The Old Kempton Whisky Club was created for true whisky fans - weather you collect it, drink it or share it with friends. Our Whisky Club releases are 4 times a year and created exclusively by our distillers for club members only.

This February’s release received the highest scores ever on our internal tasting panel, and it nearly didn't exist. It started with a phone call from one of our cooperages, Transwood, who told us about this beautiful Tawny cask previously used to mature coffee beans. Initially we weren't keen on the cask, thinking that the acidity of the coffee would be hard to balance and wary of producing a 'gimmick' whisky, however, a few weeks later Rob was visiting the cooperage and took the opportunity to smell the cask and purchased it on the spot.

The cask had the rich aroma of an excellent quality tawny and the slightest hint of freshly brewed coffee and dark chocolate. Intrigued to find out the story of the cask, we called Dutschke Wines in the Barossa Valley, where the cask originated from, and the producer of some of our favourite fortified wines (and fortified wine casks). We learned they had collaborated with coffee roasters in both Australia and America to age green coffee beans in Tawny casks prior to roasting. This project then inspired Wayne Dutschke and his team to experiment with infusing roasted coffee into Tawny during maturation. They produced one cask for this experiment, which was available to sample exclusively at their cellar door, and it is this cask that found its way down to us in Kempton.