43 Best Tasmanian Whisky Distilleries

Tasmania has become one of the world’s most celebrated whisky regions, and the island now has more active single malt distilleries than anywhere else in Australia. From the founding house of LARK to the World’s Best winner Sullivans Cove, these are the best Tasmanian whisky distilleries currently producing their own spirit, each verified to operate with a cellar door, location, and flagship details so you can plan a visit or build a collection. For the wider picture, see our guide to the best Australian whisky.

At a Glance: The Best of Tasmanian Whisky

• Best Overall: Sullivans Cove Distillery
• The Pioneer: LARK Distillery
• Best to Visit: Callington Mill Distillery
• Best Value: Hellyers Road Distillery
• Best Boutique: Belgrove Distillery

List of the Best Tasmanian Whisky Distilleries

1. Sullivans Cove Distillery

Sullivans Cove was established in 1994 at Hobart’s historic waterfront docks and relocated to an industrial estate in Cambridge in 2003-04 under new ownership. Its French Oak single cask HH525 won World’s Best Single Malt at the 2014 World Whiskies Awards, the first non-Scotch or Japanese whisky to claim the title, and a AU$14 million facility expansion completed in late 2024 doubled production capacity for the distillery’s 30th anniversary.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Greater Hobart / Cambridge
• Address: 1/10 Lamb Pl, Cambridge TAS 7170, Australia
• Founded: 1994 (relocated from Hobart docks to Cambridge 2003-04)
• Flagship: French Oak Single Cask, American Oak Single Cask, Double Cask
• Cellar door: Yes (Cambridge)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: sullivanscove.com

2. LARK Distillery

LARK was founded in 1992 by Bill Lark after he successfully lobbied to amend Tasmania’s 1901 Distillation Act, making him the acknowledged father of modern Australian craft distilling. Now operating from Cambridge and the former Shene Estate at Pontville (acquired 2022 for AU$40 million), LARK holds Australia’s largest single malt inventory and is the island’s most internationally prominent whisky brand.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Cambridge (Greater Hobart) + Pontville (Greater Hobart, 30 min north)
• Address: 76 Shene Rd, Pontville TAS 7030, Australia
• Founded: 1992 by Bill Lark
• Flagship: Classic Cask, Cask Strength, Symphony No.1 Blended Malt (World Whiskies Awards Best Blended Malt 2022-2025)
• Cellar door: Yes (Pontville; also Hobart CBD cellar door on Davey St)
• Tours and tastings: Yes (Pontville only)
• Website: larkdistillery.com

3. Overeem Whisky (Sawford Distillery)

Overeem Whisky was created by Casey Overeem at Old Hobart Distillery and became one of Tasmania’s most celebrated early single malts before Lark Distilling acquired the brand in 2014. The brand returned to the founding family in June 2020 when daughter Jane and son-in-law Mark Sawford completed a AU$962,000 acquisition, and production continues from their Huntingfield distillery under the Sawford Distillery operation.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South Hobart / Huntingfield
• Address: 4/30 Patriarch Dr, Huntingfield TAS 7055, Australia
• Founded: Brand founded c. 2007 by Casey Overeem at Old Hobart Distillery; Sawford Distillery established 2017 by Jane and Mark Sawford; brand returned to founding family June 2020
• Flagship: Port Wood, Sherry Wood, Bourbon Wood
• Cellar door: Yes (2 Macquarie Street, Hobart waterfront)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: overeemwhisky.com

4. Spring Bay Distillery

Spring Bay Distillery was founded by Cam and Suzy Brett in 2015 on Tasmania’s East Coast, combining an original cellar door overlooking Spring Beach with a larger grain-to-glass production facility built in Cambridge in 2019. Their single malt is distilled using a mineral-rich blend of pristine east coast rainwater enhanced by the coastal sea air of Spring Bay.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: East Coast / Spring Beach (near Triabunna) + Cambridge (Greater Hobart, second production site)
• Address: 205 Kennedy Dr, Cambridge TAS 7170, Australia
• Founded: 2015 by Cam and Suzy Brett
• Flagship: Single Malt Whisky, Gin, Vodka; multiple cask finishes
• Cellar door: Yes (both Spring Beach and Cambridge locations)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: springbaydistillery.com.au

5. Hellyers Road Distillery

Hellyers Road Distillery was founded in 1997 by a group of dairy farming families from Burnie and named for explorer Henry Hellyer’s road surveyed in 1827, making it one of Tasmania’s oldest continuously operating single malt producers. The distillery is famed for its exceptionally slow 45-hour distillation process and its Pinot Noir Finish expression, voted Best New World Whisky at Paris’s Whisky Live in 2013.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Cradle Coast (Northwest) / Burnie
• Address: 153 Old Surrey Rd, Havenview TAS 7320, Australia
• Founded: 1997 (founded by Betta Milk group of dairy farming families)
• Flagship: Original Single Malt, Slightly Peated, Pinot Noir Finish, Whisky Cream
• Cellar door: Yes (Burnie)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: hellyersroaddistillery.com.au

