This bottling marks the very first Amber Lane whisky to be matured full term in a single bourbon barrel – and what a treat it is.

Amber Lane distillery is renowned for their large, premium barrel program, longer maturation cycles, and the careful application of European distilling principles not seen before on our fine shores. Rod and Phil were a delight to work with and we couldn’t have asked for a tastier collaboration with two gentlemen who operate with joy and integrity.

For this release, we kept it super simple, targeting Amber Lane’s first fill bourbon barrels with Phil and Rod like kids in a candy shop. We settled on a robust, Heaven Hill first-fill, ex Bourbon barrel that we decided needed a few more months in the vessel to really sing. And the result….?

Not only did it sing, it bellowed out a soothing, Gregorian chant with accompanying tones of honey on toast, burnt butter, digestive biscuits, white chocolate, vanilla menthol, candy cane and crisp elegance. As a full term, first-fill, bourbon barrel, the spirit to wood synergy is bang on – the perfect storm in ex-bourbon maturation. As with all our releases, this Amber Lane beauty has been bottled straight from the cask at a cask strength of 61% ABV. Non-chill-filtered and with no added colour, this is as natural as cask strength whisky gets. Unadulterated, pure and distinctly Australian.