- Sep 28, 2007
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Well said.I've ended up with a bottle of Hellyers Road Peated, in the most fortuitous of circumstances, and had been resisting the urge to open it for the last five months (particularly because it's been a long time since I tried it). Last night I could not resist.
I might be going a little early but I'd put it on par with Lark Cask Strength and the Limeburners Sherry Cask as my favourite of the Aussie whiskies, and by quite some way.
Australian whiskies tend to have a floral character and a sweetness that I associate with our bush (in the same way that a rye invokes an image of an American alpine forest or the way a bourbon sparks an image of floating down the Mississippi) and which I did not think would sit comfortably with the flavour of peat (in the same way that the Talisker Port cask, for example, end up being over the top).
I was not expecting competing flavours to be so balanced. It is absolutely delicious.
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