30% off on ALL their products.
Can be stacked with VIP 5% discount and VIP free shipping on orders over $120
Their gin won Gold Medal at the World Gin Awards in 2018.
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This is their annual biggest sale. Usually runs for the whole month of October.
Most don't distill. They buy the gin or vodka in bulk, add their botanicals ('flavouring') and bottle it, on sell.
How do I know - my friend owns a gin label and does just this.
But I think these guys might be different.
Yeah - that's what I figured.
Should have put "distilleries"
Yeah this bloke actually started his business in his parents’ ewe’s milk cheesery. He distills his alcohol from the whey (which was a waste product for them). He started with a still he bought from gumtree then randomly won an award for best vodka in the world at a pretty legit international spirits show in San Fran. It is genuinely a great product.
No matter how they dress it up it's just neutral spirit at the end of the day. It's not aged for a decade in a cask or anything that might remotely justify the prices
There is a substantial cost to the consumer imposed by a spirit excise tax @ $100.05/l of spirit (See table #2 - https://www.ato.gov.au/business/excise-on-alcohol/excise-dut…).
Which (correct me if I'm wrong) works out to be $28.00 per 700ml @ 40%avb. Then you've got gst, distribution, marketing, rent, bottling cost etc etc etc.
I can't imagine this place is making huge swags of cash selling a 700ml bottle at $68.25 (deal rate) plus shipping. Breaking even at best IMO.
Yes, a big chunk is operating costs, but every spirit will have the same excise, gst, distribution, marketing, rent, bottling cost etc. If anything, direct to consumer sales should reduce a lot of these costs. This company is selling vodka and gin for $105 per 700ml bottle. You can find them on Dan Murphy's at $101 for 500ml. This is double and triple what you can get pretty decent vodka/gin for.
Neutral spirit is made of cheap ingredients (in this case it's excess cheese sludge), the process has been well-established for centuries and the business model is tried and tested. Small distilleries can stay boutique and target yuppies who aren't concerned about value, and/or build their brand and hopefully grow into an international presence. Increased volume will scale their profits and they are off to the races.
@Nubbin: This bloke is fermenting sheep’s whey into alcohol and distilling it. I’m assuming there’s some enzyme trickery involved to turn the whey into a digestible sugar for the yeast. It does have a discernible taste and mouthfeel that’s quite unique and has won best vodka in the world at San Fran international spirits show.
This doesnt look like your average distillary.
That said, yeah for your run of the mill gin, at this point you may as well just buy british. Like, I wanna support aussie but it's increasingly harder and harder to.
Yeah pretty sure these guys are a real deal distillery, using by-product from their dairy/cheese business. I've tried some of their stuff before and it's pretty good.
Looks like they're doing their own "Whey-sky" ready for 2025 too
Exactly. It fascinates me how people immediately jump on the criticism wagon without actually finding out what the business about. They do everything themselves producing very unique products using sheep’s whey the by products of their cheese making business. They hand dip all their bottles in wax and hand write all the info in each bottle. Ryan (the owner) started the distillery because he didn’t know what to do with all that excess whey. And his wife started business making skin care products out of the sheep’s whey and sheep’s milk. Pretty incredible small businesses from Tassie.
The clear spirits craze has definitely jumped the shark for mine. It was an incredibly lucrative market to get into years ago because of how quickly (and cheaply) you can turn product around (you can create a perfectly good gin from wash to bottle in less than 12 days) and the market was just going nuts for it, so as long as a distillery wasn't producing paint stripper it was more or less an incredibly quick way to create a profitable alcohol brand, something that appeals to a lot of people.
The market is completely saturated now though not just in Australia but overseas markets as well. Demand in the US is dropping off a cliff for a lot of new age 'craft' alcohols.
These are very unique spirits made out of sheep’s whey.
Insanely good gin, been to their distillery they are serious about their sheep whey gin and vodka.
Can’t agree more! I’ve been following Ryan since I 1st came across his small display of the very first ever batch at the Mona ferry dock in Hobart during Dark Mofo in 2015.
Think I was there the same year, picked up a special edition DM bot with the red wax.
Is it just me or are there so many small Gin and Vodka distilleries with high prices now that I just go "meh".
Having said that, I have bought a few small maker Gins lately on clearance at First Choice etc.