The distillery that bet everything on Australian rye – made from Mallee grain and sold back into rye's American heartland.

The proof that Australian whisky was never only an eastern-states story – Limeburners, made with Albany water in WA's far south.

The moderniser. Starward matured whisky in red-wine barrels and made Australian single malt a category you could actually find on a shelf.

A one-man distillery making rye from grain grown in its own paddocks – the idiosyncratic origin of Australian rye.

The distillery that proved great Australian single malt didn't have to come from Tasmania – David Baker's Victorian pioneer.

There is no modern Australian whisky without Lark. Bill Lark helped overturn a 150-year distilling ban, founded Lark in 1992, and opened the door every other distillery walked through.

Gold at the 2026 World Whiskies Awards for the distillery at the very bottom of the country – McHenry, on the Tasman Peninsula.

One of the more interesting frontiers in Australian whisky: an Irish-style pot still, matured in Australian apera casks.

The great streak act of Australian whisky – Hellyers Road has won at the World Whiskies Awards every year for more than a decade, at scale and at age.

A Tasmanian cult single malt having a banner year – Overeem's 20th-anniversary Pedro Ximénez beat the country and cracked the world's top five.

Rutherglen has made legendary muscat for 160 years. Now it's ageing award-winning whisky in the very same barrels.

The whisky that won Best Australian Single Malt by finishing in clay, not oak – Tasmanian innovation at its boldest.

Australia's most awarded rye – a Sydney whisky that softened a hard American style, then beat the world at it.

A distillery most Australians have never heard of just won the world's best single-cask rye – ahead of America and Canada.

The only Australian whisky ever named World's Best Single Malt – and a decade on, it's still collecting global titles.