Twelve Years. One Barrel. 257 Bottles. Then Gone.
Our 12-Year-Old Single Grain — Single Barrel Nº2. Bottled by hand at cask strength — 67.39% ABV — individually numbered, in a 500 ml bottle, from our distillery in Phalaborwa. The oldest whisky we’ve ever released.
Twelve summers of Lowveld heat
On 21 July 2014 we filled a single cask of Limpopo Reserve single grain and left it to the Lowveld. It’s ready — the oldest whisky Qualito has released in twenty years of distilling. A single-grain single barrel, bottled by hand at cask strength (67.39%), every bottle numbered.
There are 257 of them, and there will not be another Barrel Nº2 — in fact it is the only 12-year-old whisky we have, and our next-oldest cask is still 2½ years from coming of age. When these are gone, there is no other Qualito 12-Year for years.
The top of a ladder we’ve climbed for twelve years
Our 10-Year already sells for around R2,400 in Europe. Barrel Nº2 is older, full cask strength (67.39%), from one cask, and hand-numbered at just 257 bottles. Single grain is a premium South African category — the same as Bain’s — and this is a single cask, at twelve years. At 500 ml and cask strength it carries about the same pure alcohol as a full 750 ml at 46.5% — the same whisky by the glass, we simply didn’t add water.
Reserve a numbered bottle
Nose, palate, finish
100% maize single grain · non-chill-filtered · natural colour · red-wine-oak / bourbon cask · 67.39% ABV (cask strength) · 500 ml.
Proof, not promises
Crafted with pride. Poured with pleasure.