6. Waubs Harbour Distillery

Waubs Harbour Distillery was built by brothers Tim and Rob Polmear in a converted oyster hatchery metres from the Tasman Sea at Bicheno on Tasmania’s East Coast, officially opened by the Tasmanian Premier in April 2023. Hundreds of casks mature on site in proximity to the ocean, developing the maritime character that defines the distillery’s single malt.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: East Coast / Bicheno
• Address: 42 Waubs Esplanade, Bicheno TAS 7215, Australia
• Founded: Planning began 2017; distillery built c. 2020-22; first release April 2023
• Flagship: Waubs Original Maritime Single Malt, limited releases
• Cellar door: Yes (Bicheno)
• Tours and tastings: Yes (Monday to Saturday)
• Website: waubsharbourwhisky.com

7. Callington Mill Distillery

Callington Mill Distillery is set within a restored 1837 Georgian windmill in Oatlands, Tasmania’s most historic inland town, and was founded by John Ibrahim in collaboration with Bill Lark using 100% Tasmanian barley and a fully automated closed-loop distillation system. The distillery has won the Icons of Whisky Awards for Global Visitor Attraction of the Year and Craft Producer of the Year.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Midlands / Oatlands
• Address: 6 Mill Ln, Oatlands TAS 7120, Australia
• Founded: c. 2019 (within the restored 1837 Georgian windmill)
• Flagship: Tasmanian Single Malt, limited cask releases, Serendipity blended expressions
• Cellar door: Yes (inside historic windmill precinct)
• Tours and tastings: Yes (self-guided and Serendipity Experience)
• Website: callingtonmilldistillery.com

8. William McHenry & Sons Distillery

William McHenry & Sons Distillery sits at 43 degrees south on the Tasman Peninsula, claiming to be the world’s southernmost family-owned and operated boutique distillery, and draws water from five pristine natural springs on the property. The maritime climate at Port Arthur imparts a subtle iodine note to the whisky that has made it sought after by collectors worldwide.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Tasman Peninsula / Port Arthur
• Address: 229 Radnor Rd, Port Arthur TAS 7182, Australia
• Founded: c. 2011 by William McHenry
• Flagship: Single Malt, Gin, Vodka; maritime-influenced expressions
• Cellar door: Yes (Port Arthur)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: mchenrydistillery.com.au

9. Fannys Bay Distillery

Fannys Bay Distillery is one of Tasmania’s smallest family operations, founded in 2014 by former auto electrician Mathew Cooper in a repurposed garage within 150 metres of Bass Strait at Lulworth on the state’s northern coast. The distillery produces an unusually broad range of single malt expressions across sherry, port, bourbon, pinot, shiraz, chardonnay and peated cask styles in micro-batches.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: North Coast / Lulworth (Tam O’ Shanter), near Bass Strait
• Address: Tam O’Shanter, 15 Seascape Dr, Lulworth TAS 7252, Australia
• Founded: 2014 by Mathew and Julie Cooper
• Flagship: Bourbon Cask, Port Cask, Sherry Cask, Pinot Cask, Peated; all in 20-litre French oak
• Cellar door: No formal cellar door (home distillery); by appointment
• Tours and tastings: By appointment
• Website: fannysbaydistillery.com.au

10. Hobart Whisky

Hobart Whisky is an independent family distillery founded in 2014 in Moonah, just north of Hobart CBD, producing 100% Tasmanian malted barley single malt matured primarily in American oak ex-bourbon casks. The Hobart Signature expression maintains a consistent house style, complemented by a programme of limited cask-finish releases.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Greater Hobart / Moonah
• Address: 1 Gormanston Rd, Moonah TAS 7009, Australia
• Founded: 2014 (began producing 2015)
• Flagship: Hobart Signature Single Malt, limited cask-finish editions
• Cellar door: Yes
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: hobartwhisky.com.au

11. Old Kempton Distillery

Old Kempton Distillery began operation in 2012 as Redlands Distillery with an ambition to create a paddock-to-bottle Tasmanian single malt modelled on Scotland’s Kilchoman farm distillery, and also claims to be the first commercial rye distillery in Australia. The distillery grows, malts, ferments and distils entirely on site at its Kempton farm property.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Midlands / Kempton
• Address: 26 Main St, Kempton TAS 7030, Australia
• Founded: 2012 (as Redlands Distillery; rebranded Old Kempton)
• Flagship: Paddock-to-bottle Single Malt; first commercial rye in Australia
• Cellar door: Yes (cafe on site)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: oldkemptondistillery.com.au

12. Cradle Mountain Whisky

Cradle Mountain Whisky traces its origins to 1989 when Brian Poke and Don Cameron began distilling near Ulverstone in Northwest Tasmania, predating LARK’s commercial operation and making it the oldest continuous whisky enterprise in modern Tasmania. Originally known as Darwin Distillery, then Franklin Distillery (honouring the local Franklin barley), the brand has since relocated while retaining its Northwest heritage.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Cradle Coast (Northwest) / Ulverstone (historical base; now Tamar Valley)
• Address: Cradle Mountain TAS 7306, Australia
• Founded: 1989 (as Darwin Distillery near Ulverstone; oldest continuous whisky project in modern Tasmania)
• Flagship: Pure Tasmanian Malt, aged expressions
• Cellar door: Yes
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: cradlemountainwhisky.com

