NEW ZEALAND 1988 SINGLE CASK

A rare single-cask release from closed New Zealand distillery Willowbank – the world’s southernmost distillery until its destruction in the late 1990s. Distilled in 1988 and bottled in 2017 exclusively for The Whisky Exchange, this is a rich, well-aged dram with all the fruity intricacy and deep-rooted wood influence one might expect from a whisky on the brink of its third decade. A fine, one-off bottling that won’t be around for long.

An exceptionally rare single malt from the long lost Willowbank distillery. For many years, the site on New Zealand’s South Island was the southernmost distillery in the world. It was mothballed in 1997 and its stills were shipped to Fiji where they embarked on a new life making rum. This single cask shows perfectly what Willowbank was all about – intense tropical fruit and an old-school waxiness on the palate.

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