V.S.O.P (700 ml)

St Agnes Distillery, established in 1925 at Renmark in South Australia's Riverland, is one of Australia's oldest continually operating brandy distilleries — a rare survivor of a category that once dominated the country's spirits landscape. The distillery draws on warm, low-humidity Riverland conditions that concentrate sugar in the base wine grapes, producing a distillate with natural richness before a single day in wood.

The VSOP expression is aged for a minimum of five years in small oak casks, a longer commitment than the legal VSOP floor demands, building layered dried-fruit and spice character that distinguishes it from younger VS releases. Pot still distillation is used alongside column distillation, preserving congener complexity that purely continuous-distilled brandies lose. The spirit is bottled at 40% ABV without chill filtration, retaining natural esters and fatty acids.

What sets this apart within Australian brandy is its unbroken single-site heritage: the same Renmark distillery, same production philosophy, across nearly a century — making it a genuine document of a regional style that has no direct international equivalent.