13. Corra Linn Distillery

Corra Linn Distillery is set in Relbia overlooking the North Esk River valley near Launceston and takes its name from a famous Scottish waterfall, producing a distinctive triple-distilled single malt using both pot still and column stills in a process unique in Tasmania. Established in 2015 with a first release in 2019, the whisky uses Tasmanian honey and custom-coopered locally charred oak barrels.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: North / Relbia (near Launceston, overlooking North Esk River valley)
• Address: 93 Correa Dr, Relbia TAS 7258, Australia
• Founded: 2015 (first release 2019)
• Flagship: Triple-Distilled Single Malt; port and sherry cask finishes
• Cellar door: Yes
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: corralinndistillery.com.au

14. Launceston Distillery

Launceston Distillery has operated since 2013 from within Hangar 17, a heritage-listed 1932 aviation building at Launceston Airport and Tasmania’s oldest surviving aviation structure. Using pure South Esk River water and Tasmanian malted barley, the distillery produces fruity, floral single malt expressions bottled at 46% ABV with a range of limited single cask editions.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: North / Launceston Airport (Hangar 17)
• Address: 287 Evandale Rd, Western Junction TAS 7212, Australia
• Founded: 2013 by Chris Condon, Chris Byrne, Rob Carroll, Peta Dolan, Ilya Brucksch
• Flagship: Hangar 17 Single Malt (fruity, floral), limited cask releases
• Cellar door: Yes (Hangar 17)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: launcestondistillery.com.au

15. Belgrove Distillery

Belgrove Distillery in Kempton, about 50 kilometres north of Hobart, is a one-man operation run by Peter Bignell, a long-established Tasmanian sheep and grain farmer, agricultural scientist and internationally recognised ice and sand sculptor who built the distillery’s copper pot still by hand. It is Australia’s first rye whisky distillery, producing a genuine paddock-to-bottle spirit from rye Bignell grows on his own property. The still runs on biodiesel he makes himself from used cooking oil collected from the roadhouse next door, the same fuel that powers every piece of machinery on the farm, making Belgrove the only biodiesel-fired distillery in the world. Malting and smoking happen in a repurposed domestic washer-dryer he converted himself. For the signature Wholly Shit release, the smoking fuel is dried sheep manure collected from his flock, the same animals that eat the spent mash after each run, closing the production loop entirely, and the grassy, phenolic smoke it imparts is nothing like Scottish peat. That release drew a global audience when Gordon Ramsay came to shovel the manure for the 2020 season of his National Geographic series Uncharted. Bignell is also the man who, after a Sydney natural-wine festival, hauled 500 litres of spat-out wine home from the spit buckets and redistilled it into a clear, grappa-style spirit he called Kissing a Stranger, proof, he says, that he hates waste in any form. In 2019 his Peated Rye was named Southern Hemisphere Whisky of the Year in Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Midlands / Kempton
• Address: 3121 Midland Hwy, Kempton TAS 7030, Australia
• Founded: 2015 (Peter Bignell distilling since 2008; licensed and commercial from 2015)
• Flagship: Rye Whisky, Peated Rye, White Rye; paddock-to-bottle
• Cellar door: Yes
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: belgrovedistillery.com.au

16. 7K Distillery

7K Distillery was built by Tyler Clark in 2017 from three modified shipping containers, including a hand-fabricated copper pot still, on a rural property near Hobart, and is named for Tasmania’s 7000-series postal codes. The distillery has earned a strong collector following for its bold, richly-matured single malts aged in ex-sherry and pinot noir casks, with tastings at a charming tasting house in New Norfolk.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South / Derwent Park (distillery); New Norfolk (tasting house)
• Address: 55 Hamilton Rd, New Norfolk TAS 7140, Australia
• Founded: 2017 by Tyler Clark
• Flagship: Single Malt (ex-sherry, ex-pinot noir casks); limited releases
• Cellar door: Yes (New Norfolk tasting house)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: 7kdistillery.com.au

17. Deviant Distillery

Deviant Distillery in Sandy Bay was founded by industrial chemist John Hyslop on the basis of a proprietary carbon-neutral technology that achieves accelerated maturation without additives or chemical catalysts, producing expressions claimed to replicate the character of ten-year-old whisky in ten weeks. The distillery uses 100% Tasmanian malted barley, converts waste to electricity and saves one million litres of water per year relative to conventional methods.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South / Sandy Bay, Hobart
• Founded: c. 2017-18 by John Hyslop
• Flagship: Single Malt; accelerated-maturation expressions
• Cellar door: Yes (Sandy Bay)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: deviantdistillery.com

18. Adams Distillery

Adams Distillery was founded in 2016 by co-founders Adam Pinkard and Adam Saunders at the Glen Ireh estate in Perth and released its first distinctively heavy single malt in late 2018, before a fire destroyed the distillery building in February 2021 while leaving all maturing casks unharmed. The distillery rebuilt and has since expanded its production and spirit range.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: North / Perth (15 minutes south of Launceston), Glen Ireh Estate
• Address: 7 Eskleigh Rd, Perth TAS 7300, Australia
• Founded: 2016 by Adam Pinkard and Adam Saunders; first release 2018
• Flagship: Single Malt (heavy, slightly smoky), Gin
• Cellar door: Yes
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: adamsdistillery.com.au

