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Victoria’s distilling community is as diverse as the spirits they create - from family-run producers on the Mornington Peninsula, to city distillers in Melbourne, and bold new liqueur makers in the state’s NorthEast. Explore the full list below to discover the people behind your favourite bottles, learn their stories, and click through to visit their distilleries or websites.

Latest Stories
JournalBackwoods Distilling Co: The high country whisky built on evenings, weekends and Australian grain
Yackandandah is the kind of Victorian High Country town that earns its reputation quietly. Tucked into a valley and surrounded by farming land and towering gum trees, it’s a place that people discover once and come back to for the rest of their lives. Leigh and Bree, founders of Backwoods Distilling Co., chose to come back, and built a distillery that could only have come from this corner of Victoria.



