DSA was enormously proud to have been a finalist NZ Food Hero in the 2020 New Zealand Food Awards, created to acknowledge the efforts of the food and beverage industry…
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the virtual awards celebration on Friday 21st August, and congratulations to all of our winners! The full list of medal and trophy winners…
Distilled Spirits Aotearoa is very proud to have been nominated as a NZ Food Hero as part of the 2020 New Zealand Food Awards. The New Zealand Food Heroes campaign…
Check out this Podcast from Still It which features our very own DSA Secretary Soren Crabb. Soren (1919 Distillery) talks about some of the challenges of starting up a distillery…
See our Hand Sanitiser page on this website to find out which of your local Distilleries are now making hand sanitiser.
2020 New Zealand Spirits Judging and Awards Dinner Postponed Amid the uncertainties about COVID-19 and changing travel and event policies, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the judging…
New Zealand Gins have recently received great reviews from The Martini Whisperer in the Oct/Nov 2019 edition of the Australian Gourmet Traveller WINE Magazine. Phillip A. Jones is a big…
Distilled Spirits Aotearoa and the American Distilling Institute have become Affiliate Associations. This allows our members to receive a discount of US$100 from the standard judging registration fee for each…
Congratulations to the New Zealand winners at the 2019 International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) London: Dancing Sands, Indiginous, Juno, Koakoa, Scapegrace, Black Collar and Lighthouse. New Zealand continues to…
On May 10th 2019 New Zealand’s inaugural Spirits Awards was held at a gala evening at the national museum of Te Papa, Wellington. The event was the first of its…