Plans for southern whiskey distillery

Warren Preston, of the Bay of Plenty's Mills Reef winery, has lodged a resource consent application to build a $5 million boutique distillery on the banks of the Kawarau River, near Queenstown.

Barley would be sourced from throughout Otago and Southland to be distilled at the site before it is bottled, matured and distributed through his Oamaru restaurant.

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