Charity Lot - Heartwood Not Far From The Tree #2 Apple Brandy

No Reserve Charity Lot - Heartwood Not Far From The Tree #2 Apple Brandy

A special apple brandy produced by the enigmatic Heartwood team. This release used apple brandy spirit from Charles Oats (Willie Smiths) and was matured in a 50 year old vintage Port cask. Bottled at 57.9% abv in August 2022.

This lot has kindly been donated by the Heartwood team for May's featured charity auction, which supports Cystic Fibrosis Tasmania.

The charity lots were organized by John Halton from Transportation Whiskey, with the full hammer price and a 10% buyer's premium being donated to Cystic Fibrosis Tasmania. You can donate directly through the fundraising page at https://www.givar.com/campaigns/shreddingforcft/ or directly to CF Tasmania 

Cystic Fibrosis Tasmania is a not-for-profit organization that receives no government funding and provides essential services for those impacted by CF. Some of these services include the provision of physiotherapy equipment used every day by individuals with CF to help keep their lungs healthy, financial subsidies for exercise equipment, psychology, counseling, and more.

What is Cystic Fibrosis?
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic condition, with 1 in 25 Australians carrying the CF gene. It is a life-limiting condition that impacts many parts of the body, including the lungs, pancreas, sinuses, liver, bones, and more. Individuals with CF may have to take 80+ tablets a day, do 2-5 hours of daily physiotherapy, attend multiple hospital appointments, and stay in the hospital for treatment frequently.

Why are we doing this?
John's wife's cousin, Charlotte, is 13 and lives with Cystic Fibrosis. She has been very lucky to start a new medication recently called Trikafta, which provides significant hope (and more evidence being shared as we speak) of a longer life than the short 37 years predicted when she was born. But Trikafta isn't a cure, and at this stage, Charlotte still requires lots of things to maintain a healthy baseline and keep her out of the hospital. She does lung physiotherapy twice a day, takes over 20 tablets per day, including almost every time she eats - even just for a piece of chocolate!

Challenge history
Charlotte has been participating in 65 Roses/65 for CF Challenges for years. Her challenges have included meeting 65 dogs, sliding down 65 different slides, completing a lap of 65 different ovals, and making 65 different scrunchies during lockdown, plus more. In 2021, Charlotte created a team challenge with some of her friends at She Shreds Australia who challenged themselves to complete 650 ollies each throughout the month. Last year, a group of 7 She Shredders participated in a skate-a-thon where they skateboarded for 650 minutes (that's almost 11 hours!) on a Sunday with just 6 x 5-minute breaks. It was a very impressive (exhausting!) effort and raised over $12,700 for CF Tas. Check out this year's 65 Roses challenge on their Facebook page, Shredding for CFT.

 

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  • Distillery / Brand:
    Heartwood
  • Region:
    Australia
  • Age:
    NAS
  • Whisky Type:
    Other
  • Bottles Produced:
  • Bottle Number:
    33 of 170
  • Size:
    500ml
  • Strength:
    57.90%
Distillery

Heartwood

Whilst Heartwood’s first release came out in 2011, we really have to look all the way back to 1992 to get an understanding of this truly unique Tasmanian brand. It was during this year that Tim Duckett, the owner and founder of Heartwood, was introduced to Bill and Lyn Lark of Lark distillery. In 1992 Tim met the pair through his work as an environmental consultant and as an avid collector of single cask Scotch whisky, was in love with the idea of whisky made in Tasmania. Over the following years as Bill and Lyn began creating their own malts, gins and liqueurs, Tim would keep a close eye on them and even purchased the first publicly available Lark barrel in 1999. This barrel is ultimately what kick started the Heartwood brand. Over the next 13 years he would purchase many casks from distilleries across the state, including barrels from Tasmania Distillery, now known as Sullivans Cove. It was in 2012 that Tim realised he had a number of barrels reaching the end of their life and if he left the whisky any longer it would likely be irredeemable. With the release of “Mt Wellington” in 2012, Heartwood was officially an independent bottler. 
 
Throughout the following decade Tim, also known as ‘Mr H”, would bottle some of Australia’s oldest whisky. It isn’t uncommon for a Heartwood release to contain anywhere from 10-18 year old whisky, a truly unique selling point when many distilleries are putting out 3-5 year old products. In 2015 he launched the Tasmanian Independent Bottlers (TiB), a label that aimed to cater to a wider range of pallets. A typical Heartwood is bottled at cask strength and is often very intense on its flavours, making it somewhat unapproachable for people who are newer to whisky. The TiB label seeks to fill that gap by sourcing casks from all across Australia and even New Zealand before adding water to find a sweet spot of quality and palatability. Mr H notes that he had no real intention of being a whisky bottler when he was purchasing barrels from distilleries in the early 2000’s, but the evolution of Aussie whisky and the quality of casks he had in his possession became something he wished to share with the world.  

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