The New Zealand spirit is forged through a unique marriage of culture and climate. It's an intangible phenomenon that produces tangible greatness and enables Kiwis to fearlessly punch above their weight on a global stage. And it's this spirit that inspires us to experiment with flavour to create world-class —but distinctively different— single malts.

Nestled in a warm, often misty valley, protected by the volcanic hills from which we source our pure spring water, Pōkeno is a hidden treasure of the remote and beautiful land - and a natural choice of location for our state-of-the-art distillery.

Everything Pōkeno do is driven by their goal to create one of the world's great single malts. Batch production, long fermentation and slow distillation are just a few of the things that help make them different. As craft distillers, they are also able to focus on quality over quantity, on doing things our way, not the easy way.

Pōkeno select only the finest casks to mature our precious spirit, and our warm sub-tropical local climate accelerates its maturation and flavour development. In Pōkeno, the angels do not wait.

All of this allows Pōkeno to produce single malt whisky with exceptional body and flavour; whisky that captures the pure spirit of Aotearoa New Zealand.

There is no compromise in anything Pōkeno do, and they would like to thank you for joining them on this journey of discovery, not just of their whisky, but of Aotearoa New Zealand.