23RD STREET AUSTRALIAN WHISKY 40% 700ML

23RD STREET AUSTRALIAN WHISKY 40% 700ML

The latest release – delightfully devoid of any tag name or variant and simply styled “23rd Street Australian Whisky” – sports a blue label and is reasonably minimalist in details about the spirit.  The label simply states American oak ex-bourbon, and the whisky has been bottled at 40% ABV. Beyond what’s stated on the label, we can advise that the spirit in the bottle is a vatting (blend) of many casks – mostly 2+ years old, but with some older stock added in to provide depth, balance, and complexity.  The parent company behind 23rd Street also owns the Beenleigh Distillery (based in Queensland and known as the home of Beenleigh Rum), and a portion of the distillate for this bottling came from the Beenleigh distillery using wash supplied from Carlton United Breweries Yatala plant.  (Strictly speaking, this thus makes this whisky a Double Malt!)  The component spirits from the Renmark and Beenleigh sites were then all blended and left to marry in large format oak vats before bottling.  

The result is a soft, sweet, and balanced whisky that – despite its darker colour – happily falls more in the malt-led (aka spirit-driven) category of Australian whisky (as opposed to oak-driven) and is thus very drinkable and more-ish.

Our tasting notes for the whisky are produced in full below.  The whisky is available now from leading national retailers around the country, and also online at Sippify.  (Our tip is to grab your bottle from Sippify – this is the distributor’s own store and thus provides ready access to 23rd Street Distillery’s other products.)
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Brand: 23rd Street
Country: Australia
Varietal: Whisky
Container Type: Bottle
ABV %: 40