A New Challenger in Australian Single Malts

If there's one thing that whisky teaches us, it's patience.
Australians Vanessa Wilton and David Whittaker have learned that
lesson over the last four years since they opened the Manly
Spirits Company distillery in the Sydney-area beach resort of
Manly. They had planned to release their first single malt whisky
late last year, but of course, the Covid-19 pandemic and
lockdowns delayed that plan. The Sydney area is back in lockdown
again, but they've decided to go ahead and release that first
whisky through a ballot that opens this week. I talked with
Vanessa and David during a trip to Australia two years ago, and
decided to wait until their first whisky was ready to share the
interview with you. In the news, Jack Daniel's is doing something
it hasn't done since Jack Daniel himself was alive...release a
whiskey with an age statement. We have the details, along with an
update on events being affected by the pandemic and the rest of
the week's whisky news.