News – Waiheke Whisky

Waiheke Whisky release plans for 2022

Waiheke Whisky release plans for 2022

We are proud to introduce “Adventures in New Zealand Peat”. After over a decade of distilling, filling, storing, refilling, marrying and vatting...

Awards

Before we had a logo or a release plan we entered our whisky into some competitions, the first back in 2018 picking up a Silver medal in the SFW...

Our new stills are on their way from Scotland

We have ordered new 6 metre tall copper stills from the Speyside Copperworks, Speyside, Scotland. These have been handmade to our requirements, inc...

To Peat or not to Peat (what is your preference?)

For the first couple of years we distilled unpeated barley (malt) primarily because we hadn't been huge fans of peated whisky. That changed.

Five go to Dramfest

The team of 5 mates from Waiheke Whisky set off to Christchurch on a Friday night in March 2018 to experience our very first New Zealand Dramfest ...

A new DRAM is born

When you take a good look around our website www.waihekewhisky.com and read our story you'll see this has been quite a journey. A 10 year ride so ...

A BOX FULL OF GOLD

We have been going through the barrels to get samples for the tastings we will start this year. Each barrel has a code and a corresponding entry i...