Starward 2012 (TWE 20th Anniversary)

Starward is Australian Maltwhisky produced in Melbourne since 2007. Like their own Starward Solera expression, this single cask release for the 20th Anniversary of The Whisky Exchange was bottled from an Apera cask .

In 2010 the Australian fortified wine which had historically been called sherry underwent a name change to apera . After all Sherry (or the Spanish version Jerez) is a protected designation of origin, which after decades Australia decided to respect in an agreement with the EU. It comes in similar styles, from dry to very sweet, but contrary to sherry it is often seen as...