Starward and Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth’s top decks will become home to some very special cargo, a 225-litre barrel of Australian whisky, to be known as The Seafarer.
Loaded in Sydney on 28 February 2018, the whisky will spend 12 months travelling the world on Queen Elizabeth’s open decks before it is opened next February at the start of the ship’s 2019 Australian season.
Aged for two years previously at Starward’s Port Melbourne distillery, its maturation will be aided by the motion of the ocean, the salt of the sea air and changing climates along the journey. The barrel will be opened and the whisky made available on board Queen Elizabeth and at Starward’s distillery bar once the ship begins her history-making season of cruises from Australia in February 2019. As part of their partnership, Starward and Cunard will donate bottles of The Seafarer to raise funds for charity.
“We are so proud of our ambitious local whisky’s achievements on the international awards scene,” Starward founder David Vitale said. “Winning these awards has been a result of our dedication to using quality Australian ingredients, particularly Australian wine barrels. Now this barrel of whisky will travel the world and bring to market a distinctively Australian whisky with a little taste of our global ambition.”
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