Specials

From the Whisk Cellar

This Glen Elgin Single Malt Scotch Whisky is a classic Speysider with a fuller body than most and an inherently luscious fruit character. This is a rare Sauternes Cask finish, distilled in June 2008 and bottled in August 2021.

Colour: Bright Gold.
Nose: Intensely sweet honey covered yellow stone fruits with bold floral notes.
Palate: The sweetness of the Sauternes wine is carried well on the palate alongside a touch of aniseed, buttery bakes and dark honey.
Finish: Long and lip-smackingly sweet.
Bottles: 298.

Introducing Allier. A celebration of NZ single malt whisky and one of the most important French Oak forests: Allier. 

This whisky is made from unsmoked New Zealand grown malted barley and has been matured in a second fill wine cask from the Allier forest, central France. Initial grape notes from the wine have been pulled off in the first fill. What?s left, and what has been imparted is beautifully smooth, balanced, and compliments the malty NZ whisky.

The bottling is giving generous notes of pain aux raisin, dark chocolate, custard, hazelnut.

No of bottles: 312 - limited edition

Cask no: 65

Malt: 100% NZ grown, unsmoked.

Cask spec: Second fill, French oak. 

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

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.

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.

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.

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

This gin is all about Chardonnay, which is combined here with classic and modern gin botanicals. These include juniper, lemon, lemongrass, cardamom, coriander, all beautifully balanced by the big body and weight of Chardonnay, hence the name Blanc de Blancs - white of whites. It?s code for great whites in the wine world and now too in the spirit one.

Heavy botanical style craft gin. Juniper, lemon, lemongrass, cardamom and coriander ? all delicious flavour tones, uniquely decipherable, that hum together with nowhere to hide.

Pondering early rock n? roll, they thought, a few rudimentary instruments working together sound great ? so they worked with the basics to get some robust tones going, then turned up the volume. This stripped back approach is how they created Victor Gin.

"Pondering early rock ?n? roll, we thought, a few rudimentary instruments working together sounds great - lets work with the basics, get some robust tones going, then turn up the volume." Thomson Distillery

This stripped back approach is how Thomson created Victor Gin.  In this edition, Thomson introduced mukrut(kaffir) lime. You?ll get all the original Victor Gin botanicals; juniper, lemon, lemongrass, cardamom and coriander, with mukrut(kaffir) lime loud in the mix.

Just in time for Christmas! People have been asking for a cask strength Manuka Smoke bottling for ages… and now it's here. It's called Full Noise, denoting the cask strength abv, and the deeper, more abundant smoke notes. This is a big limited edition, cask strength, single malt.

Cask: American oak ex Bourbon.  

Malt: 100% NZ grown, Manuka smoked.

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.

The Shotfire Quartage is sourced from the older Thorn-Clarke owned plantings in the Barossa, with 'Kabininge' and 'St Kitts' vineyards being the main contributors.

 This wine is primarily a blend of traditional Bordeaux varietals (Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec) with Cabernet Sauvignon always being dominant. Whilst the Barossa is famous for Shiraz, Thorn-Clarke is renowned for its Quartage which has collected Trophies for best wine of show and / or class at most major wine shows in Australia over the last 10 years.

Astryd is light, fresh and fruity. This juicy pale ale is overflowing with tropical fruit/ flavours and aromas from start to finish, with a delicate hop bitterness for balance.

ABV 3.8% / 500ml bottle