Sullivans Cove – 18 Year Old French Oak Ex-White Wine Cask (No. TD0112)

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Sullivans Cove — 18 Year Old French Oak Ex-White Wine Cask (No. TD0112).

Sullivans Cove – 18 Year Old French Oak Ex-White Wine Cask (No. TD0112)
Tasmania.
ABV: 50.6% (single cask TD0112; 225L French oak barrique, 269 bottles)

Sullivans Cove – 18 Year Old French Oak Ex-White Wine Cask is Australia's most decorated whisky, by a margin. In fact it’s a modern day legend, having won an incredible four World's Best titles at the World Whiskies Awards. In 2014 its ex-tawny cask HH0525 was named World's Best Single Malt – the first whisky from outside Scotland or Japan ever to take that crown. This result, itself, put Australian whisky on the world map, overnight. It has since won the World's Best Single Cask Single Malt category three times over – in 2018, 2019, and again in 2026. No other Australian distillery has come close to matching these achievements. In fact these achievements are so significant that everyone, everywhere, references them.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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