Looking for a New Zealand distillery to make spirits for your brand? Geraldine Distillery — the maker of award-winning Humdinger gin — can craft a range for you: our own distilled gin, plus spiced rum and flavoured whisky. Put your label on a proven recipe, commission something bespoke, or partner with us to make and bottle your own product to sell.
Why Geraldine Distillery
We're not a label on someone else's liquid — we're a real, hands-on distillery in Geraldine, South Canterbury, the gateway to adventure.
Best known for our award-winning gin, with gold medals at the NZ Spirits Awards, Junipers and NZ Small Batch Gin Awards, we distil our gin in-house, craft spiced rum and flavoured whisky, and grow our own fruit at New Zealand's only sloe orchard.
Named Sustainable Distillery of the Year at the 2026 NZ Small Batch Gin Awards — provenance your brand can stand behind.
Behind every batch is a distillation run we measure from start to finish. We built Still Analytics Pro, our own still-monitoring system, to record the key parameters of each run as it happens — temperatures across the pot and column, how fast the distillate is collecting and at what strength, the energy going in, and the conditions in the room around the still.
For your brand, that means two things:
Repeatability. Every run is measured against a reference profile, with in-spec readings shaded green and any drift flagged early — so batch two tastes like batch one, and so does batch fifty.
Traceability. Each run is logged and can be laid side by side with past runs — a complete record of how your spirit was made, from heat-up through the hearts and tails cuts, including pressure-adjusted temperatures and the energy used per litre.
It feeds our sustainability work too: because we track energy per kilogram of spirit, we can keep tightening efficiency run after run.
On every distillation we track, in real time:
After the run, we can benchmark it against a reference batch:
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Existing recipe? Any order size — we simply relabel from stock, so there's no batch minimum.
For a bespoke recipe the minimum exists because a recipe has to be distilled as a full batch: 220 × 700ml in our own bottles, or around 1,000 × 700ml (one pallet) if you'd like a different stock bottle from Saverglass or similar.
If you're not sure which side of that line you fall on, just ask.
Around 3–4 weeks for a small labelling run of one of our existing recipes, about 2 months for a larger batch, or 6+ months for a fully bespoke recipe we develop with you. For pre-Christmas corporate orders, get in touch early.
Yes. We make and bottle spirits for other brands to sell. One of these has even won Gold at the 2024 London Spirits Competition.
Yes. We'll develop a bespoke spirit to your brief and make it to order, or you can start from one of our proven, medal-winning recipes.
Yes. Alongside the gin we distil in-house, we craft spiced rum and flavoured whisky — tell us what you have in mind and we'll let you know what's possible.
We monitor each distillation run in-house from start to finish — temperatures, collection rate and strength, energy use and other parameters — and measure every run against a reference profile, so drift is caught early and batches stay repeatable. Every run is logged, giving your brand a full, traceable record of how your spirit was made.
You can supply your own print-ready labels, or use our die lines designed for our bottle shapes. Need the artwork created? We can put you in touch with designers.
Yes. On a bespoke recipe, our house bottles and label shapes carry the lowest minimum (220 × 700ml); a different stock bottle from Saverglass or another supplier lifts it to around 1,000 × 700ml (one pallet).
For our existing recipes, we can work to any order size.
Yes — we deliver anywhere in New Zealand.
Tell us your brand, your idea and rough numbers, and we'll take it from there.
