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A unique 18-year-old malt whisky named The Journeyman, believed to be the oldest Australian whisky available on the market.
This limited once-only batch (less than 200 bottles) has seen a great deal of the Australian countryside, travelling over 4000km from Tasmania, to Victoria and finally settling in the Swan Valley.
Distilled at Sullivans Cove outside Hobart in November 1999, The Journeyman spent 14 years in an American ex-bourbon barrel before travelling to Melbourne’s Starward New World Whisky Distillery in 2014, where it was transferred into two first-fill Australian Apera casks. Distiller James Young of Old Young’s, who transferred them to the Swan Valley and finished the whisky in a single 30-year-old rare muscat cask from John Kosovich Wines.
Two variants of The Journeyman were produced – the cask-strength Black label produced just 99 bottles. All sold out. The remaining 380 bottles of the White label at 46% were released to market before Christmas with around 200 remaining priced at $215 each for 500mL.