Skip to content

Waiheke Whisky

Featured Products
Dyad  - Chardonnay

Dyad - Chardonnay

$219.00 NZD
700mL 41% ABV
Dyad  - Chardonnay

Dyad - Chardonnay

$219.00 NZD
700mL 41% ABV

Visit Us

You can visit our distillery at THE HEKE. We offer cultural and educational tours and testing here on our 8 acre property at 64 Onetabgli Road

Book Now

Cart

Your cart is empty

Signup for our newsletter

Describe what your customers will receive when subscribing to your newsletter.

limited bottles remaining

FAIRLIGHT `- OUR FIRST BLEND - FROM A GRAND MASTER

NEW RELEASE

trophy winner

awarded Best NZ single malt: Drammys 2024

award winning single malt

pioneering still design

where sky meets sea we make

New Zealand whisky

bog monster release

"...the smoke is ember-like, aromatic and earthy. It’s a Seamus Heaney poem in liquid form. Dig in. All have clarity and sweetness, not muddied confusion. These are extraordinarily assured whiskies and another interpretation of place from this hugely exciting whisky-producing country".

Dave Broom

"Their new-make is remarkable...it's one of the few whiskies where you can really taste the new-make DNA in the whisky...Springbank is the prefect comparison."

Joshua Hatton - One Nation Under Whisky

"Good maturation on show – having tasted the distillery’s new make you can clearly identify the spirit character as it mingles with the oak...I’m genuinely impressed. A fine debut."

Neil Murphy – WhiskyReviews.Net

"This is one of the most interesting and complex 5 year old whiskies I’ve ever tasted. Sweet and syrupy on the nose with just a hint of brine. 90/100 points."

The Single Malt Review

V.i.t.r.i.o.l

our unique stills

We've gone back to scratch for still design and manufacture with a unique approach.

Learn about our still design & how it influences the spirit

double gold 2023 / 2024

cantankerous

Following our medals at the NZ Spirits Awards we took home best in category for Whisky.

The trophy in the Whisky Category was awarded to Cantankerous.

Our Tenth award this year, so far picking up 4 golds, 4 silvers 1 bronze and best in category in both the NZ spirits awards and the Drammys

4 GOLDS, best in show FOR WAIHEKE WHISKY AT THE 2023 SPIRITS AWARDS

A fantastic result for the Waiheke Whisky team - taking away 4 Golds, 4 Silvers and 1 Bronze medal for the 6 expressions we entered into the 2023 awards. 

Sign up for Kindred Spirits

still crazy

What started as one man's obsession has grown to become a full scale commercial distillery.

Meet the Waiheke Whisky team and see what makes them tick

the process

how we make our whisky

Making whisky by the sea from fresh, salty rainwater, combined with organic Canterbury Malted Barley, gives us our unique taste profile. If you like salinity and seaweed with sweet nuts and cigar smoke with a toffee or two, you're in the right place. Our Island is our biggest ally. 

cask selection and maturation

Traditional ex Bourbon casks rub shoulders with Chardonnay and Syrah ex wine barrels. Learn about our wood philosophy and experimentation. 

OUR LATEST RELEases & NEWS

Join kindred spirits

Our Kindred Spirits Club will be amongst the first to know about our new releases.

SUBSCRIBE NOW

kōrero pono

We come from an island
walk on the sky, the ocean above
lends its briny tang to sleeping casks

They age in dog years
peat-touched spirit breathing life
into the new world whisky fabric

Our horizon glows copper
distilling the past and the future
We Are Waiheke Whisky

Featured articles

World Whisky Awards

World Whisky Awards

Waiheke Whisky Wins Best of Category at 2025 World Whisky Awards WAIHEKE ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND — Waiheke Whisky has achieved international recognition at the prestigious 2025 World Whisky Awards in L...

Read more
Our most peaty whisky is coming, and how you can sample it now.

Our most peaty whisky is coming, and how you can sample it now.

Carbon preserved in whisky. It's no secret we are lovers of peat and Waiheke's mission has to been to produce the finest New Zealand peated whisky.  Since November 2023, we have been making our uni...

Read more
FAIRLIGHT: INTERNATIONAL BLEND

FAIRLIGHT: INTERNATIONAL BLEND

In a first for Waiheke Whisky we announce the launch of FAIRLIGHT our first blend. Not just any old blend but created with the help of master distiller Alan Winchester ex Glenlivet.  This is a deli...

Read more

Are you 18 or older?