Starward Two Fold Australian Whisky Review

Good day, mate! I imagine you Australians are saying, never do that again

Hey guys, my name is Clifton, and today I'm going to review a new type of whiskey that I've never

bought before. This is Australian whiskey. Okay, I'll stop it with the accent. But yeah, this is

Star Wars Twofold Double Grain Australian Whiskey. So the reason this is called Twofold is because

it's double grain, which actually means they use wheat and malted barley. Those are the only two

grains in here. There's no corn. There's no rye. It's totally unique, something that I've never

actually seen done in the States. I'm sure it has been, but just nothing well known. And then it's

finished in Australian red wine barrels from Melbourne, which is like the wine capital, I think

of Australia. So I think it's pretty cool. It's a really Australian sounding spirit. It sounds like

they put a lot of local things into it from the wine finish to these being like the main grains

that you can find in Australia So I wanted to give it a review and try it out for you guys So Starward is actually a relatively new distillery in Australia It based in Melbourne and it was started in 2007 by a guy named David Vittel

I think that's how it's pronounced. I could be wrong. But he's a Melbourne native and he wanted to create something that was uniquely Australian

And this brand has actually grown to be one of the largest ones in Australia from what I can tell

But you guys, on the nose, this is straight up wine. Like, I recently reviewed Legion Bourbon, which is actually a Jim Beam release that's finished in Californian wine, red wine cask

So I get a really similar nose on this. And you know what? It almost smells like it's very light

Like the whiskey, once you get behind the red wine, it's a really light, fruity, super fruity nose

It's almost like a sangria in a whiskey glass. I get a lot of, like, strawberry, like summer fruits

Like, this is a great one to have in the summer. So let's go ahead and taste it and see if that amazing fruity nose carries through with the taste

Interesting So oh wow There it is Okay so on first taste it reminds me a lot of like a lighter scotch like maybe even like a blended scotch something like Monkey Shoulder or even

like Johnny Walker. It has the kind of that like quintessential like whiskey note that I get on

scotch, but once that kind of dissipates like a second after it hits your tongue, you're left with

these really bright, like I said, fruity notes. I get a lot of strawberry, almost like a fresh

like you bite into like a crisp apple. I get a lot of that. This is really nice. I've never had

something so fruity. Even the Legion. I think the reason that Legion isn't as, you know, fruit forward

is because it's a bourbon. It's aged in new American charred oak. It's, you know, definitely

subdued by the whiskey that's inside of it. Whereas this is a lot lighter. And again, since it being

wheat based, that makes sense. It's going to be a lot smoother, I guess I would say. It doesn't

really have any sharp points like rye would or even it doesn't have the sweetness that you

associate with a corn like a like a corn sweet dustiness I get a lot on like corn whiskeys um yeah this is just overall really great stuff and I haven tried anything in America that remotely like this So I love that I trying

something that's really Australian you know just from grain to glass as they say. This is a really

unique spirit and if you can get it for 30 bucks like in America like I can definitely pick it up

I would pay you know 40 to 50 dollars for this just because it's so unique. Let me know if you've

tried this either on its own or in a cocktail. So I'm going to give this a recommend, especially if

you've never had like an Australian spirit. This is a great one to get started with, I imagine

And I'm excited to see what else this distillery and other Australian distilleries have. So thank

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