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The Greatest Southern Distilling Company!
The Greatest Southern Distilling Company!
The Great Southern Distillery was first opened in 2004 by Cameron Syme, who spent time working for a multinational commercial law firm, at that time he had 10 years’ experience as an accountant in Australia and the United Kingdom and gained a UK Trades Board “General Certificate in Distilling”.
Cameron’s research was very thorough taking him 14 years to collect enough resources and information to create something extra special.
His heritage was in fact from Scotland where his family history of distilling took place, so owning a distillery seemed like it was destiny.
The distillery is very small by world standards but they like it this way as it helps to spend more time producing quality single malt whisky. Each batch of spirit is produced and bottled by hand which means that they only produce spirit of the highest standard.
“Our first released single malt whisky won a medal at the London Wine and Spirit show in 2008. We believe this is testament to our product” – Cameron Syme
One of the great things about the process of making their single malt is that ingredients are sourced locally and the distillery is powered by the local Albany wind farm making the distillery extremely sustainable.
The barrels sourced for maturation of the spirit are carefully chosen. The distillery uses single and double barrel maturation, in an array of oak cask which include Bourbon and old Australian Apera, Port and Tokay. Some of the barrels used are over 80 years old.
Limeburners can trace the provenance of some of their barrels to the US bourbon houses in the 1930’s and 1940s. The distillery also uses some wine barrels and brandy barrels for whisky maturation. The barrels can be refilled up to 3 times and then they are passed to wineries to help in the process of making fortified wines, an evolution of flavours.
Limeburners has won Gold, Silver and Bronze medals at international spirit competitions, and the world’s leading whisky critic had this to say:
Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible 2012
“beautiful mouth feel: my word, this is well made spirit!”
“This no age statement malt spent an unspecified amount of time in American brandy cask before being finished in bourbon casks. Does it work? Yes it does. But now that’s torn it lads. You are supposed to start off with a bloody horrible whisky and get better. Now you have gone and made a rod for your own back. Good on you!”
“another big grapey statement from Limeburners. The fruit is thick, clean, sugar-soaked and dripping from the barley; the playful spices on the oak are to die for”
here are our top picks from this incredible companies portfolio…………..
Tiger Snake Small Batch Australian Whiskey
Our Tasting Notes
Nose: Freshly cooked hazelnut cake with creme mousseline and vanilla buttercream. Fragrant morning grass covered in dew with freshly ground Rye and malted barley.
Palate: The nose rallies to the palate giving caramelised hazelnut and vanilla mousse, apple scented tuile with a side of rye crisp-bread. Freshly cooked porridge drizzled with honey and sprinkles of toasted slithered almonds.
Finish: Vanilla Cremeux, with dustings of cocoa and toffee sweetness. I really love this whiskey.
Batch 13 is now available here
Limeburners Sherry Cask Small Batch Single Malt Whisky
The Great Southern Distilleries Standard Single Malts are 43% abv and have been brought down from barrel strength by filtered rain water.
Made and hand bottled at the Great Southern Distillery on the harbour’s edge in Albany, this complex and elegant single malt whisky is distilled in traditional small batch copper pot stills from local barley.
Tasting Notes
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