Alembics NZ

11/11/2025

Gift card SALE!! From now right up until Christmas, our Alembics gift cards are 15% off.

You select the amount, and there's no minimum or maximum spend. Just use the code 'enjoy' at the check out and let your loved ones enjoy that little bit more! Cards are redeemable on everything in store, including stills, distillation kits, accessories and botanicals.

Our digital gift cards also make it easy for people to get together and chip in towards that big, special gift for someone - http://eepurl.com/jrAMRM

08/11/2025

Best Sunday morning unpacking sorting labelling cleaning for a fresh Monday start. Staff will be relieved!

07/11/2025

Two weeks of distilling, sharing techniques and tips, learning and being with a whole bunch of nerdy like-minded beings. That's my idea of a good day out! Thank you, Benoit from AlChemia solutions, all our people from The Alembics Lab, our Australian colleagues who came across, and every other person we touched along the way.

05/11/2025

You can now book private workshops in the Lab.

Our new booking system makes it easy—you can see all the available dates and book for groups up to 6 people at the touch of a button.

All abilities and skill-levels welcome, as this day is built around you. Spend the day making botanical perfume, artisan gin or natural skin care. Or design a day just for you. https://mailchi.mp/b48f480599e0/xx-argjp2iq14-10964163

30/10/2025

Tried combination hydrosols yet? Spring is the perfect time for this kind of mixed distilling. There's lush green growth and some other plants going to seed—why not use it all?

Find out about combination hydrosols and what we do with them - https://mailchi.mp/1afb58fe0bf9/stainless-10964058

26/10/2025

We use modern style stainless steel stills and traditional copper stills in our Yin Yang of distillation workshop. Honouring the plants and the process using the best tools and process. See our link tree.

25/10/2025

Great group, shared knowledge and experience, vibrant at our Yin Yang distillation workshop.

15/10/2025

Waiheke is bursting with lush spring plants, and we will show you how to use them...

Join The Alembic’s Lab’s head distiller and aroma consultant, Jill Mulvaney and medical herbalist and ayurvedic practitioner Nicole Bostock for this practical, five-week hands-on herbal workshop.

03/10/2025

New botanicals in stock at Alembics. Try the new whole cacao beans from Vanuatu. Fruit, caramel, and earthy notes pervade this intoxicating dark chocolaty cacao. Grind them yourself for fresh nibs whenever you need.

More info and recipes in our newsletter, including cacao and dandelion coffee, crimson cacao liqueur and a simple chocolate bitters - https://mailchi.mp/8e7ead89aefa/stainless-10963561

26/09/2025

Copper or stainless—which should I use? We put these two high-performing metals to the test in identical side-by-side distillations in our Yin & Yang of Distillation workshops (Auckland Oct 25/26 and Christchurch Nov 1/2).

If you've ever wondered how your distilling would change if you changed stills, then we can help you find out. More information and workshop dates in our newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/d27047110e8c/xx-argjp2iq14-10963297