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Highwayman PX No1

A spark in the quiet dark

The Origin Unveiled

There are bottles that arrive with noise - and then there are those whose ripples change the course of things. Highwayman PX No.1 belongs to the latter; the first cask born of Byron Bay’s renegade distillery, it was not shaped for the crowd, but for those who know what it means to begin something quietly, and irrevocably.

Byron Bay: a place where land and ocean meet as equals, unwilling to yield. In 2016, a single Pedro Ximénez sherry cask was filled, not to mimic tradition, but to let the landscape leave its mark. There were no panels, no permissions sought - just an unhurried conviction, and the understanding that authenticity lives outside approval.

What rests in this glass is restless - dark fruit and tobacco, salted by the wind and given depth by the sun. With each pour, you encounter not bravado, but intent. It’s a whisky that honors its pedigree in rebellion, wearing both sherry wood and the Hunter’s legacy with quiet certainty.

This was never about staking claim to a trend. It was about stepping into the unknown, unaccompanied, and shaping an identity that refused the safety of precedent. Highwayman PX No.1 did not chase the world’s attention. Instead, it became the bottle other bottles look to in the hope of understanding how movement begins.

To hold this bottle is to recognize a before and after in Australia’s whisky chapter. Its story is not measured in acclaim or numbers, but in the way it anchored a movement - one barrel, one leap, quietly kindling a new tradition.

The full tale of its inception and the notes it left on those early palates reside in the vault, reserved for those who appreciate the quiet beginnings that define an era.