19. Iron House Brewery & Distillery

Iron House began as a craft brewery on the East Coast in 2007 and expanded into single malt whisky distillation in 2015, releasing the Tasman Whisky range in 2019 after four years of maturation in port, sherry, bourbon and locally grown Pinot Noir vineyard barrels. The property incorporates a vineyard, brewery and distillery, giving the operation an unusually complete range of craft beverages.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: East Coast / Four Mile Creek (Break O’Day area, Bay of Fires region)
• Address: White Sands Estate, 21554 Tasman Hwy, Four Mile Creek TAS 7215, Australia
• Founded: Brewery 2007; whisky distillation from 2015; Tasman Whisky launched 2019
• Flagship: Tasman Whisky Bourbon Cask, Sherry Cask, Port Cask, Pinot Noir Finish
• Cellar door: Yes
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: ironhouse.com.au

20. Nonesuch Distillery

Nonesuch Distillery was founded in 2015 by Rex Burdon on a farm near Sorell initially as a gin operation before Rex’s son Chris introduced both a traditional single malt and a distinctive American-style triple grain whisky to the portfolio. The distillery is set amid pastoral countryside 25 minutes east of Hobart and takes its name from the motto “none such” that Rex’s family encountered in historical research.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South / Near Sorell (25 minutes east of Hobart), rural farm
• Address: 491 Arthur Hwy, Forcett TAS 7173, Australia
• Founded: 2015 by Rex Burdon and Annette Lodewikus; first whisky release 2018
• Flagship: Single Malt, Triple Grain Whisky (corn, rye, barley), Sloe Gin
• Cellar door: Yes
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: nonesuchdistillery.com.au

21. Killara Distillery

Killara Distillery was founded in 2016 by Kristy Booth-Lark in Richmond’s Coal Valley, making it Australia’s first second-generation distillery and the first solely female-owned and operated distillery in the country. The 600-litre copper pot still was custom-designed with the condenser at the top rather than the side, producing complex single malt that reflects Kristy’s deep technical grounding from years as production and general manager at LARK.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South / Richmond, Coal Valley (30 minutes from Hobart)
• Address: 32 Ogilvie Ln, Richmond TAS 7025, Australia
• Founded: 2016 by Kristy Booth-Lark (daughter of Bill and Lyn Lark)
• Flagship: Killara Single Malt, Apothecary Gin
• Cellar door: Yes (Richmond)
• Tours and tastings: Yes (Distillery School, gin blending and whisky blending experiences)
• Website: killaradistillery.com

22. Lawrenny Estate Distillery

Lawrenny Estate Distillery operates from a 400-acre highland property in Ouse first developed in 1813, producing one of the world’s few genuinely paddock-to-bottle estate single malts by growing its own barley, malting and distilling on site, and drawing water from the Derwent River. Founded in 2017 by the Mace family, who transformed the former cattle property, the distillery gained international recognition after engaging master distiller Joe Dinsmoor.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Central Highlands / Ouse (1 hour 15 minutes northwest of Hobart)
• Address: 6485 Lyell Hwy, Ouse TAS 7140, Australia
• Founded: 2017 by the Mace family
• Flagship: Lawrenny Estate Single Malt (paddock-to-bottle, estate-grown barley)
• Cellar door: Yes
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: lawrenny.com

23. Clyde Mill Distillery

Clyde Mill Distillery occupies the historic former Nant Estate at Bothwell, centred on a water-powered flour mill on the Clyde River dating to the 1820s, under the ownership of the Ramsay family after LARK Distilling sold the Bothwell site in early 2025. The distillery is selling Nant whisky stocks distilled between 2019 and 2021 as Clyde Mill while laying down new make single malt for future aged releases, alongside a restaurant and cellar door.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Central Highlands / Bothwell (former Nant Estate, 1 hour from Hobart)
• Address: 254 Nant Ln, Bothwell TAS 7030, Australia
• Founded: 2023-24 by the Ramsay family (generational Bothwell farmers)
• Flagship: Clyde Mill Single Malt (sourced Nant stocks 2019-21 + new make), Highland Gin
• Cellar door: Yes (restaurant and cellar door on site)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: clydemill.com.au

24. Southern Wild Distillery

Southern Wild Distillery was founded in 2017 by food scientist George Burgess in central Devonport and is named after the Dasher and Fisher rivers that flow from Cradle Mountain to the sea, the same names used for its internationally celebrated gin range. The distillery also produces single malt whisky alongside the Dasher + Fisher gins, which include the World’s Best London Dry Gin in 2017 and Best Australian Gin in 2019.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Cradle Coast (Northwest) / Devonport
• Address: tenancy 5/13-17 Oldaker St, Devonport TAS 7310, Australia
• Founded: 2017 by food scientist George Burgess
• Flagship: Dasher + Fisher Mountain Gin, Meadow Gin, Ocean Gin (world and national award winners); single malt whisky
• Cellar door: Yes (central Devonport)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: southernwild.com.au

25. Furneaux Distillery

Furneaux Distillery was founded on Flinders Island by childhood friends Damien Newton Brown and Howard McCorkell after a visit to Islay revealed the similarities between Scotland’s peated maritime island whiskies and what Flinders Island’s native peat, pure rainwater and salt-laden air could produce. The distillery produces richly smoky, locally peated single malts that evoke the remote island environment on an island of around 900 residents.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Islands / Flinders Island (Sawyers Bay, northeast of Tasmania)
• Address: 1 Sawyers Bay Rd, Emita TAS 7255, Australia
• Founded: c. 2018-20 by Damien Newton Brown and Howard McCorkell
• Flagship: Peated Maritime Single Malt, gin; experimental small-batch spirits
• Cellar door: Yes (guided tastings, walking tours, farm visits)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: furneauxdistillery.com.au

