STARWARD - Apera Single Cask - French Connections - 58.5%
Starward Distillery is located in Melbourne’s city centre, in Australia. It was founded in 2008 by Davide Vitale, who grew up in a big Italian family. The first bottling under the Starward name was released in 2013. All the whisky ingredients are sourced locally and the whiskies are aged in red wine barrels.
Apera is aged in a cask previously containing an Australian fortified wine similar to a Spanish sherry called Apera (225 litres). The Single Malt was distilled in 2016 and bottled in 2020. The Single Cask (#1866) produced 240 bottlesexclusively for La Maison du Whisky.
Unpeated