Soltera Rum's small batch insights
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Oro: Single Cask Batch 1
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Batch 1 of Oro is a single cask release that has matured for between 6 months to a year in a 115-litre ex-bourbon American oak barrel. -
Barrel aged rum: the magic of maturation
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Ageing rum has to be one of the more thrilling experiences of this distiller's journey yet. Every so often I take a wee sample from an oak barrel ... -
Barrels in time: from Babylon to Cabarita
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Batches 8, 9, 10 and 11 have been put to excellent use in filling Soltera's first barrel acquisition: two ex-bourbon American oak casks. -
Blanco wins Bronze!
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In its debut year, Blanco has earned a Bronze Medal in the 2021 Australian Distilled Spirits Awards, Australia’s first and largest national award... -
Batch 007's La Niña summer cocktails
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A wet summer forecast has inspired us to list six summer cocktails to make the sun shine from the inside out. When it comes to good booze, we're h... -
Batch 006 - What makes rum smooth?
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We've all tasted a rum and described it as “smooth” at some point, but what precisely do we mean? -
Batch 005 - How rum gets its flavour
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The full flavour profile of Blanco Batch 005 got us wondering. We tend to think of Blanco as lively and bold. But what makes it so? -
Batch 004 - Our top bars and bottle shops
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As we celebrate Batch 004 hitting shelves from Byron Bay to Brisbane, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank the bars and bottle shops...
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Batch 003 - Soul-stirring
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Bold and soul-stirring, this batch of Blanco cane spirit reminds us of Cuba. While it was fermented under hot conditions in the heat of summer - which can generate strong rum oils - Batch 3 has been thrice filtered to produce a clean crisp spirit.
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Batch 002 - Flavour you can see
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It's weird to think that booze contains oil. Alcohol is also a solvent, and often we use high-strength alcohol to clean things (hand sanitser, anyone?). But with rum, it's oils that give our spirits flavour. And batch 2 has buckets of it. -
Handmade, small batch spirits
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As a nano-distillery we only produce spirits on a small scale, and entirely by hand. -
The highs and lows of making rum
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Producing high-quality spirits on a small scale is serious business!
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