26. Turner Stillhouse

Turner Stillhouse was founded in 2018 by American-born Justin Turner at Rosevears, overlooking the Tamar Valley, and debuted Tasmania’s first bourbon-style whiskey alongside a traditional single malt under the Rosevears brand using a 3,000-litre copper hybrid still imported from Oregon. The distillery uses 100% Tasmanian grains, mills and mashes on site, and the Three Cuts Gin was expanding into the US market as of late 2024.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: North / Rosevears, Tamar Valley (15 minutes from Launceston)
• Address: 1A Waldhorn Dr, Rosevears TAS 7277, Australia
• Founded: 2018 by Justin Turner (American-born, ex-finance)
• Flagship: Rosevears Single Malt Whisky, Rosevears Three Grain Whiskey (Tasmania’s first bourbon-style); Three Cuts Gin
• Cellar door: Yes (Tamar Valley, co-located with Tamar Ridge cellar door)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: turnerstillhouse.com

27. Hillwood Whisky (Tamar Valley Distillery)

Hillwood Whisky is made at Tamar Valley Distillery on the banks of the Tamar River in Hillwood, where Paul Herron and his triplet sons founded the distillery in 2018, with Paul’s brother Brendon hand-coopering all casks on site. Every expression is a micro-release from a single small cask, with water drawn from a local glacial spring and barley milled on site in a hidden valley with no shops and no interruptions.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: North / Hillwood, Tamar River (20 minutes from Launceston)
• Founded: 2018 by Paul Herron and family (Daniel, Joel and Oliver Herron)
• Flagship: Single Cask Single Malt (Bourbon Cask, Port Cask); micro-releases of 30-40 bottles per cask
• Cellar door: Yes
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: hillwoodwhisky.com.au

28. Bogan Road Distillery

Bogan Road Distillery was established in 2016 by Karin and Shane at a property nestled at the base of Quamby Bluff in Quamby Brook, with ‘Bennie’ the 1,600-litre copper pot still producing single malt whisky in the forested foothills of the Great Western Tiers. The distillery also bottles single cask expressions under the Tasmanian Whisky Selectors label and welcomes visitors by appointment.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: North / Quamby Brook (Great Western Tiers foothills, near Deloraine)
• Address: 711 Bogan Rd, Quamby Brook TAS 7304, Australia
• Founded: 2016 by Karin and Shane
• Flagship: Single Malt; Tasmanian Whisky Selectors single cask bottlings
• Cellar door: By appointment (gate-open policy when on site)
• Tours and tastings: By appointment
• Website: boganroaddistillery.com

29. Western Tiers Distillery

Western Tiers Distillery was founded in 2021 by engineer friends Mark Kolodziej and Tim Freeman in the historic village of Westbury, drawing on Irish tradition to produce a triple-distilled single malt and Tasmania’s first commercial poitin. The founders are also the principals of Stillsmiths Tasmania, a bespoke copper still-making business that has supplied equipment to several Tasmanian distilleries including Callington Mill and Adams.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: North / Westbury (Great Western Tiers foothills)
• Address: 67 Meander Valley Rd, Westbury TAS 7303, Australia
• Founded: 2021 by Mark Kolodziej and Tim Freeman
• Flagship: Triple-Distilled Single Malt (Irish tradition), Poitin (Tasmania’s first)
• Cellar door: Yes (main street Westbury)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: westerntiersdistillery.com.au

30. Taylor & Smith Distilling Co.

Taylor & Smith Distilling was founded in 2017 by Natalie Smith and Ben Taylor from a converted shed in Moonah, where Ben hand-built the 400-litre direct-fired copper pot still and mills all Tasmanian malted barley on site before fermenting and distilling. Every release is single malt, single cask and matured in a diverse range of re-coopered Tasmanian casks.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South / Moonah, Hobart
• Founded: 2017 by Natalie Smith and Ben Taylor; first barrel filled March 2018
• Flagship: Single Malt Single Cask (various ex-apera, tawny, PX, bourbon, pinot noir casks)
• Cellar door: Yes (Salamanca Market stall; on-site tastings)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: taylorandsmith.com.au

31. Section 44 Distillery

Section 44 Distillery in Cambridge was co-founded by Stephen Parry, Andrew Patten and Raj Charan Singh, its name derived from the Australian constitutional provision that disqualified Senator Parry from parliament when his father’s overseas birth was discovered. The distillery released debut single malt expressions in both French and American oak cask styles in early 2023.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South / Cambridge (Greater Hobart)
• Address: 4 Lamb Pl, Cambridge TAS 7170, Australia
• Founded: c. 2019-20; first whisky releases early 2023
• Flagship: Single Malt French Oak, Single Malt American Oak
• Cellar door: Yes (Cambridge)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: section44.com.au

