To the contrast of our quiet winter season, the award season results have been anything but quiet. As mentioned before I do like to enter competitions as it keeps things real, up to date and on my toes making sure that I stay in tune to good honest gin making… The season started off with … Read more

Being a small distillery with limited funds I have to choose which competitions I enter annually very carefully. As I work solo and as such become very bias towards me beautiful gins and their flavours, sending them off to competitions to be blind tasted is not only terrifying but provides amazing unbiased feedback from prestigious … Read more

Why make a liqueur?? well why not. We have a saturated gin market and if I am to create a new product then it has to be linked to what I do, have a good story and meaning behind it and be something that I love to bits, like my gins. When I moved to … Read more

Last week I attended the Enterprise North Canterbury business awards Gala. There were 7 businesses from Kaikōura who were finalists and attending the gala evening.. This was an award which I entered back in June… It was the first time I had made time to really get into the nuts and bolts of my business, … Read more

Oh boy what a ride this has been over the last few days…. I spent the last week making sure I had every part of what I needed stocked up… just incase, because people tell you to be prepared, I hadn’t really expected what happened and was living in blissful ignorance of the potential that … Read more

March 23, 2023 Isn’t it funny how one things leads to another, last November I had a lovely visit from Radio NZ to chat about all things gin and why I headed into the distilling business and what I do in my small nano distillery… that lead to a call from the research team at … Read more

Over the last year, I have been working hard with legislation and licencing to be able to offer tours, tastings and sales from the distillery. Once I had met all the criteria and my doors were open, it was a natural progression to then ensure that the foundations of the distillery and work that goes … Read more

When I created this small business of mine, one of my visions was to give back to the local community by donating to worthy causes. It is with great delight that I can share with you that after a year of shearwater gin sales I have been able to donate just under $1500 to the … Read more

When I moved to New Zealand 22 years ago the first thing I bought was this trusty Landcruiser to get me up the ski hills and into the backcountry. Since having a family I upgraded to a “normal’ truck but have always had the need to keep this old faithful. After dealing with the rust … Read more