Blackadder BEENLEIGH AUSTRALIAN Rum 13 Year Old 2007 65.5%

Blackadder BEENLEIGH AUSTRALIAN Rum 13 Year Old 65.5% 2007

Beenleigh is Australia’s oldest operating distillery, surrounded by both sugarcane and rum distilling history. They claim to have created Australia’s original Rum, back before even Coca-Cola was invented. Over 136 years later they are still crafting small-batch rum the traditional way, at their distillery on the banks of the Albert River in Eagleby QLD.

They source Australia’s finest molasses from the country’s only remaining family-owned sugar mill and others across Queensland- the ‘sweet-spot’ of Australia’s sugarcane industry.

Bottle Tasting Notes
NOSE: Light brown sugar, caramel, vanilla, honey, very ripe topical fruit (pineapple and banana?) ginger biscuits, oak

TASTE: Sugar cane, honeyed, vanilla caramel, biscuity, spiced warming oak

FINISH: Very soft tannins, smooth, the biscuity charred oak and vanilla caramel linger

Blackadder’s philosophy is very simple – they believe that the Cask is King. Sixty to seventy percent of the flavors in a whisky are taken up slowly from the cask as the spirit lies maturing in the warehouse. The action of changing temperature draws the spirit in and out of the cask.

A family operation started and piloted by whisky legend Robin Tucek, they sell to a few limited countries around the world, primarily Tiawan, Japan, the USA and Sweden.

Every cask is unique, with its own fingerprint. This is why they bottle most of their whiskies from single casks. They don’t believe in chilling or otherwise heavily filtering their whiskies, and they never, repeat never, add caramel coloring or flavoring to their spirits. They have always believed the personalities of their whiskies are colorful enough. Their raw cask is famous for the barrel char in each bottle.