According to whisky connoisseurs, Tasmania grows some of the world’s best brewing barley. Its highlands abound in rich peat, its water is soft, clean, and pure, and the temperature and humidity create a climate well suited-to the maturation of fine malt whiskies. Take a guided ‘whisky walk’ through Hellyers Road Distillery at Burnie in north-west Tasmania, where you’ll get to pour and wax-seal your own bottle. At Bothwell, one hour’s drive from Hobart, is the farm-based Nant Distillery, named after the eponymous valley on the periphery of Tasmania’s Central Plateau region. The distillery utilises the pristine waters of the Central … Continue reading Tasmania’s Whisky Trail