Tasmanian whisky has cleaned up at the 2014 World Whisky Masters this year, with multiple entries scoring medals! The judges were impressed by the whiskies from Hellyers Road Distillery, which were “well constructed” and fruity, while an Ultra-Premium entry from Overeem was also described as “well balanced and accessible”. Australiasian Single Malt Ultra-Premium Company Product Name …
The US Ambassador to Australia is planning to introduce Tasmanian whisky to President Barack Obama. Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich is so taken with the island state’s award-winning single malts he was planning to pick up some bottles for President Obama on a visit to Hobart today. “He likes a whisky,” Ambassador Bleich told reporters. “I’ve already …
Sullivans Cove, Tasmania’s luxury single malt whisky, has been named Southern Hemisphere Whisky of the Year in Jim Murray’s 2013 Whisky Bible. Sullivans Cove French Oak Cask HH509 scored 96.5/100, the highest score ever achieved by a Southern Hemisphere whisky, and was named Southern Hemisphere Whisky of the Year. It is one of only 60 …
Sullivans Cove, Tasmania’s luxury single malt whisky, won a Gold and four Silver medals and was voted Australasian Distiller of the Year at the inaugural Wizards of Whisky blind tasting in London on Friday. Founded by world-renowned whisky writer and commentator Dominic Roscrow to recognise and reward excellence in whisky making outside of Scotland, the …
AUSTRALIA’S only female distiller, Jane Overeem of Blackmans Bay, says Tasmania’s whisky is the best in the world.
Her family business Old Hobart Distillery is Tasmania’s newest whisky distillery but has already won a number of international awards for its product.
Ms Overeem, 25, started distilling whisky with her father, Casey, in 2007.
The Old Hobart Distillery was launched in December last year and has been selling whisky to local, interstate and international markets ever since.
It received the highest score from the Malt Whisky Society of Australia for Australian whisky of 2012, and was awarded overall winner of the Australian section at the World of Whisky event in Sydney.
Ms Overeem said while whisky distilling was still very much a man’s world, women were slowly getting more involved.
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