Hellyers Road – Anniversary Collection Grain 21 Club Blue Gum

Hellyers Road – Anniversary Collection Grain 21 Club Blue Gum
Burnie, Tasmania.
ABV: 49% (21 Club Blue Gum, the featured 21-year-old; 700ml, ~16 years American oak ex-bourbon then ~5 years tawny port cask).

Hellyers Road is on a great streak. It has won at the World Whiskies Awards every year for more than a decade – an unbroken run of category wins reaching back beyond 2016 that no other Australian distillery can match. In 2026 alone it took four Australian categories, among them the 21-year-old Blue Gum (Australian Single Malt 21 Years and Over) and the 20-year-old Anniversary grain (Best Australian Grain). What makes the record remarkable is that Hellyers Road does it at scale and at age: it is one of Tasmania's largest and most established distilleries, it sits on unusually deep stocks of properly old whisky – releasing 20- and 21-year-olds while much of the industry is still waiting for its spirit to grow up. And it isn't only in the game of rare old casks – back in 2022 a Hellyers Road entry-level 12 Year Old was named Best Australian Single Malt outright.