Why The Australian Decade Series is so special
Australian whisky lovers, you haven’t seen anything like this before. For the first time, Australian 10-year-old whiskies have ever stood side-by-side as a part of a series. But why is The Australian Decade Series so significant?
The Australian Decade Series is the oldest ever multi-distillery collection of Australian whiskies from some of the country’s founding whiskymakers. This unrepeatable collection of 10-year-old single casks stand together to celebrate the modern Aussie whisky industry's coming of age.
“This series marks an important milestone for Australian whisky, which has grown from 28 whisky distilleries in 2014 to over 150 distilleries in 2024,” says The Whisky Club’s Co-Founder, Emily Ashbolt Cason.
The cogs of the Australian whisky industry as we know it started in the 90s. But it started with a simple question in the late 80s when Bill Lark famously asked the question that spawned Australia’s craft distilling movement: why wasn’t anybody making whisky in Tasmania?
This simple question sparked an idea, which led to reform. Flash forward, and Lark Distillery was founded in 1992 which created a movement, and the rest is whisky history.
But, it was a slow burn. And only a few distilleries were operating by the year 2000. Come 2014, and fellow Tassie distillery Sullivans Cove French Oak was named 'World's Best Single Malt' at the World Whiskies Awards.
The win cemented Australia into the whisky-verse, carving the way for every craft distillery in the country. People across the globe started seeking out Aussie whisky. In turn, this has seen a huge proliferation of new distilleries popping up across the country.
”For some of the founding distilleries we’ve worked with on The Decade Series, this is the first time they’ve released 10-year-old whisky, and we’re humbled to now be bringing it to Australian whisky drinkers around the country,” Ashbolt Cason says.
The inaugural bottle in the series is the Bakery Hill 10 Year Old Single Cask, the first ever 10-year-old age statement whisky from mainland Australia’s founding craft single malt distillery. The second release is the Overeem 10 Year Old Lightly Peated Sherry Cask, Overeem’s first ever 10-year-old and one of the last casks distilled by legendary Australian distiller Casey Overeem. The latest much-anticipated bottle in the history-making series is the Limeburners 10 Year Old Created Exclusively for The Whisky Club. This is the first ever ten year old and age statement from the Western Australian distillery.
This incredible series is only available to Members of The Whisky Club. Join free now to get your hands on this limited edition series.
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