32. Dunalley Bay Distillery

Dunalley Bay Distillery was founded by Sandra Chu and Mark Wray on 20 acres of beachfront land at Dunalley on the Tasman Peninsula, producing artisan maritime single malt whisky and gin matured in American oak ex-bourbon barrels. The distillery’s single malt earned a silver award at the London Spirits Awards 2024 and a bronze at the Melbourne Royal Spirits Awards.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South / Dunalley, Tasman Peninsula
• Address: 11 Fulham Rd, Dunalley TAS 7177, Australia
• Founded: c. 2020-21 by Sandra Chu and Mark Wray
• Flagship: Dunalley Bay Maritime Single Malt (silver, London Spirits Awards 2024), Gin
• Cellar door: Yes (20-acre beachfront property)
• Tours and tastings: Yes (immersive tasting experience)
• Website: dunalleybay.com.au

33. Lower Marsh Distillery

Lower Marsh Distillery was established in 2021 by Steve Knight and Corey Hazelwood at their Apsley property in the Central Highlands, operating as a genuine paddock-to-bottle producer that plants, harvests, malts, ferments, distils and bottles entirely on farm. The whisky is aged in casks sourced from Tasmania’s Frogmore Creek Winery, adding local wine character to the maturation.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Central Highlands / Apsley
• Address: 644 Lower Marshes Rd, Apsley TAS 7030, Australia
• Founded: 2021 by Steve Knight and Corey Hazelwood
• Flagship: Paddock-to-Bottle Single Malt (ex-Frogmore Creek wine casks)
• Cellar door: Yes (Thursday to Saturday, 11am-4pm)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: lowermarshdistillery.com

34. King Island Distillery

King Island Distillery was founded in 2014 by Heidi Weitjens on King Island in Bass Strait, and at 40 degrees south it is described as Tasmania’s northernmost offshore island distillery. Heidi hand-distils in micro-batches of just 30 bottles per run using a pair of custom 55-litre copper pot stills handcrafted in Hobart, producing Tawny-cask single malt whisky alongside gin and vodka.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Islands / Currie, King Island
• Founded: 2014 by Heidi Weitjens
• Flagship: Distiller Choice Single Malt Tawny Cask; gin, vodka, liqueurs
• Cellar door: Yes (Currie)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: kingislanddistillery.com

35. Battery Point Distillery

Battery Point Distillery was founded in 2018 by Lloyd and Jan Clark from a small stone building in Hobart’s historic Battery Point neighbourhood, with Jack Lark (son of Bill Lark) as founding head distiller. The whisky is painstakingly double-distilled in small quantities from 100% Tasmanian malt and aged in a curated collection of vintage Spanish sherry, tawny, brandy and bourbon casks.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South / Battery Point, Hobart (historic precinct)
• Address: 20 Runnymede St, Battery Point TAS 7004, Australia
• Founded: 2018 by Lloyd and Jan Clark
• Flagship: Triple Cask Single Malt, Islay Cask Single Malt; single cask limited releases
• Cellar door: Yes (historic stone building, Battery Point)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: batterypointdistillery.com

36. Hunter Island Whisky

Hunter Island Whisky was founded in 2020 by Damien Mackey in Newtown near Hobart, inspired by traditional Irish single pot still whisky and using a distinctive mash bill of malt, unmalted barley and oats triple-distilled in copper pot stills. The debut casks were released in March 2023 and the Triple Bourbon expression won Gold at the Fifty Best World Whiskey awards in 2024.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South / Newtown, Hobart
• Founded: 2020 by Damien Mackey; first release March 2023
• Flagship: Triple Bourbon (Irish-style pot still, won Gold at Fifty Best World Whiskey 2024), single cask releases
• Cellar door: No formal cellar door
• Tours and tastings: No (production-focused operation)
• Website: hunterislandwhisky.com.au

37. Sandy Gray Whisky Company

Sandy Gray Whisky Company was founded in 2016 at Spreyton on the Cradle Coast by friends Neil Gray and Bob Connor, named in honour of Neil’s late Scottish physician father, Alexander James (Sandy) Gray. The micro-distillery produces small-batch single malt whisky and botanical gin from premium Tasmanian barley and Central Highlands water, prioritising quality over volume.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Cradle Coast (Northwest) / Spreyton
• Founded: 2016 by Neil Gray and Bob Connor
• Flagship: Small-batch Single Malt; Botanical Gin
• Cellar door: Yes (Spreyton)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: sandygraywhisky.com.au

38. Hunnington Distillery

Hunnington Distillery was established in 2017 by David Hunn at Kettering, south of Hobart, on a property overlooking Trial Bay and Deadman’s Point in the Huon Channel. The distillery produces a triple-distilled single malt whisky, with Bill Lark personally providing tasting notes and feedback for every release.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South / Kettering (Huon Channel, south of Hobart)
• Address: 3047 Channel Hwy, Kettering TAS 7155, Australia
• Founded: 2017 by David Hunn
• Flagship: Hunnington Triple Distilled Whisky, Deadman’s Point Spirits range
• Cellar door: Yes (overlooking Trial Bay and Deadman’s Point)
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: hunningtondistillery.com.au

