Reefton Distilling seeks investment to boost whisky

Reefton Distilling Co. has announced a new investment opportunity as it seeks to raise up to NZD$2m for scaling its Moonlight Creek whisky production.

The share offer was first released to existing shareholders, who have pre-emptive rights to participate in this investment round. With $738,000 NZD already raised, the offer is now live to the public via investment platform Snowball.

The distillery has already received global recognition for its whiskies with Moonlight Creek Manuka Smoked Young Spirit  and Moonlight Creek New-Make Spirit each winning Gold and Category Winner at the 2025 World Whiskies Awards (ROW). It has assembled a panel of international experts to oversee and support the product development journey for Moonlight Creek.

“Whisky is inherently a long horizon product, and our business is ensuring appropriate investment levels until we have sufficient volumes of matured whisky ready for market,” says Founder and Chief executive Patsy Bass.

“We see growing our whisky stocks as the biggest growth catalyst for the business and believe that our continued investment into Reefton Distilling Co.’s whisky vault lays a path forward to deliver products for the global market, which in turn underpins the value of the business as a whole.”