5 years

Iridium

Australian Rum · Aged 5 Years · 700 mL · 40% ABV

Five tropical years. Dried fruit and toffee over the cane, with the pot still still audible underneath.

Pot Still Style Winner, World Rum Awards 2021 · Style Winner 2019 · Silver 2023

RRP $85 · 700 mL View availability at Mt Uncle

Sold by Mt Uncle Distillery, at the cellar door and through stockists. Price and stock are held by Mt Uncle, not here. Shipping within Australia only, and an adult signature is required on delivery. Find a stockist or read shipping and returns.

Why it exists

Iridium is the first release where oak gets a vote. Five tropical years is the point at which the barrel room has changed the spirit without burying the cane under it.

Tasting

Nose: Dried apricot, toffee, warm oak, cane sitting behind it all.
Palate: Soft dark fruit and caramel, then the pot still, weight and a little funk rather than sweetness.
Finish: Medium, drying. Oak spice with the cane returning at the end.
Serve: Neat, or over one large ice cube. Stands up in an old fashioned without disappearing.

Specification

Raw material: NQ sugarcane syrup
Still: Helga · 1500 L Arnold Holstein copper pot
Distillation: Copper pot still
Age statement: 5 years
Alc/Vol: 40%
Cask: Ex-red wine, Barossa shiraz, reconditioned American oak
Volume: 700 mL
Additives: None
Distilled in: Australia · Walkamin, QLD

Provenance

The number on your neck label resolves to a barrel record: what was filled, which cask, when it was drawn, and how it tasted each time we drew from it.

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Chalking the head of a maturing cask in the barrel room at Walkamin — Barrel room · Walkamin

Five years in the barrel room

The climate does the work

Filled at cask strength into reconditioned American oak that held Barossa shiraz, then left in the barrel room on the Tablelands. Humidity above 70% for most of the year moves spirit through wood faster than a cellar ever could.

Explore the process →

Place

Where it comes from

Walkamin sits on the Atherton Tablelands, an hour inland from Cairns, between cane country and World Heritage rainforest. Both of these were photographed within that landscape.