39. Alchymia Distillery

Alchymia Distillery opened its tasting room and production facility at Table Cape near Wynyard in January 2022, offering panoramic views over Bass Strait from a clifftop property on Tasmania’s northwest coast. The distillery produces small-batch single malt whisky, gin and vodka entirely on site, from grist to bottle, in a family operation led by owner and head distiller Matt.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Cradle Coast (Northwest) / Table Cape, Wynyard
• Address: 599 Tollymore Rd, Table Cape TAS 7325, Australia
• Founded: Tasting room opened January 2022 (initial spirit distilled in South Australia 2017, then moved to Tasmania to complete maturation)
• Flagship: Alchymia Single Malt (single barrel), Gin, Vodka
• Cellar door: Yes (Friday to Sunday, 12-4pm; clifftop views over the sea)
• Tours and tastings: Yes (behind-the-scenes tours with head distiller Matt)
• Website: alchymiadistillery.com

40. Edge of the World Distillery

Edge of the World Distillery was established in 2019 at Arthur River on the remote northwest coast of Tasmania, where Roaring Forties winds blow directly from Patagonia and deliver sea mist and pure rainwater that envelop the maturing barrels in a dunnage-style ageing room. The family-run operation hand-mills, mashes, ferments and double-distils all whisky in a copper pot still with single small-cask releases.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: Northwest / Arthur River (far northwest, west coast)
• Address: Arthur River TAS 7330, Australia
• Founded: 2019
• Flagship: Single Malt Pinot Noir Barrel (5+ years), Single Malt Apera Cask; Wild Mist Gin
• Cellar door: Yes (by appointment)
• Tours and tastings: By appointment
• Website: edgeoftheworlddistillery.com.au

41. Metcalf Distilleries

Metcalf Distilleries is a family-run operation in Molesworth in the Derwent Valley producing single malt whisky and botanical gins exclusively from Tasmanian produce, including the distinctive WyreCoille Single Malt made with organically grown Launceston blueberries. The distillery has been nominated for Worldwide Whisky Producer of the Year at international spirits awards.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South / Molesworth, Derwent Valley
• Address: 211 Wyre Forest Rd, Molesworth TAS 7140, Australia
• Founded: Established (over 30+ years per own claims, exact year unclear)
• Flagship: WyreCoille Single Malt (made with organic blueberries), Sloe Gin, Botanical Gins
• Cellar door: Yes
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: metcalfdistilleries.com

42. Drifters End Distilling Company

Drifters End Distilling Company was founded in 2019 by sisters Sam and Chris Jones at Cambridge and released its first single malt whiskies in 2024, aged in a range of ex-wine casks including pinot, shiraz french oak and chardonnay. The 600-litre still was one of the last made by Tasmanian boilermaker Peter Bailey, giving it particular local provenance.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South / Cambridge (5 minutes from Hobart Airport)
• Address: 4 Cessna Wy, Cambridge TAS 7170, Australia
• Founded: 2019 by sisters Sam and Chris Jones; first whisky released 2024
• Flagship: Single Malt (Pinot, Shiraz, Chardonnay, Bourbon cask finishes)
• Cellar door: Yes
• Tours and tastings: Yes
• Website: driftersenddistilling.com.au

43. Greenbanks Tasmanian Whisky Co.

Greenbanks Tasmanian Whisky Co. is Tasmania’s largest capacity whisky distillery, commencing production in late 2023 from a facility in Bridgewater with three million litres per year capacity and ATO-licensed bonded warehousing. The business operates primarily as a contract distiller, enabling whisky brands without production facilities to make Tasmanian single malt, while also developing its own labelled expressions.

• Status: OPEN
• Region: South / Bridgewater/Brighton (25-30 minutes from Hobart)
• Address: 25 Greenbanks Rd, Bridgewater TAS 7030, Australia
• Founded: Late 2023 (production commenced) by Hugh Roxburgh
• Flagship: Own label in development; primarily contract distilling for other brands
• Cellar door: No (production/wholesale focus)
• Tours and tastings: No
• Website: greenbankstasmanianwhisky.co

History and Rise of Tasmanian Whisky

Tasmanian whisky almost didn’t happen. For most of the 20th century it was effectively illegal. The 1839 Distillation Prohibition Act and the 1901 Distillation Act between them allowed only large industrial stills, which put whisky out of reach of anyone working at a craft scale. Convict-era rum had been the island’s first spirit currency and small stills ran quietly for generations, but legitimate small-batch distilling was dead on the books for the better part of a century.

Then one man changed the law. In the early 1990s Bill Lark, a Hobart-born fly fisherman, looked at Tasmania’s highland water, clean air, cool climate and local barley and saw Scotland. He spent years lobbying the state government and in 1992 got both Acts amended, opening LARK Distillery that same year, the first legal small-scale distillery in Tasmania since 1882. The first commercial single malt followed in 1998. When our team sat down with Bill (pictured), what stood out was how deliberately he set out to build an industry, not just a brand. Almost every distillery on this list traces back to that one amendment.

The slow build, 1989 to 2013. Growth was gradual at first. Cradle Mountain Whisky (origins near Ulverstone in 1989), Sullivans Cove (1994 at Hobart’s docklands, later moved to Cambridge under new owners) and Hellyers Road (1997 in Burnie, started by dairy-farming families) trickled in over the following decade, alongside Casey Overeem’s Old Hobart Distillery.

