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Country Calendar (a popular NZ farming TV program) last night (1 May) featured a
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barley farmer from Southland who decided to add value to his crop 5 years ago by
making whisky. Auld Farm Distillery will release it’s first whisky as an 8yo in 2025. They
are interesting in that they are experimenting with different varieties of barley, including
rare heritage varieties, and are also distilling other grains from the farm. You can buy an
aging cask, https://www.aulddistillery.co.nz/casks.

Another new New Zealand distillery that has been mentioned here before is Cardrona.
They have a lot of maturing casks now (you can buy these also) but supposedly have
not released any whisky yet. However, the pair shown were bottled in England by ‘The
Whisky Nest’ and sold in the April Whisky Auction for £22.

Cardrona Distillery
has been selling
some white spirits for
some income whilst
the whisky is
maturing. I have
shown you Source
Gin before but there
is now also The Reid

Single Malt Vodka. Cardrona Distillery has
been selling some white spirits for some
income whilst the whisky is maturing. I
have shown you Source Gin before but
there is now also The Reid Single Malt
Vodka. It is 40ml 44%.

MeMax Trading ltd sell these two 100ml
plastic tubes which, other than being
plastic, look just like the French WIT tubes
but these are new Zealand bottles. I bought
these last month from Black Bull Liquor in
Porirua and got the last Peach vodka, the
other is Original Vodka. Both are 100ml, 40%.

They were made by Welove Group Ltd but this company went into liquidation in March last year so I have no
idea if they are still being made. The MeMax web site is still up, https://www.memax.co.nz, and they do mail

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