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Distillery build update 30/8/22

Here's a logistics question? How do you get 6 wash backs, 3 spirit recovery tanks, and a CIP unit to the island? The answer is to hire a barge!. Thanks to Richard Chamberlain for the use of the bar...

Distillery build update. 27/7/22

What a wet and muddy site it is at the moment. Last weekend we moved the first of the brew house tanks onto the slab. The Hiab crane  couldn't negotiate the mud so Andrew and John came to the rescu...

Distillery build update 18/7/22

The slab is in.  30 tonnes of reinforced concrete with channel drains, 300kw of power and water inset.  Its been a wet few weeks and progress is slow but a real milestone today. 

NZ Peated Malt production. A tour in pictures.

Our peated malt comes from the Gladfield maltings in Dunsandel, Canterbury in the South of New Zealand. Doug and Gabbie, are a husband and wife team that   malt the grain themselves founded the com...

Distillery build update 22/6/22

Here is  the first photographic render of the distillery. It gives some idea of the scale of the new stills, and the building.  It's 7m high and 30m long. To the immediate right  you can see the ba...

Evolution of our logo & brand identity.

At Waiheke Whisky, we love to talk about our story, what we stand for as a brand. We've had lots of time to think about things as we made whisky and waited for it to age. We are at heart a group o...

Šeriš: Our sherry finish range.

The Excursion of One Eager to Penetrate the Horizons, [Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq ]  otherwise known as the Tabula Rogeriana, or the map of Roger, was the most complete map of the world ...

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 site, the bottling hall in the distance.  As we are ...

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 the hottest part of the barrel shed up at the top ...

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 Friday night. The Bog Monster is a presented as part o...