Killara Distillery Competitors

For over 30 years, our team has built what is now one of Australia's most famous whisky distilleries, recently nominated as one of four distillers for the Worldwide Whisky Producer of the Year award.

New World Whisky Distillery are makers of the award-winning Starward whisky range. Melbourne born and bred. Starward was founded in 2007 by David Vitale who had a simple vision: to create a distinctly Australian whisky and offer it to the world with pride. The team bring together Australian barley and Australian red wine barrels to create a distinctly Australian range of whisky. Housed in Port Melbourne, 10 minutes from Melbourne's CBD, this urban distillery is as bold and unconventional as the spirit it produces and the city it calls home. A forward-thinking whisky for forward drinkers - Starward pushes the boundaries of what whisky can be. -- Best Craft Distiller Whisk(e)y in the World - San Francisco World Spirits Awards 2016 Best Single Malt (Australia) - World Whiskies Awards 2016, 2017 -- STARWARD Whisky 50 Bertie St, Port Melbourne starward.com.au

Hellyers Road 'Into the unknown' Founded in 1997 by a group of dairy farmer families from Burnie in Tasmania, whose bold belief that the wild and remote North-West Tasmania was the perfect environment to create globally award winning whisky, Hellyers Road began unconventionally - and this restless spirit still lives on today. The whisky distillery takes its name from the spirit of its location and origins. A physical ‘Hellyers Road’ once ran right through the middle of where the distillery now sits. A road surveyed in 1820 by one of the first Europeans to boldly explore and survey the rugged, remote North-West Tasmania - surveyor, cartographer & explorer, Henry Hellyer. The Hellyers Road dairy farmer founders shared a parallel restless spirit to the explorer’s quest to journey into the unknown. Beckoned by the awe of Tasmania’s North-West wilderness and knowing that the quality and taste of their milk was so impressive, the dairy farmers knew the climate and water of remote North-West Tasmania lent itself perfectly to a bold and wild single malt whisky. And as self-professed lovers of whisky themselves, they didn’t need to be convinced to venture without fear into the unknown. In just 25 short years, Hellyers Road has become the largest boutique distillery in Australia, exporting to over 25 countries worldwide. Take a journey #IntoTheUnknown #HellyersRoad