STARWARD VITALIS: 15TH BIRTHDAY RELEASE

This special release is to celebrate Starward Whisky's 15th Anniversary, a milestone for a distillery in Australia. It’s no easy task to get to 15 years... to sell a whisky, you need to have made it years ago. As they wrote on their first ever whisky label; it’s the essence of a determination to explore, discover and enlighten. To try and do something different, well that is a gamble. For David Vitale, it worked. Not only did David’s gamble work, it brought to life the modern, approachable, food friendly whisky he had been searching for. Vitalis is a celebration of the Starward Life - with a name derived from David Vitale’s familial name- meaning life in Latin. It is a nod to the original bold endeavour, a ‘cheers’ to new horizons and an emblem of their trajectory – to the stars.

METHOD

Vitalis is truly unlike any other Starward single malt whisky. The team hand-selected parcels from six different types of barrels to create this one-of-a-kind whisky. Parcels from Tawny barrels, Rum barrels, Bourbon barrels and Apera barrels were all specifically chosen and carefully blended together to create a complex yet perfectly balanced, fruit forward spirit. The eldest of these barrels were filled in 2011 and the youngest in 2018, showcasing the depth of cask selection and maturation from Essendon Fields and Port Melbourne.

TASTE & AROMA

On the nose this whisky leads with notes of chewy toffee, raisins, chocolate coated pineapples and cedar.