From the Hindmarsh Valley, South Australia
Australian single malt, laid stone by stone.
Distilled in the Hindmarsh Valley. Slept in Australian wine, fortified and mead casks. Woken only when it's ready.
Liquid Architecture
In 1868, a wall went up without a drop of mortar.
Jabez Grimble cut the stone from Cut Hill and laid it by hand to make the road to Victor Harbor safer. More than 150 years later it still stands, held together by nothing but skill and patience. That road now leads to our door.
Our founder, Giuliano Ursini, came to whisky by way of architecture. “Whisky is liquid architecture,” he says, so it’s built the same way: no shortcuts. Every cask is tasted and benchmarked on its own, then vatted together by hand by our Head Distiller, Brad Rehn. More than 450 casks are resting in our barrel store now. It takes longer, and it shows in the glass.
From our casks
The whisky
Where it all starts
Foundation Stone
Double cask, ex-mead and Australian red. 47.3%
$179
Made with our mates at Uraidla Brewery
Tomb Dweller
Finished in imperial stout casks. 47.6%
$229
Single cask, limited bottles
Allodola
Ex-muscat cask, celebrating Bill Lark AO
$239
For Stonecutters, at The Spirit Door
Infinity Cask
Filled from the barrel while you watch. 44%
$189
Made here, by hand
A copper still, a barrel store and a great deal of patience.
Everything happens on our block in the Hindmarsh Valley, from mash day to the last cask sample. Old-world methods, a bit of modern know-how and the Fleurieu's sea air doing the slow work in the barrel.
Come and see us
The Spirit Door
Follow the road through the trees and look for the painted doors. Pull up a stool among the barrels, try a tasting paddle, ask us anything, and take a bottle home.
34 Mont Rosa Rd, Hindmarsh Valley SA 5211
Wednesday to Sunday, 12:30pm – 4:30pm
The Stonecutters Club
Poured first for Stonecutters.
Stonecutters hear about new releases first, get Stonecutter pricing, and are invited to tastings with the distillers.