Hartshorn Sheep Whey Peat Smoked Vodka 500ml

Brand: Hartshorn Distillery

Release Name: Peat Smoked Sheep Whey Vodka

Spirit Style / Type: Peat-Smoked, Whey-Based Vodka

Composition: Distilled Sheep Whey, Infused with Tasmanian Peat Smoke (North West Coast Tasmania)

Age: Non-Vintage

Volume: 500ml Bottle

Alc / Vol (%): 40.0%

Country: Australia

Region: Birchs Bay, Southern Tasmania

Production Method: Peat Smoke Infused into Whey Fermentation, Further Vapour-Infused During Final Distillation; Unfiltered

Limited Edition: No (Hartshorn's Standing Peat Smoked Vodka Release — Though Produced in Genuinely Tiny Batches)

Award Winner: Not independently confirmed with a specific score for this exact expression — Hartshorn as a distillery has won World's Best Vodka and multiple Australian Best Vodka titles across its wider range

Hartshorn Distillery is a micro-distillery based in Birchs Bay, deep in southern Tasmania, run by head distiller Ryan Hartshorn alongside his family's Grandvewe Cheeses fromagerie. Widely regarded as one of the smallest distilleries in Australia, Hartshorn pioneered the world-first technique of distilling spirits from sheep whey, turning a cheesemaking byproduct into an award-dominating product line spanning vodka, gin and the rare, only-every-three-years "Whey-sky." Every bottle is hand painted and signed, reflecting the distillery's genuinely small-batch, paddock-to-bottle ethos and its remarkable, sustained run of Australian and international vodka awards.

This vodka exists because Ryan Hartshorn simply couldn't stop wondering why peat smoking — a technique central to Scotch whisky — had never been applied to other spirits. Rather than just imagining it, he sourced genuine peat from Tasmania's North West Coast, an area whose climate closely mirrors Scotland's west coast, then developed a two-stage smoking process: drying and igniting the peat to infuse smoke directly into the whey fermentation before distillation, then further vapour-infusing peat smoke during the final distilling stage for maximum depth of flavour. That genuinely world-first technique creates something reviewers describe as building in complexity the more you drink it, thanks to the spirit being physically disturbed with each sip — a level of technical thoughtfulness rarely seen in vodka production. Real customer feedback backs up the quality too, with one repeat buyer calling it "a rare flavour for a vodka" and reordering it multiple times as their favourite in the Hartshorn range. Hartshorn recommends it in an elegant, balanced dirty martini, or served over fresh oysters, salmon gravlax, or alongside a good cigar — genuinely food-and-occasion-matched rather than an all-purpose mixer. A truly unique, world-first spirit for adventurous drinkers and Hartshorn collectors chasing the full range.