Woowarra and Daylesford Cider combine complementary expertise to create a pommeau that celebrates orchard provenance and small-batch technique. Daylesford's organically tended heritage cider varieties are pressed and fermented into a layered cider that Woowarra distils to a refined apple eau de vie. The eau de vie fortifies freshly pressed new-season juice, and the blend is matured in a single family's private reserve of rare 1930s English oak casks — a near-century of oxidative memory that shapes this pommeau's most distinctive notes.
The pommeau is polished copper in the glass, with a bright gold rim. The nose offers orchard perfume — dried fruits and baked apple, quietly resinous. On the palate, honeyed sweetness meets toasted oak spice, caramelised stone fruit and a whisper of toffee, framed by gentle tannin and a clean, poised finish. The old tawny oak leaves its signature in a late note of fig and bitter orange rind, never at the expense of the fruit, which stays front and center throughout.
How To Serve
Classic
Cellar-cool, straight up, or over ice in your
fancy glassware. Kick-starts the palate
without wearing it out.
The Vertical
60ml Pommeau over ice in a wine glass.
Top with Daylesford Brut Cider, then finish
with a thin apple slice.
On The Board
It loves fat and salt. Slice up some
some Long Paddock Bluestone,
lay out a charcuterie board,
and misbehave.
Volume: 700ml & 200ml
ABV: 21.7%
Sugar content: 79.9g/L
Grown & Fermented: Daylesford Cider
Distilled & Matured: Woowarra Spirits
Base Spirit: 2023 Cider Eau-de-Vie
Fortified Juice: 2024 Apple Must
Cask Type: English Oak, Ex-Tawny (South Australian, 1930s)
From the gardens and bush of Castlemaine comes a spirit shaped by the seasons. It opens with a delicate wash of herbs, blossoms, and citrus, staying remarkably soft on the aniseed intensity. As it settles in the glass, a landscape of detail appears — crisp pear and melon skin, lifted by hints of rose water and sugar almond.
An unhurried spirit made for unhurried afternoons.
Every bottle is hand filled and labelled by the maker. Rest assured the labels are never millimeter perfect - if they are, its an accident.
Product Specifications
Volume: 700ml (200ml available September)
ABV: 40%
Origin: Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
Botanicals: 30+, gathered through the seasons around Castlemaine — native mints, wild thyme, and garden sage among them. The rest are waiting in the glass for you.
How to Serve
Classic
There's beauty in simplicity. Traditionally 30ml is served neat, with water & ice on the side to be added to taste. (90ml water & large ice blocks should land you in the Goldilocks zone).
Woowarra & Soda
For something brighter, pour 30ml over ice, top with soda & finish with a sprig of fresh herb — mint, rosemary or tarragon all sing.
Woowarra Sour
30ml Woowarra Pastis
15ml Amaretto
15ml Lemon Juice
Egg white or Aquafaba
Fill shaker with ice & ingredients. Shake hard over ice, strain into a chilled glass & let the afternoon slow down.
Rooted in Castlemaine: Crafted from the land...
Built in Castlemaine, where the pace is its own person and weathered hands are welcome. Everything here starts with place — the soil, the seasons, the gardens, the bush. Spirits aren’t rushed into existence. They’re shaped by patience, discipline, and the kind of repetition that teaches you what matters and what’s for the critters.
Woowarra is led by Nathan Strathmore Malcolm, whose background runs through brandy, cider, gin, and whisky production. Before Woowarra, there was Forêt — years spent growing, harvesting, fermenting, distilling, then doing it all again. The work is quiet and deliberate, built on the belief that good spirits come from attention, not shortcuts. Gold medals have been won, but the garden doesn’t care.
Woowarra exists to make spirits with clarity and restraint — spirits that carry the character of where they’re made and the hands that made them. Each release is small, intentional, and built to stand on its own. Nothing is rushed to market. Nothing is made to fill a gap. If it doesn’t earn its place, it doesn’t land in a bottle.
Shaped by the rhythms of Central Victoria — long afternoons and the kind of stillness that lets you hear what the season is trying to tell you — every bottle is an expression of this place.
A pause worth taking.
Contact
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