William McHenry went out of his way, and everyone else’s way, to build McHenry Distillery at the end of a dirt road outside Port Arthur, Tasmania. It’s pretty far off the beaten track and right next to a national forest. Blink, and you miss it. It’s between two small towns, Port Arthur and Nubeena, at the very southern tip of Tasmania. If you’re not going there in particular, you’d probably never end up there. Unless you’re a fan of great Tasmanian whisky and gin. Then you might make a pilgrimage to see the amazing place. The perfect water flows out of Alison Springs, right there on the property. You’ll see wombats and wallabies and cockatoos and maybe even a Tasmanian Devil. And you’ll get to taste what some of the finest water on the planet can produce in the hands of a great distiller.
William McHenry talks about starting an inconvenient distillery and his love for Tasmanian crayfish.
