Small Batch Atlas · Hobart & Southern Tasmania
Cambridge Distilleries
The distilleries clustered on the flat at Cambridge, fifteen minutes from Hobart airport and the reason Tasmanian whisky became a category. The boundary is the industrial pocket itself. Brands that contract their spirit elsewhere and bottle it here were left out of the selection.
Drifters End Distilling Company
4 Cessna Wy, Cambridge TAS 7170, Australia
Wed–Sun 10am–4pm
Sisters Sam and Chris Jones run this Cambridge distillery with a travel-informed instinct — spirits drawn from where they've been, made for where they've landed. The Coffee Liqueur, built on beans from local roaster Tasman Coffee, leads with espresso and finishes on cacao. Single malt whisky, festive gins and liqueurs round out a range that earns its breadth.
Spring Bay Distillery - Cambridge Cellar Door
205 Kennedy Dr, Cambridge TAS 7170, Australia
Tue–Sat 10am–4pm
Fifteen minutes from Hobart and minutes from the airport, this is where Spring Bay's spirits are actually made — Tasmanian barley, coastal water, selected casks. Taste three gins for $15 or three whiskies for $20, take a distillery tour, or hand-fill your own bottle of the Muscat Cask Finish single malt through the Solera Experience.
Section 44 Distillery
4 Lamb Pl, Cambridge TAS 7170, Australia
The name comes from the High Court ruling that changed Australian political history — a fitting origin for a distillery that does things its own way. From 4 Lamb Place in Cambridge, Andrew Patten, Raj Charan Singh and Stephen Parry produce three gins (Hobart Dry, Lemon Myrtle, Masala) and a Preamble Series whisky aged in American and French oak. Small batches, no shortcuts.
Sullivans Cove Distillery
1/10 Lamb Pl, Cambridge TAS 7170, Australia
Mon–Sun 10am–4:30pm
Three times named the world's best whisky — in 2014, 2018 and 2019 — this Hobart distillery makes single malt, single cask expressions where no two batches are identical. The slow, sensory-led process is the point: each cask is monitored until it peaks, then bottled. The result put Tasmania on the global whisky map and kept it there.