Mark Littler, as his very last whisky project before leaving \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hellyers-road-whisky\"\u003eHellyers Road\u003c\/a\u003e after nearly two decades at the helm, this historically significant malt bears witness to the story of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tasmanian-whisky\"\u003eTasmanian whisky\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistilled at a time when there were only four other whisky distilleries in Australia and made using Gairdner barley, a variety used in the early 2000s to make some of Tasmania’s best whiskies including Lark and Sullivans famed older single casks, this is a whisky that’s matured for over half the time the Tassie whisky industry has even existed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected from whisky laid down in 2003 and 2004 it was finished in 2020 in the freshest Tasmanian Pinot Noir casks from Tasmania’s famous Tamar and Coal River valleys, the terroirs of the two wine regions imparting an added layer of complexity to compliment Hellyers’ unique marrying process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs soon as the finishing casks reached an optimum maturation point and a flavour profile that Littler was happy with, they were married using an old Scottish technique that’s unique to Hellyers in Australia and assists with integration of the whisky and helps it mellow out before being broken down to its final ABV for bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe secret is to dilute the whisky in the marrying vat to a unique ‘marrying’ strength before putting it into special ‘marrying casks’ and leaving them to settle for a further six months. Letting the whisky settle at a different ABV in these casks, and changing its solubility with the added water, affects its interaction with the sugars in the oak and this helps the whisky with its amalgamation even further.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce this process was completed, the whisky was decanted for a third time and broken down to 46.2% ABV and bottled non-chill filtered and natural in colour, exclusively for The Whisky Club.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat the French Oak Tasmanian Pinot Noir casks add to the already elegant and complex whisky is astonishing with the fruity orchard and berry notes of the wine casks really taking it to another level. This fruit forward whisky is complimented by some lovely buttery and integrated oak notes, leading to a fuller palate and a well-rounded finish as the flavour explodes in your mouth just like a chocolate liqueur. The flavours take you on a tour of Tasmania starting off with the apples and cherries of the Huon Valley, then along comes the malt and barley fields of Northern Tasmania before leaving you at one of Tasmania’s many wineries, with the rich wine influence remaining from the cask.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrafted from Tasmanian barley and pure Tasmanian water, drawn from the best first fill American Oak casks in the distillery and then finished in the freshest Tasmanian wine casks, this is Hellyers Road at its finest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot yet a Member? 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And this October, their 21 Year Old Single Cask is coming to the Club – so you can have your very own slice of this remarkable historic milestone from the oldest continually operating whisky distillery in the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFully matured in American Oak cask (number #2157.05) and filled on 6th June 2002, this single malt was distilled by one of the founders of the modern Australian whisky industry before Australian whisky was even a thing, hot on the heels of Lark and Sullivans Cove.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA little over two decades later, cask #2157.05 was bottled non-chill filtered with natural colour at its impressive natural cask strength of 62.4% ABV. In testament to its extraordinary years in cask, this single malt is smoother than silk and positively bursting with flavour. First on the nose are \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003edelicious aromas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e of \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003emarmalade\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003evanilla custard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. Then take a sip to reveal the \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003etropical fruits\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eorange blossom\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e that simply rupture out of the glass, alongside \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ewaves of thick butterscotch\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003esoft nuttiness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. A decadently long and creamy finish completes the phenomenal tasting experience, showcasing the age and balance of this fine dram.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"First, the juice in 2157.05 is absolutely delicious, and I understand why this cask was set aside early during its life for longer maturation. I am very fortunate to be beneficiary of the foresight from Pokes and Halpin who earmarked casks for extensive maturation early on, allowing us to live up to our position as Australia’s oldest continually operating whisky distillery.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e2157.05 was laid down on June 6 2002, and has matured beautifully in first-fill ex-Bourbon barrels for over 21 years and 2 months. The liquid is remarkably bright for a whisky of this age, and incredibly delicate for a cask strength expression at 62.4%.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Fiona Coutts, Head Distiller (acting), Hellyers Road Distillery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an amazing achievement for Australian whisky and such a collectable piece of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tasmanian-whisky\"\u003eTasmanian whisky\u003c\/a\u003e history. In honour of this, Hellyers Road has appropriately encased their showpiece in none other than precious Tasmanian timber boxes, hand-crafted in Northern Tasmania by Master Woodworker Rob van Tholen. Huon Pine, Myrtle and Celery Top Pine are seamlessly formed together, with a secret locking mechanism cleverly hidden in the design to keep your treasured single cask safe (and instructions on how to open it).