Starward Nova - Australian Single Malt Whisky

• Bottler: Starward
• Distillery: Starward
• Alcohol content: 41 % vol.
• Declared age: 3
• Content quantity: 0.7 L
• Variety: Single Malt Whisky
• Cask type: : former Australian red wine casks (Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir)
• Bottling: Non chill-filtered
• Coloring: natural color
• Origin: Australia

Melbourne – Australia's city of indulgence. A young and innovative food and bar scene invigorates the city on the continent's southeast coast. Inspired by it, the Starward Distillery produces a completely new whisky for Australia, which focuses on the enjoyment experience, turns its back on conventions – and simply allows whatever pleases and tastes good. For example, enjoying single malt and co. with a BBQ with friends, with a crime novel on the couch, with pizza or banana bread.

Freed from traditions, the distillery looks at whisky through the eyes of brewers and winemakers. It is produced exclusively from regional ingredients. In addition to barley, mainly from lightly charred or steamed red wine barrels from Australian wineries. Starward whisky only needs three years in them for its fruity maturation. Responsible for this: the Melbourne climate. Constant weather changes, the so-called "Four seasons in a day" with an average of up to 22.5°C, allow distillates to mature elementally – and create a whisky that exists nowhere else.

Starward is launching two of its genuinely Australian whiskies on the German market. Two-Fold is an uncomplicated, versatile, rounded blend. The whisky combines distillates from barley malt, fermented with a darker brewer's yeast for a fruity character, and aromatic wheat. The new makes mature separately in red wine-seasoned barriques and hogsheads. Nova is Starward's single malt. The Melbourne distillers around founder David Vitale use the darker and somewhat maltier brewer's barley of the "Pale Malt" type, typical for Starward, as a base. Matured in minimally treated ex-red wine casks, Nova balances complex notes of berry fruits, vanilla, and caramel with fine spice.