New Zealand Whisky

Thomson Whisky - brings you an updated from the barrel.  Made from 100% New Zealand grown malted barley, smoked using South Island Peat, and distilled through our copper pot still, it's our Peated release in its youth.  Notes on flavour - Iodine, smoke, and sweet vanilla.

Silver Outstanding medal winner IWSC UK 2017
Gold Medal winner San Francisco World Spirit Competition 2016

Thomson - Thomson Whisky brings you an update from the barrel. Made from 100% New Zealand grown malted barley, smoked using Manuka wood, and distilled through a hand beaten copper pot still, it?s our Manuka Smoke release in its youth. This ?work in progress? bottling offers natural smoke, cinnamon, clove, and Manuka oils.No chill filtering
No colouring

Single Malt Whisky aged 3 1/2 years in 50 and 100 litre virgin French oak barrels

100% New Zealand Single Malt Whisky. New make spirit made from 100% Canterbury grown and malted barley. Mashed, fermented and double pot still distilled and aged more than 3 years in a 50 and 100 litre virgin French oak barrels in Christchurch NZ.

Toffee and milk chocolate, oak/wood and soft floral undertones on the nose
Oak, dark caramel, dark cocoa, new leather, creamy tannin, floral and anise on the palate
Slightly drying, oak tannin finish

700ml, 46% Alc/vol

Thomson White Rye is made from New Zealand malted Rye and Barley.  This we've crushed, mashed, fermented and finally, double distilled through our hand beaten copper pot stills.

Unaged spirit - so fresh and so clean, clean.

1919 Distilling - Named for the year that New Zealanders stood up for their rights and voted down prohibition.

1919 Kirikiriroa is the first Whisky released by 1919 Distilling. It was entered into the 2020 New Zealand Spirits awards where it gained a bronze in its category. 

Bottling Details:
- 500ml
- Abv 44% - Single Cask
- Cask Ex NZ Red Wine.
- Barreled Dec 2016
- Bottled 2020
- Packaging Wooden Gift Pack with Branded Glass.

This limited edition Walkman flask contains Thomson Two Tone blended whisky.

Two Tone refers to the two kinds of cask used for the maturation of this whisky; European oak which formerly held New Zealand red wine and American white oak used exclusively for whisky. 

Find sea air and caramelised fruits on the nose, followed by red berries, apricot and spice on the palate. In place of an age statement the infinity symbol marking this bottling is symbolic of the marriage of casks.

No colouring

40% ABV

Thomson Rye and Barley is made from New Zealand grown grain.  This we've crushed, mashed, fermented and finally double distilled through our hand beaten copper pot stills.

Small cask aged for maximum flavour.

Two Tones refers to the two kinds of cask used for the maturation of this blended whisky; European oak which formerly held New Zealand red wine & American white oak used exclusively for whisky.

Two Tone refers to the two kinds of cask used for the maturation of this whisky; European oak which formerly held New Zealand red wine and American white oak used exclusively for whisky. 

Find sea air and caramelised fruits on the nose, followed by red berries, apricot and spice on the palate. In place of an age statement the infinity symbol marking this bottling is symbolic of the marriage of casks.

No colouring

40% ABV

Craft Collection whisky tasters 2 x 100mls

Thomson Two Tone Release 100ml
Thomson Manuka Wood Smoke 100ml

New Zealand made single malt whiskey, 6 years of aging in old Manuka honey mead barrels. 

The result speaks for itself in a very gentle easy to drink whiskey.
This small batch single malt is one of only a few true honey malt whiskeys produced in the world today. It all started in 1998 in a rural Golden Bay shed where WAITUI WHISKEY was born, distilled from a malt mash, then aged in French oak honey mead wine barrels, and finally balanced with the ancient waters of the Te Waikoropupu aquifer resulting in a distinctive single malt honey whiskey. Only small batches of the ?Waitui Malt Whiskey? are produced then hand bottled and labelled ready for sale.

Waitui Manuka Honey Malt Whiskey goes back to the first age whiskeys made by monks that brewed honey mead and drank ale. Distilling in the United Kingdom first arrived around 500AD. Back then they had no sherry or bourbon barrels, but they did have honey mead barrels. They also made barley beer or malt mash which is the starting point of any malt whiskey. The Scottish want us to jump forward 1000 years to John Corr in 1494 who they say made the first whiskey. In this 1000 year gap was the first world whiskeys time of creation. Ageing a malt mash distillate in oak mead barrels is where it all began. Now in new world New Zealand we are going back and have created Waitui Manuka Honey Malt Whiskey.

"No malt blends or additives, only malt mash", explains owner and production manager, Terry Knight. ?The delicate oak gives our whiskey its ?weight? but the distilled malt and ageing in Manuka honey mead wine barrels delivers an almost toffee taste that?s in perfect balance with the malt.?

40% ABV