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorically significant age statement whiskies don’t blow in every day, especially not one with such strong attention to detail in its making. When Sullivans Cove first released their “former oldest Australian whisky” it was $1800 and can now be found on the secondary market for upwards of $5,000, solidifying the significance of Australia’s founding whiskies distilleries. At $1,350 for 700ml, the Hellyers Road 21 Year Old Single Cask is an absolute steal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot yet a Member of the Club? \u003ca title=\"Join free today\" href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoin free today\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e to be part of Australia’s biggest whisky community and never miss the chance to get Australia’s best whisky offerings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hellyers Road Distillery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46490004881487,"sku":"WC0345","price":1350.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/1185\/7487\/files\/hrd21_pdp_main.png?v=1787701550"},{"product_id":"hellyers-road-vintage-triple-cask","title":"Hellyers Road Vintage Triple Cask","description":"\u003cp\u003eHellyers Road has come of age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks to the pure and consistent quality of the whisky across their range, they dominated at the 2024 World Whisky Awards, taking home a slew of golds and Most Awarded Distillery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt took fellow Tasmanians, Sullivans Cove, nearly 20 years from inception to winning World's Best Whisky in 2014. Hellyers Road's performance this year at the same competition is a turning point; it draws a new line in the sand for the distillery, and clearly signals to the world that Australian whisky is no one-trick pony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn April 2024 we all celebrated the success of the original \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/tasmanian-whisky\"\u003eTasmanian whisky\u003c\/a\u003e pioneers: Lark (1992), Sullivans Cove (1994), and Hellyers Road (1997), who set out against the odds to create the modern Australian whisky industry, now with over 100 distilleries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd how many Aussie distilleries can create a bespoke vintage release? The handful of comparable vintage Australian whiskies start at prices upwards of $250 for a far smaller 500ml bottle. That’s before even mentioning its specs and heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHellyers Road Vintage Triple Cask Created Exclusively for the Whisky Club is a vatting of two parcels of casks laid down in 2014 (Sherry and Port) and 2016 (American oak and Port), bottled in 2024 at 48.2% ABV, non-chill filtered and natural colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 2014 portion carries the Hellyers Road \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eorange blossom\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e true-line, while 2016 adds \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePort-rich nuttiness\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ecigar box\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. 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What’s on paper is merely a result of the best possible whisky that Hellyers Road could put in your glass, as a Member of The Whisky Club.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot yet a part of Australia’s biggest whisky community? \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca title=\"Sign Up Now\" href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eSign Up is free\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e and you won’t regret it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hellyers Road Distillery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46490019790927,"sku":"WC0381","price":145.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/1185\/7487\/files\/hellyersroadvintagetriplecask_pdp_main.png?v=1787701641"},{"product_id":"hellyers-road-10-year-old-peat-px","title":"Hellyers Road 10 Year Old Peated \u0026 Pedro Ximénez","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s time to complete our milestone \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"#\"\u003eAustralian Decade Series\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, with one of the modern Australian whisky industry’s four founding distilleries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd this is their first ever peated Sherry whisky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHellyers Road created this exclusive dram just for the Club by marrying a peated American oak cask with a Pedro Ximénez Sherry cask, then adding 20+ year old stock from their vaults, lending a beautiful silky quality and rounded structure that ties the two casks together. It's the perfect balance of sweet and peat: you won’t be able to get enough of the sticky baklava, mandarin, and light campfire smoke notes in this unique whisky, bottled non-chill filtered and with natural colour, at a wonderfully decadent 56.5% ABV.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith peat sourced directly from Scotland, and fortified casks from Spain and Portugal, this malt has an Old World whisky feel to it. With only 250 bottles of this special 10 Year Old made, it’s quality over quantity as ever with Hellyers Road.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst laying down spirit in the 1990s alongside Lark, Sullivans Cove and Bakery Hill, Hellyers have been staunchly refining their craft on the lonesome northwest Tasmanian coast for a quarter of a century. With their vast vaults of aged Aussie single malt, it came as no surprise when they were named Australia’s most awarded distillery at the World Whiskies Awards 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAvailable exclusively to Club Members, you’ll need to be up early on Friday 6 December to add this landmark Aussie 10 Year Old to your December delivery box.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot yet a Member? 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