The moment everything changed: 2014. Sullivans Cove’s French Oak single cask HH525 was named World’s Best Single Malt at the World Whiskies Awards, the first whisky from outside Scotland or Japan to take the title. The result rippled through every serious whisky market on earth, and Tasmania turned almost overnight into a pilgrimage for collectors and trade buyers who had only ever looked north.

Explosive growth, 2014 to now. By the early 2020s the island had more than 40 working distilleries, from one-person farm operations like Belgrove (rye, biodiesel-powered, Kempton) and appointment-only Bogan Road in the Great Western Tiers, to polished heritage destinations like Callington Mill in the restored 1837 Oatlands windmill and Launceston Distillery inside historic Hangar 17. The money followed: LARK Distilling Co. listed on the ASX and bought up the former Nant Estate at Bothwell and Shene Estate at Pontville (a AU$40 million deal in 2022), leaving it more than two million litres under maturation at peak. Sullivans Cove put AU$14 million into doubling capacity in late 2024 for its 30th birthday.

Where it stands today. The newest arrivals cover every scale: family contract distiller Greenbanks opened in Bridgewater in late 2023 with three million litres of annual capacity; Western Tiers and Lower Marsh (both 2021) chase traditional, paddock-to-bottle whisky; and the map has pushed offshore to Furneaux on Flinders Island and King Island Distillery out in Bass Strait. At the 2025 World Whiskies Awards, Tasmania took 14 category awards including eight Country and Category Winners, and nine local distilleries poured at the Hong Kong International Wine and Spirits Fair that October. The Tasmanian Whisky and Spirits Trail now lists 65 registered producer-members. Pure highland water, a cool maritime climate, local barley and a genuinely collaborative culture, all descended from Bill Lark’s advocacy, have made Tasmania one of the most compelling whisky regions in the world.

Closed Distilleries, Consolidation and the LARK Group

Not every name has survived. The biggest casualty is Nant Distillery at Bothwell, once one of the island’s marquee labels, which went into receivership in March 2017 after a fraud investigation into a barrel-investment scheme that left investors an estimated AU$10 to 20 million out of pocket. The site itself didn’t die, though. The Ramsay family revived it as Clyde Mill Distillery, which is how a lot of Tasmanian closures go: a change of hands rather than a last drop.

The other big force is consolidation. Most of it sits under LARK Distilling Co., the ASX-listed group grown out of Bill Lark’s original distillery. It picked up the Overeem brand in 2014 (returned to the founding Overeem and Sawford family in 2020), absorbed the old Nant operation at Bothwell, and bought Shene Estate at Pontville for AU$40 million in 2022, now running as LARK Pontville with the Poltergeist and Forty Spotted gin brands under the same roof. Knowing which labels sit inside the LARK group, and which are still proudly independent, is half of reading the modern Tasmanian whisky map.

Closed or changed hands

• Nant Distillery, Bothwell, was placed in receivership in 2017; the site now operates as Clyde Mill Distillery
• Andevo and Pagoda, with no verifiable current operations

Now part of the LARK Distilling Co. group

• Overeem, acquired in 2014 and returned to the founding family in 2020
• Nant, the former Bothwell operation
• Shene Estate, Pontville, now run as LARK Pontville Distillery
• Poltergeist gin
• Forty Spotted gin

Why This List Has 43 Distilleries, and the Trail Has 65

43 whisky distilleries, not 65. If you have seen the Tasmanian Whisky and Spirits Trail quote 65 registered members and wondered why we stop at 43, here is the difference. The Trail is a spirits body, not a whisky register: its count includes gin and vodka distilleries, fruit-spirit and brandy makers, independent bottlers and cellar-door-only venues. Our 43 are the distilleries actually making their own whisky on site, which is the list you want if you are planning a distillery run.

Who makes up the rest. The balance of the Trail is gin and vodka specialists like Forty Spotted (LARK group), Impression Bay and Darby Norris; brandy and fruit-spirit makers including Charles Reuben Estate, Hartzview and Willie Smith’s apple brandy; the rum-focused New Norfolk Distillery; and independent bottlers like Heartwood, Dark Valley and Whisky in Isolation, who mature and release casks bought from other distilleries rather than distil their own. Add them all in and you reach 65. They sit alongside the whisky houses here, not among them.

• Gin and vodka distillers
  • Forty Spotted, part of the LARK group
  • Impression Bay
  • Darby Norris, gin, vodka and rum
  • Knocklofty
• Brandy and fruit-spirit makers
  • Charles Reuben Estate, brandy, gin and eau de vie
  • Hartzview, fruit brandy and fortified wine
  • Willie Smith’s apple brandy
• Rum
  • New Norfolk Distillery
• Independent bottlers, who mature and bottle casks rather than distil their own spirit
  • Heartwood
  • Dark Valley
  • Whisky in Isolation

How Man of Many Chose the Best Tasmanian Whisky Distilleries

How we built this list. Our drinks desk has been covering Australian whisky for more than a decade, and we did it the unglamorous way: by checking every distillery against its own website and current Google Business listing to confirm it is actually making whisky and open to the public. We left out independent bottlers, gin-only producers and anything that has closed, and we leaned towards distilleries with a cellar door so you can taste the spirit where it is made. Founding year, region, flagship releases and cellar-door details were all verified at the time of this update. You can review our editorial policy here.

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