Backwoods Distilling Co is located in the Victorian high country in Yackandandah. They are a small craft distillery run by Leigh and Bree Attwood, a family run business that was founded in 2017. They have quickly gained attention in Australia due to the unique and delicious whisky they are producing. They source everything in their whisky making process locally and try to keep everything involved Australian, from the Voyager malt grains to the hand selected barrels from the Australian whisky and wine industries.

They aren’t afraid to experiment with some unique finishes and approaches, exemplified by their Red Gum cask whisky, something truly unique.

I have personally had some fantastic interactions with Bree and she has shown to be a class act as a business owner and as a person. I will continue to keep a close eye on their new releases as the handful of bottles i have from them already are quickly becoming some of my favourites both in the Rye and single malt categories.

Following the Backwoods Distilling Co. inaugural rye whisky comes their 2nd batch rye, handcrafted in the Victorian High Country. Backwoods Rye is crafted from a Heritage Ryecorn grain, once growing wild and now grown and malted exclusively by Voyager Craft Malt in the Riverina region. The mash bill contains 60% malted rye, then 27% barley, 10% wheat and 3% chocolate malt. The whisky is a vatting of two 100L American oak casks that previously held Australian Cabernet and Shiraz.

This whisky was bottled on the 9th of October 2020.

Victoria, Australia