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.
Bakery Hill's first ever 10-year-old whisky
The inaugural bottle in the series was 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.
We kicked off with a super special one — the first ever 10 Year Old age statement from Bakery Hill, the Australian mainland’s OG whisky distillery turning out Speyside Scotch-style single malts since the '90s.
Freshly bottled after a full ten-year maturation in a single ex-Jack Daniel's barrel, and bottled at 57% ABV, this one-off, Club-exclusive whisky is absolutely popping with lemon sherbet, baked apple, pecans and strawberry creams.
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Overeem's first ever 10-year-old whisky
The second release in the Australian Decade Series was the first ever 10-year-old from one of Australia’s founding distilleries and one of the last casks distilled by Aussie whisky legend Casey Overeem himself.
The second bottle in the series is This one-off single cask is lightly peated and matured in a refill Sherry cask. Bottled at 59.5% ABV, non-chill filtered and natural colour, Overeem 10 Year Old Lightly Peated Sherry Cask is a unique piece of Aussie whisky history.
It delivers glorious rich layers of hazelnut praline, chewy toffee, nougat, dried plum with delicate Tasmanian highland smoke.
This precious single cask yielded very few bottles and Overeem is incredibly popular. Bottles were available exclusively to Whisky Club Members for $425. If you’re not a Member, join the Club free now to get your hands on benchmark whiskies from Australia and the world.
Limeburners' first ever age statement whisky
The third release in the Australian Decade Series was Limeburners 10 Year Old Created Exclusively for The Whisky Club. This was the first ever ten-year-old and age statement from the Western Australian distillery, which was also their oldest release yet. And it came directly — and exclusively — to Club Members.
With a collection of gold medals already under their belts, they absolutely nailed this 10-year-old single cask.
At a cask strength of 57.0% ABV, this unpeated and unadulterated full American Oak maturation has waves of thick peach yoghurt, cookies & cream ice cream, and a lift of lightly roasted coffee on the palate, preceded with fresh lemon meringue and poached pear on the nose. You can taste each year of West coast maturation in the lingering, mouthwatering finish.
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McHenry's first ever cask strength 10-year-old whisky
The fourth much-anticipated bottle in the history-making series is the McHenry 10 Year Old French Oak Port Cask: Cask Strength. This is the first cask strength 10-year-old from Australia's southernmost whisky distillery, and it's delicious. You can get your hands on the last of these bottles right now, but only as a Member.
Created exclusively for The Whisky Club as with all the others in the Australian Decade Series, this 55.0% ABV cask strength single cask is a trailblazing Tasmanian whisky with a full French Oak Port cask maturation. Like Sullivans Cove, McHenry are known for championing Scottish-style long maturations in larger casks, but with a coastal twist.
It started with a rare 1988 French Oak 230L barrel that held Port since 1988. In 2014, McHenry filled this barrel with their single malt and waited ten long years before bottling — perfectly in time to join our landmark Aussie Decade Series, the oldest multi-distillery collection of Australian whiskies.
This superb limited edition swirls with gooey spiced nougat, pistachio, and Swiss milk chocolate, with a finish of rich oak and blueberry pie.
Join the Club free today — if you're quick you can and order yours for just $195. First in, first served while stocks last.
How to get your hands on the final Australian Decade Series whisky
There's one more to go and you won't want to miss it. This incredible series is only available to Members of The Whisky Club.
If you're not a Member yet, simply join free now to get your hands on the last in this groundbreaking limited-edition seris of Aussie single malts.
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