Beenleigh Artisan Distillery 13 Years Old The Duchess Cask 38 63.4% 2007
€ 75,02 (in Vat)
| Distillery | Beenleigh Artisan Distillery |
| Bottler | The Duchess |
| Serie | Platypus Special Edition |
| Bottled for | |
| Distilled date | 2007 |
| Bottling date | 2021 |
| Country | Australia |
| Region | South Australia |
| Age | 13 |
| Cask Type | Refill Bourbon Cask |
| Cask Number | 38 |
| Alcohol percentage | 63.4 |
| Volume | 0,70 |
| Condition | Perfect |
| Label | Perfect |
| Stock |
Professional reviews
BOW (88)
10 Years Oceanian Aging
OTHER (87)
Maltsfascination.com:
Sniff:
Weirdly funky with paint stripper and oak. Sweet sugarcane, quite chemical, but also with some red fruits, and apricot.
Sip:
The palate isn’t too sharp with some warm-up (as in, you should work up to this). Peppery heat, chemical paint stripper, but other things too. Fruits, grassy notes of sugarcane. Apricot, cherries and strawberries.
Swallow:
The finish is more typical of good rum, a bit sweeter. More herbaceous than sweet, but all on steroids.
While this paint-stripper stuff sounds negative, it actually is not. It does remind me a little bit of the gentler St. Lucia rums, and those are quite lovely. It’s a bit like peated whisky differs from unpeated whisky.
All in all this is quite a lovely drink, and because of it’s history and rather unique origins (yes, I know Bundaberg rum exists) it makes it all the more interesting.
