Description
Every single malt whisky has a story to tell. Few, if any, have a tale comparable with ours. Our history touches the history of New Zealand. It involves our South Island landscape. More than this, it represents the determination of earlier generations to match the finest single malts they had known in the distant corners of their Scottish homeland.
Oamaru Barrel Room
Those that conceived this ambition, unwittingly provided The New Zealand Whisky Company with a limited volume of supreme quality single malt, when they first laid our casks to mature. As, once made, this single malt was forgotten. Time passed. People moved away. The knowledge of it all but disappeared. Its casks of single malt slept for a decade, undisturbed, overlooked, unknown. Some have lain still longer. The distillery, the last such in New Zealand was dismantled. The story seemed to end.
Their discovery is a story too long perhaps to be told here. Suffice it to say that a whisky of a superb quality and unique heritage has been brought into the daylight.
