Thomson Whisky - 18 Year Old NZ Single Malt

Thomson Whisky - 18 Year Old NZ Single Malt

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The origin of this Thomson Whisky 18 year old single cask bottling is Willowbank Distillery, Dunedin, a now dismantled distillery and home of the beloved Wilson’s brand. The cask was hand selected by the Thomson family in 2009 when they catalogued the barrel house in Oamaru, carefully going through the over 400 casks present. The cask was bottled and released in 2010 onto the NZ market as an 'independent bottling' under the Thomson name. At that time Thomson Whisky were independent bottlers and were making a name for their careful selections.

As legend goes Willowbank Distillery spent time perfecting a large batch of single malt in latter years, which never made it to market under its own brand names. It sat maturing in American oak in the South Island before being purchased by various buyers including the Thomson's. This stock displays the distinct Willowbank flavour notes; vanilla, cinnamon spice, citrus and hints of sea salt owing to the locality of maturation (which was coastal, with the salt air penetrating the cask and making it into the final flavour of the whisky).

It is important to the history of NZ whisky as the distillery is now closed, and the stock helped kick off the new wave whisky movement in NZ aiding the popularity of Thomson Whisky before they opened their own distillery.

Single cask bottling.
No chill-filtering. No colouring.
46%


Notes: Sea air on the nose, with banoffee and nutmeg on the palate.

 

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Thomson Whisky

Thomson love what they do; making craft whisky for the modern enthusiast. After a few years mucking about on a home still and learning as much as we could about whisky  they began the Thomson Whisky project as Independent Bottlers. They got hold of a few barrels of aged single malt from Willowbank Distillery, Dunedin, carefully selected to their personal tastes, to launch under the Thomson name. They started telling people about their whisky, sharing a drink with friends, then bartenders, and shops and people travelling overseas and their project started firing. A few years down the road and things have changed a lot. They are now distilling themselves like mad out in West Auckland.