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New distillery build update: 15/6/22

New distillery build update: 15/6/22

Winter is here and the distillery build is full steam ahead. The base foundations, piles and block walls are in place. Initial grading of the si...

Waihekes' Angels.

Dog years; thats the phrase we've christened for the aging of Waiheke Whisky. To put it mildly, our angels share is insane. Up to 15 % per year in ...

Bog Monster wins best in Category: World Whisky at NZSA

Friday 10th June 2022. Our heavily peated single malt, Bog Monster won the best in category for World Whisky at the New Zealand Spirits Awards Frid...

Our thoughts on labelling, transparency and batch production.

A large part of the language of whisky seems to be a combination of tradition and mystery. This weaves a picture of dark arts; secret methods and ...

Why NZ peat is different.

We set out not to make a facsimile of Scottish whisky in New Zealand, rather a Whisky of this country, using our barley, water, yeasts and in our c...

V.I.T.R.I.O.L

Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem. You will see this motto inscribed on the bottom of our bottles and hidden in the ba...

On Triangles, Geodesics and our spirit still.

The keen eyed will have noticed our spirit still doesn't look like many others of its ilk. The neck, Lyne arm and condensers are all familiar but ...

Why a screw cap? Closure on the matter.

In some ways the most controversial and yet the easiest decisions we made in our release planning. We looked long and hard at closures, the practi...

Our bespoke 700ml bottle design, a first look.

Making whisky in 2022 is not just about good liquid, we have a chance to break convention and innovate for a better future. Sustainability is not j...

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 for Waiheke Whisky (2022 Update)

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.