Belgrove 7 Year Old Ex-Maker's Mark Cask
Pure grain-to-glass class from Tasmania's iconic Belgrove Distillery. This 7YO, 100% rye whisky was created exclusively for Club Members and it’s a banger.
AustraliaColour Shimmering gold
Nose White peach and apricots, white chocolate mango, macadamia & vanilla sorbet, desiccated coconut and dill.
Palate Light citrus, peaches in syrup, red apples alongside white chocolate and cooking spices.
Finish Juicy mandarin, dried apricots and shaved almonds with cereal.
Overview
This limited edition came from the one and only Peter Bignell, Australia’s original mastermind of rye.
This small rye distillery based in Tasmania’s midlands has been dubbed ‘the greenest distillery in the world’, thanks to its zero waste, closed loop methodology. Peter is farmer, distiller, inventor, artist and all-round industry legend, converting used chip oil into biodiesel to fire his still, coopering his own barrels — he even built his own still. There’s nothing this man can’t do, and the proof is in the pudding with this latest offering from Belgrove.
Matured for seven years in an ex-Maker’s Mark cask, the naturally shimmering gold liquid holds an abundance of flavour: white chocolate, desiccated coconut, dill, and apricots. This 100% rye expression has been grown, malted, fermented, distilled and aged onsite; then finally bottled without any chill filtration at 66.2% ABV for an extra punchy finish.
If you’re a fan of American whiskey, you’re bound to fall for Peter’s creations. This single cask only yielded 105 bottles and they were exclusively for Club Members.
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Bottle size: 500ml
THE SPECS
Price: $195.00
Age: 7 Years Old
ABV: 66.2%
Maturation: Ex-Maker's Mark Cask
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Belgrove Distillery's History
Tasmania’s Belgrove Distillery is truly a special place, and Peter Bignell is a very special whisky maker. Bignell built the world’s greenest distillery in 2010, but what makes it the greenest in the world, you ask?
The distillery is zero waste and operates on a closed-loop system. In fact, the only thing that Bignell brings into the process is used cooking oil to make biofuel - but even that comes from the roadhouse just next-door to the distillery.
The biofuel plays a big part at Belgrove Distillery; it direct fires still, heats the water and also runs the tractors, forklift and other machinery on the property. Cooling water comes from the dam, and water waste is used for irrigation—often on the rye crop (of course he grows his own rye). And the spent mash is fed to the sheep.
Belgrove’s grain is grown on-site, and then it’s harvested and stored late in the summer. From there, the grain’s malted, mashed, fermented and double distilled in his handmade and repurposed equipment. Malting is done in a repurposed laundromat tumble dryer, and the 500-litre copper pot still was built by Peter himself.
For Bignell, making whisky is a hands-on process - one that requires the senses to manipulate every step of the way, as he monitors and tweaks according to his eye, nose and tastebuds.
A visit to Belgrove should be on every whisky-lovers bucket list, a remarkable distillery run by a remarkable man.
Distillery Facts
Region: Tasmania
Origin: Belgrove Distillery - 3121 Midland Hwy, Kempton TAS 7030
Founded: 2010
Water Source: Rainwater
Stills: 1, hand-built from scratch
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