Virtual Tasting · Wednesday 21 October
Bruichladdich, poured at your table
Yellow Submarine III launches in Australia with five pours from the shore of Loch Indaal, and you taste every one of them live.
- When 8:00pm AEDT, Wednesday 21 October
- Where Watch live on Facebook and YouTube
- Pack Five 15mL pours plus your add-on, posted to you
- Price $79, or $69 for members
Virtual Tasting · Wednesday 21 October
Bruichladdich, poured at your table
Yellow Submarine III launches in Australia with five pours from the shore of Loch Indaal, and you taste every one of them live.
- When 8:00pm AEDT, Wed 21 October
- Where Watch live on Facebook and YouTube
- Pack Five 15mL pours plus your add-on
- Price $79, or $69 for members
Whisky Wayfarers Virtual Tasting Pack + Add-on - Bruichladdich - 21 October
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With the night this close, we can no longer guarantee your pack arrives before Wednesday 21 October. Every pack still ships, and if yours lands after the live tasting, the replay lets you pour through all five in your own time.
Five Bruichladdich pours, one night, from the unpeated Laddie to eighteen years of Port Charlotte smoke.
The night
Bruichladdich's official Australian launch of Yellow Submarine III, poured at your table. At 8:00pm AEDT on Wednesday 21 October we pour along with you live, hosted by Ray Daniel with a Bruichladdich guest. Unpeated, single cask, wine cask and heavy peat, all from the one distillery on the shore of Loch Indaal.
On pour
- Bruichladdich 10 Year OldUnpeated. The house style, with ten years on Islay.
- Yellow Submarine III14 Years Old, bourbon and French red wine casks, 54.2%. Its official Australian launch.
- Micro-Provenance #006210 Years Old, one first-fill Rivesaltes cask, 62.9%. Our single cask.
- Greener Still15 Years Old, first-fill bourbon, 51.6%. A first look before its Australian release in November.
- Port Charlotte 18Heavily peated, 40 PPM, sherry and wine casks, 51.5%.
Your add-on
Every pack ships with one piece from the launch, chosen at checkout: a Yellow Submarine or Greener Still glass, pin, coaster, napkin, socks or the patch. It is included in the price. Pick the one you want from the menu above before you add to cart.
How it works
Reserve your pack and we ship it free. The stream links go out by email the week of the tasting, and you can pour along live or keep the samples and watch the replay in your own time.
Members
Whisky Wayfarers and Oak & Origin members pay $69. The discount applies itself at checkout, so log into your account before you order. Packs are limited and go in order of booking.
The night
One distillery, five ways to taste it
Bruichladdich sits on the shore of Loch Indaal, the Islay distillery that was shut, saved and brought back to life twenty-five years ago. Every pour in the pack comes from there, and between them they cover almost everything it does.
You start on the house style, move through barley and red wine cask, try a single cask we chose ourselves, and finish on the peat of Port Charlotte. Ray hosts with a guest from Bruichladdich, and Yellow Submarine III gets its Australian launch on the night.
- Date
- 21 OctoberWednesday night
- Time
- 8:00pm AEDT7:30pm ACDT · 5:00pm AWST
- Stream
- Watch liveFacebook and YouTube
- Pack
- $79$69 for members
Members pay $69
Whisky Wayfarers and Oak & Origin members get $10 off the pack. The discount applies itself at checkout, so log into your account before you order or you will be charged the full $79.
Wednesday 21 October · 8:00pm AEDT
Ready to pour?
The tasting goes out live on Facebook and YouTube at the same time, so pick whichever you prefer. No login, no software, no link to dig out of your inbox. Open any of the three below at eight and we will be there.
Comments are read out and answered as we go, so bring your questions.
Oak & Origin
Follow the page so the stream finds you
Whisky Wayfarers
Same stream, on the members page
YouTube
Whisky Wayfarers
Subscribe and hit the bell for the reminder
NSW, Vic, Tas, ACT
South Australia
Queensland
Northern Territory
Western Australia
Before eight
Set up in five minutes
One
Line them up
Stand the five samples in the running order below. Keep them at room temperature, not in the fridge.
Two
Any good glass
A tumbler or a small wine glass is fine. One glass will do if you rinse between pours.
Three
Water on the side
A jug of still water and a teaspoon. You will want a few drops for pour four, which is over 60%.
