Island Coast Whisky ex-Oloroso SMWC Edition

An ex-Oloroso French Oak cask, 5 year old, Tasmanian Single Malt for the fantastic price of $125! Matured at sea level in Australia’s southern-most municipality, the Huon Valley, Tasmania and filtered with pristine Tasmanian rain water to bottle this Single Malt Whisky Club EXCLUSIVE summer Sherry bomb at a perfect 44%abv.

This is Tasmanian Single Malt at its very finest – The Island Coast Whisky ex-Oloroso SMWC Edition

This month, it gives us great pleasure to be featuring a whisky by one of very own members, Kirk Pinner and his ‘Island Coast Whisky’. Island Coast Spirit’s story is one of hard work, hands-on quality control and cask selection, fantastic business sense and tirelessly working to get his 100% Tassie products stocked all over Australia.

If you’re fearful (on reading that this is a peated whisky) that you’ll be stuck with a mouthful of burnt rubber, iodine and bandaids you can rest easy. This is lightly peated Tassie spirit – the already-malted and dried barley is then infused with peat smoke. This is gives a much lighter ‘peat profile’ than a huge Scottish Islay whisky where the peat smoke is used to heat and dry the malted barley (thus arresting the germinating process). Think distant beach campfire rather than burning hospitals! The notes from the peat are a part of a bigger picture – not the star of the show.

Kirk has been recognised in Tasmania and nationally with awards such as ‘Tasmanian Entrepreneur of the Year’ and ‘National Small Business Owner of the Year’. But even MORE importantly – his Island Coast Spirits range (vodka, gin, whisky and rum) are winning state, national AND international awards with almost alarming frequency now!

Up until recently, Kirk’s Island Coast brand was unashamedly made from a mix of rented-still distillation, plus acquisition and maturation of casks from other distilleries in Tasmania and also some contract distillation. But in 3rd qtr 2025, Kirk has officially ‘dived in’ and has acquired his own still and distilling premises. We can’t wait to see the fruition of the Island Coast label releasing it’s own whisky, from its own still, distilled in its own distillery!