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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...

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...

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...

Bog Monster

Awarded of ‘Best World Whisky’ at the NZ Spirits Awards 2022, we celebrated the the first distillation at the new Waiheke Whisky Distillery by releasing a very limited number of bottles of our hi...

Cantankerous

We are huge geeks here at Waiheke Whisky, not just all things whisky, but cars, tech, music and we love our sci-fi. One of Mark's favourite authors was Iain Banks. He sadly passed in 2013, and wit...

MOSS

Moss was our first release for Waiheke Whisky. Representing the culmination of a decade of distilling and learning the process of making single malt in NZ, we opted for a peated expression for this...

The Sweetwater

The Sweetwater was our second release, with a distillers malt offering. This non peated French oak cask finish is a delicate complex whisky showing Patricks skill as both a wine maker and a distill...

DYAD

Dyad is our double cask range. The Greek Pythagoreans called the principle of "twoness" or "otherness", "Dyad", and represented it with this symbol. It became the pythagorean numeric expression fo...

BOG MONSTER BALLOT

After hundreds of enquiries and recently awarded of ‘Best World Whisky’ at the NZ Spirits Awards, we have decided to celebrate the first distillation at the New Waiheke Whisky Distillery by releasi...

Visit us at The Heke

Our distillery is based at The Heke, a beautiful site with a restaurant, 2 bars, a function room and lots of space for kids, dogs and families. The 'HEKE is at 64 Onetangi Road, direct...