Australian distillery Top Shelf International has unveiled Act of Treason, an agave spirit brand made from one of its most progressive distilleries.
Located between Airlie Beach and Bowen in Queensland’s Whitsundays region, the farm and distillery is home to more than 600,000 Blue Weber (Agave tequilana).
The company’s farm-to-bottle operations include plants grown, cooked, distilled, and bottled at the Eden Lassie spirit farm, all powered by renewable energy. Its sustainability initiatives also include carbon sequestration, cover cropping, sediment run-off prevention, and water management
However, despite being made from the same plant that has been used in making tequila for centuries, the distillery emphasised that the new spirit is “not a tequila”.
Trent Frase, CEO of Top Shelf International, said the company felt there was an opportunity to put a distinctive imprint on agave.
“Act of Treason symbolises the pioneering spirit of a project that will create a new region of agave spirit, and the dry tropics of North Queensland are the ideal place for that to occur,” explained Frase.
Act of Treason boasts a familiar backbone of cooked agave layered with notes of lime, fresh-cut grass, and tropical fruits, with a complementary minerality offering an “elegant and soft” spirit profile.
“If some feel we’re being treasonous, then so be it,” Frase concluded. “The greater crime would be not doing it all.”
Act of Treason is available online at actoftreason.com.au.
