Thomson ‘Ninety Four’
$145.00
In stock
This month’s Members Extra is a clean cut, bourbon cask beauty from New Zealand – exclusive to SMWC, limited in number, and dangerously easy to fall in love with.
⭐ Why this whisky matters
- Exclusive to SMWC – you won’t find this anywhere else in Australia.
- Limited edition – once it’s gone, it’s gone.
- Classic un peated, bourbon cask matured single malt – pure, honest whisky done right.
- From Thomson Distillery – one of NZ’s most respected craft whisky makers.
This month’s Members Extra is a clean cut, bourbon cask beauty from New Zealand – exclusive to SMWC, limited in number, and dangerously easy to fall in love with. If you skip it, you’ll spend the rest of the month wishing you hadn’t.
⭐ Why this whisky matters
- Exclusive to SMWC – you won’t find this anywhere else in Australia.
- Limited edition – once it’s gone, it’s gone.
- Classic un peated, bourbon cask matured single malt – pure, honest whisky done right.
- From Thomson Distillery – one of NZ’s most respected craft whisky makers.
This is the kind of Members Extra that makes your mates jealous. It’s clean, confident, and crafted for people who appreciate whisky that doesn’t need bells and whistles to shine.
Meet Thomson ‘Ninety Four’ – a whisky that proves simplicity can be spectacular. No peat. No tricks. Just New Zealand barley, bourbon casks, and the kind of craftsmanship that makes you stop mid sip and smile.
In keeping with their ethos of using what is around them, the raw ingredient in all Thomson Whiskies is 100% New Zealand grown malted barley, from the Canterbury region of the South Island. The malted barley [in this case] has been kiln dried without smoke, capturing all the rich flavours of the terroir of Canterbury and the months of sunshine typical of the environment.
The new make spirit for this expression was filled in a 200L American oak single ex-bourbon (Jim Beam) cask for 5 years (put down on September 2019) before being disgorged and cut to 46.5% for bottling. Mat Thomson (Head Distiller and Owner) came across the cask when he was doing his monthly barrel survey and flagged it right away. He phoned me and said “this one’s ready. It’s delicious. It’s an early cask of ours so it’s special to share this with you all”. What else could we do but say “Giddy Up Mat”!
It opens bright and welcoming, rolls across the palate with warm vanilla and soft oak, and finishes with that classic bourbon‑cask sweetness that keeps you reaching for another pour. It’s the whisky equivalent of a perfectly tailored white shirt: timeless, flattering, and impossible not to love.
And because it’s exclusive to SMWC, this is your chance to own a bottle that most whisky drinkers will never even see.
If you’re the kind of member who loves clean, confident, beautifully balanced whisky – this is your month.
🥃 What’s in the bottle
- Name: Thomson ‘Ninety Four’
- Origin: New Zealand
- ABV: 46.5%
- Style: Un‑peated, bourbon‑cask matured
- Limited Edition: only available through SMWC
This is whisky stripped back to its essentials – and better for it.
It’s approachable enough for casual drinkers, refined enough for whisky nerds, and exclusive enough to feel like a secret handshake.
OUR TASTING NOTES
Nose: Classic ex-bourbon matured nose – lovely fruit notes, sweet fairy-floss, vanilla in spades, jasmine-y floral notes to boot!
Palate: Lovely viscous mouthfeel with just a little pepper, then waves of stewed granny smith apple and blind-baked short crust pastry ready to fill with sweet candied peel skirting around the edges
Finish: A medium finish with a see-saw of pepper-then-fruit and back again and a re-emergence of floral notes as it fades.
This is a lovely, decadent, sweet whisky that is eminently explorable over a dram or three. A sublime, well integrated spirit with more than enough layers of flavour to keep any whisky lover coming back to explore further.
