OCTOBER 2024: MORRIS MUSCAT BARREL

Brand

Location

Expression

ABV

Age

Casks Used

Morris

Rutherglen, Australia

Muscat Barrel

46%

3-5 years

Red Wine and Morris Muscat Fortified Wine

The Whisky:-

Spain has Sherry, Portugal Port, but Rutherglen Australia is heralded as the world’s finest producing regions of Muscat fortified wine. Known for its intense and rich flavours of golden molasses, dried fruits and baked spices, Muscat is a fortified style wine that is often aged for over twenty years or more before reaching maturity.

Morris is one of the only distilleries in the world that uses its own casks from its winery for aging and finishing and is known as the world’s best when it comes to Muscat. It’s these barrels that have held award-winning Morris Muscat fortified wine that create the exceptional Morris whisky flavour.

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The Distillery:- 

Over six generations of craftsmanship in winemaking, blending and ageing passed down through bloodlines has allowed Morris of Rutherglen to truly master the creation of extraordinary flavour in our Australian Single Malt Whisky.

 

At Morris we have been making world renowned fortified wines since 1859, a tradition that still carries on today led by head wine maker Madden Morris. For many years a hybrid copper-pot and column spirits still originally used to make fortified wines laid dormant at the heart of our Rutherglen winery. In 2016, we decided to bring her back to life and started to experiment and research with spirit making, using local grain, water and aging the whisky in barrels sourced from the family winery.

 

After a few years in a barrel we began to experiment with finishing our whisky in the some of the amazing Morris of Rutherglen fortified casks that we are fortunate enough to have access to. We soon learnt that it was these barrels that would gift us with remarkable flavours to create a uniquely Australian Whisky experience.

 

What makes our Muscat Barrel Magic?

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Barley

We create a unique MORRIS Whisky style that speaks to our home in Rutherglen. Made with nothing but 100% Australian premium malted barley which is then brewed and fermented in our family owned brewery for total quality control.

 

Distillation

We use the original still, which was made in the 1930s in Adelaide and installed at the Morris of Rutherglen site in 1941. It has been meticulously restored and in recognition of its awakening after decades of slumber, the still has been named “Aurora”, a nod to the princess in Sleeping Beauty. We also have a second identical still called "Ella" as she too will come to the ball. Pure filtered water is then used throughout the production process.

 

Barrels + Maturation

The barrels used for maturation are a combination of French and American oak, ex-red wine barrels sourced from our family-owned wineries in the Barossa and Coonawarra regions of South Australia. They are prepared by hand at our private cooperage to a specific method, which imparts the unique Morris of Rutherglen flavour profile.

 

Finishing

Our single malt whiskies are skilfully finished in hand selected barrels; some of which have held the world’s most highly awarded fortified wines from Morris of Rutherglen. It is the art in our finishing technique that creates the unique and distinctive MORRIS Whisky taste, and allows us to experiment with depth of flavour imparted from our award winning fortified wines.

 

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