Wattleseed Smoked Cask Single Malt Whisky
$219As part of Archie Rose’s ongoing commitment to producing truly original spirits, we are proud to introduce the Archie Rose Smoked Cask Series. For these limited edition whiskies, we’ve created four Archie Rose Single Malt Whiskies matured in casks smoked with some of nature’s most iconic botanicals.
Each of the four whiskies in this series showcases a different natural ingredient, each offering its own unique character to the whisky. The first in the series, Wattleseed Smoked Cask Single Malt Whisky, reveals notes of bacon cooked over a campfire, roasted macadamia and caramel fudge.
Description
Tasting Notes
Flavour profile
Nose
Campfire, pork crackling, and dark roasted coffee beans combine beautifully with a malty caramel fudge backbone and more subtle notes of peach skins, lanolin and lantana stem.
Palate
Bacon cooked over a campfire, flaky shortbread and heavily roasted macadamia and hazelnut coat the palate, supported by papaya, leather, rose and baking spice.
Finish
Long and complex interplay of biscuit, fruit, roasted nuts and smokey bacon.
A Different Method For Creating A Smoked Whisky
Collaborating with one of Australia’s most respected coopers, we gently smoked Archie Rose Single Malt casks with iconic natural ingredients to create a truly distinctive series that continues our exploration of uniquely Australian smoked whisky.
The casks used to mature this single malt were smoked with native Australian wattleseed, delivering a whisky with notes of hazelnuts, Anzac biscuits and discreet smoke.
We collaborated with a multi-generational Australian family cooperage to carefully smoke the inside of our empty whisky casks with a range of botanicals. This patient process allows the flavour of each botanical to infuse into the timber itself, and in turn, to the whisky during maturation.
Wattle seeds need fire to germinate, so in burning this uniquely Australian ingredient to smoke our whisky casks, we're giving life to a whole new layer of flavour, and a whole new style of Australian single malt whisky.
Rich, smoky notes of Australian campfire and prosciutto - a little goes a long way.