Hartshorn Distillery · Australia
Hartshorn Gin Sheep Whey 40% 500ml
AUD, GST included. Competitively priced.
In stock.
Any 6 bottles across your order. Applied automatically in the cart, where you will also see how close you are.
- Free delivery over $499 (excl. NT)
- Usually arrives in 4 to 12 business days
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| Category | Gin |
|---|---|
| Region | Birchs Bay |
| Country | Australia |
| Producer | Hartshorn Distillery |
| ABV | 40% |
| Size | 500ml |
Tasting note
The base spirit is not grain. It is distilled from sheep whey, the liquid left behind when milk is turned into cheese, and that is what gives this gin a softer, rounder mouthfeel than a neutral grain gin has. You notice it as weight on the tongue before you notice any botanical.
Six native Australian botanicals sit alongside juniper, and they are vapour infused rather than steeped, which keeps the aromatics delicate. Expect petal and citrus on the nose and a hint of cut hay underneath, with juniper present but not leading.
That delicacy has a practical consequence: a heavy, quinine forward tonic will bury it. Use a light tonic at one to two, or better, plain soda with a grapefruit peel, and let the texture show. It also makes an unusually soft martini, stirred very cold with a dry vermouth at five to one.
Made at Birchs Bay in southern Tasmania, 40 per cent, 500ml. It sits in our Australian Spirits range.
Delivery information
Most orders leave within 2 to 7 business days depending on the item. If anything is delayed we will tell you.
Free delivery on orders over $499, anywhere in Australia except the Northern Territory, which we do not deliver to. Standard rates apply below that and are calculated at checkout.
Once your order is confirmed you will receive a shipping notification with a tracking reference. Larger or mixed orders sometimes travel as more than one parcel, and you will get tracking for each.
Alcohol can only be delivered to a person aged 18 or over. The courier may ask for photo ID and will not leave your order unattended. We do not offer authority to leave on alcohol orders.
We do not deliver to PO boxes or parcel lockers.
Case minimums
Some products are sold only in cases of three, six or twelve. Where that applies it is stated above the add to cart button, not discovered at checkout.
Cases ship as a single carton. The per-case price shown includes every bottle in the case.
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Hartshorn Distillery
Hartshorn Distillery shares land with Grandvewe Cheeses. We are the same family with the same goal: reducing waste and caring for the planet. Whey, often discarded in cheesemaking, is repurposed into alcohol. Using a welding rod, an old beer keg, and internet research, we created vodka. Double-distilled and unfiltered, we use only the best 10 percent of each distillate, producing 150 bottles per batch.
Our success with vodka led us to create gin, using sheep's whey and native botanicals like lemon myrtle, anise myrtle, wattleseed, juniper berries, and Tasmanian pepper leaf. We also make whey-based liqueur and whey-sky, a unique take on whiskey.
Hartshorn was born from a need to reduce waste and a desire to flip the script on traditional spirit-making and flip the bird to those who said it couldn’t happen. We’ve been told our packaging process — hand-painting and individually signing our name to our bottles — is ridiculous. And, look, maybe it is, but it’s also fizzy-knickers sexy and one of the most iconic bottle designs in Australia, holding its own on any bar shelf. We’ve also been told our small batch process is unsustainable. It’s not only still going, but it’s making some of the country’s most distinctive and award-winning craft spirits.
Local Craftsmanship
From the very beginning, we believed in all of this because we believed in the values it was being built on. We just wanted to make something good, something unique, that we’d held in our hands from start to finish. We’re gonna keep doing that, but it’s real nice that what we do has come to mean something to others too.