The Chinese name JiuJiu is a reference to “be lucky and make nine” from Pai gow/Pai jiu, an ancient Chinese game now known as Baccarat. Nine is the best one can achieve; we made JiuJiu vodka for people who want to be the best they can be at whatever they choose to be.
Kiwi Spirits are temporarily closed while our new distillery and plant are ‘Under Construction’. Online orders are still available but please note, Te Kiwi 100% Blue Agave Spirit is currently out of stock due to unprecedented demand and sales over the past year. More barrels of Waitui Honey Malt Whiskey are slowly reaching their 6 year maturation date in our new bonded storehouse. By Dec 2017 these barrels will be fully mature and we will commence bottling the delicious gold liquid manuka honey whiskey once again in January 2018. The new distillery is sited on the old Golden Bay...
One of the great things about New Zealand is that we can grow all kinds of stuff here. But there is some stuff you would automatically assume we might as well just forget about. But one intrepid farmer in the Golden Bay region has grown something we've never grown here before, and it makes a clear liquid which will definitely brighten up your day. If you guessed tequila, you guessed right. But he's also in trouble with the Mexican mafia – not something you want. Story visited the man who has managed to make something no other person in New...
Terry Knight of Schnapp Dragon distillery in Golden Bay has grown and harvested New Zealand's first Weber Blue Agave Tequiliana plants and produced New Zealand's first Agave Spirit (known by the world as Tequila).
Terry Knight can raise a toast to success after releasing a tequila he has painstakingly produced in Golden Bay. "It was incredibly positive, no-one else produces it here, so that made it really special," said Knight...
Te Radar visits Golden Bay and meets with Terry Knight of Schnapp Dragon distillery to talk about the first New Zealand Agave Spirit, grown , harvested and distilled right here in Takaka.
Bonnie Prince Charles passed on the secret recipe for Scottish whiskey liqueur, a drink originally made for the Scottish Royal House, to the Mackinnons in 1746 in gratitude for facilitating his flight from Scotland.
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