Photo: Andrew AshtonAfter years of uncertainty, the New Zealand Whisky Company has confirmed Oamaru will be the site of a planned $3 million distillery. In April last year, the Otago Daily Times reported the company had yet to decide whether to establish a distillery in Oamaru or Dunedin. This was after a December 2016 report in the ODT in which Whisky Company chief executive Troy Trewin reiterated plans going back more than four years to build a distillery, estimating the company had ``about four to five years' whisky left''. The company's general manager, Grant Finn, of Oamaru, said this week, he could not specify which of ``a number of sites'' the company was interested in, but ``certainly Oamaru''. The whisky company initially bought 450 barrels of whisky in October 2010, which originated from the former Wilsons distillery in Willowbank, Dunedin.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 22, 2018 16:06 UTC