The company says Sullivans Cove French Oak Cask HH509 scored 96.5/100, the highest score ever achieved by a Southern Hemisphere whisky. It is one of 60 out of 4,500 whiskies to have scored 96.5 and above, placing this whisky in the top 1% of whiskies ever made.
Sullivans Cove, chief distiller Patrick Maguire said: “This is the second time this week that I have been called up with great news. First it was Australasian Distiller of the Year and now Jim Murray’s Southern Hemisphere Whisky of the Year. This is the greatest moment of my distilling career. To be awarded that kind of score by Jim Murray is just unbelievable.”
Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible aims to annually score every whisky available on the market. The book currently list 4,500 whiskies, all of whicha are said to be individually tasted, evaluated and rated byMurray, with the 2013 edition adding 1,300 whiskies to the list.
According to Murray, Sullivans Cove French Oak Cask HH509 “…re-wrote the Australian whisky books…it is not just the best whisky I tasted from Taz (sic), but it walked off with Southern Hemisphere Whisky of the Year. Not only that, it made its way to the Whisky Bible World Whisky of the Year taste off conducted among the six best whiskies I had tasted this year, hob-nobbing with the likes of Buffalo Trace, Ardbeg and Ballantine’s 17.”
