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In its 24 years the distillery was sold 4 times, the 3rd after the business failed. They went on to win the best single malt in the world - the first outside Scotland, Ireland and Japan. Grew from 4 FTE to 23 (Patrick Maguire)
In this episode, I interview Patrick Maguire, the Master Distiller for Sullivans Cove Distillery in Hobart, Tasmania, and the Chairman of the Tasmanian Whisky Producers Association in 2012. Sullivans Cove was one of the first craft distilleries of commercial scale in Australia founded in 1996, sold in 1999, and went into liquidation in 2003 when Patrick and a few investors salvaged it. Closing the cellar door in Central Hobart and moving the distillery twenty minutes out of town into an industrial park, they invested heavily in production with a big focus on quality spirit and then marketing…
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