Four
Leave the caps
Open each one as we get to it. Fifteen millilitres goes quickly, so do not rush the first.
The line-up
Five pours, in this order
From the house style through barley, wine cask and a single cask of our own, finishing on peat. Smoke goes last because nothing tastes the same after it.
50%
51.6%
54.2%
62.9%
52.3%
Pour one · The house style
The Classic Laddie 10 Year Old
The flagship in its aqua bottle, now with ten years on it. Unpeated, all Scottish barley, matured in American oak. This is the baseline everything else tonight is measured against.
- Orange blossom, vanilla and honey with a breath of sea air
- Orchard fruit and nectarine over spiced fudge
- Clean, malty and gently oaked
- Age 10 years
- Cask American oak
- Strength 50%, unpeated
Pour two · The barley
Greener Still
The fourth in the Still Series, and the first where the story is the field rather than the cask. Organic, biodynamic and Bere barley, fifteen years in first-fill bourbon barrels on Islay, nothing finished on top of it.
- Lavender, honeysuckle and toasted oak
- Ripe pear, apple crumble and cinnamon sugar
- Malty and herbal, with heather and a little rosemary
- Age 15 years
- Cask First-fill bourbon
- Strength 51.6%, unpeated
Pour three · The reason we are all here
Yellow Submarine III [Reclassified]
In 2005 two Islay fishermen pulled a Royal Navy submersible out of the water off the distillery, and Bruichladdich have been bottling the joke ever since. The third Yellow Submarine marks twenty-five years since the distillery was brought back to life, and tonight is its Australian launch.
Fourteen years old, mostly in French red wine casks with the rest in first-fill bourbon, at full strength.
- Crème brûlée, toasted hazelnut and nutmeg
- Orange zest, orchard fruit and honey
- A long finish with a pinch of sea salt
- Series Whisky of Mass Distinction IV
- Age 14 years
- Cask French red wine and first-fill bourbon
- Strength 54.2%, unpeated
Pour four · Our single cask
Micro-Provenance #0062
One cask, chosen by us. Ten years in a single first-fill Rivesaltes cask, the sweet fortified wine from the south of France, and bottled straight from it. The strongest pour of the night, so taste it neat first and then add a few drops of water.
- Age 10 years
- Cask First-fill Rivesaltes, single cask
- Strength 62.9%, cask strength
Pour five · The peat
Port Charlotte 18 Year Old
The same distillery, heavily peated, and the oldest Port Charlotte there is. Eighteen years takes the edge off the smoke without losing it, across bourbon, sherry, wine and virgin oak casks.
- Vanilla and cream wrapped in soft smoke
- Pepper and ripe orchard fruit, full and rich
- Long, fruity and smoky to the end
- Edition 2026 release
- Peat 40 PPM
- Strength 52.3%
Your hosts
Pouring with you on the night
Ray Daniel
Co-founder of Oak & Origin and Whisky Wayfarers, and the one who chose the cask for pour four. If it is rare and it landed in Australia, Ray has usually already chased it.
A guest from Bruichladdich
Joining us from the distillery's team to take you through the releases, the barley and the stories behind them.
Details
Good to know
Do I need a pack to watch?
No. Anyone can watch on Facebook or YouTube. The pack is what lets you taste along rather than take our word for it.
What if I cannot make it on the night?
The stream stays up on all three pages afterwards, so pour whenever suits and watch it back. You will miss having your questions answered live, which is the best part of it.
Can I buy the full bottles?
Four of the five, yes. Use the "view the bottle" links in the line-up above. If you are a member, log in first so any member pricing applies.
What is the add-on?
Every pack ships with one piece from the launch, chosen when you order: a Yellow Submarine or Greener Still glass, a coaster, a napkin, socks, a pin, the patch or the calico gift bag. It is included in the price and comes in the same box as your samples.
My pack has not arrived, or something is missing
Email socials@oakandorigin.com.au with your order number and we will sort it. If it has not turned up two days before the tasting, let us know and we will chase it.
Is there an age requirement?
You must be 18 or over to order a pack, and someone 18 or over must sign for the delivery.
Need a hand?
Questions about the night, your pack or your delivery. Reach us on socials or send an email.
Members get first call on allocated releases before anyone else hears about them, and $10 off every virtual tasting pack.
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