The Venakki Distillery is a Portuguese Company, created in 2012, by a small international team and big dreams of producing superior quality spirits and world class whisky.
We started producing unaged spirits like our “white whisky”, or moonshine as we like to call it, under our rebel label Moonshine Limited. In 2018 we launched our vodka, and gin, formulated especially for bartenders and mixology, under the Venakki Mixology Collection, which is our contribution to the cocktail revival, by means of delivering superior quality spirits and becoming more specialized and adapting to the demands of a cosmopolitan and sophisticated clientele.
We have since ventured into producing cask matured spirits - like our Moonshine Single Cask with 93 points in the Whisky Bible – and our flagship Venakki Whisky Woodwork, the first ever Portuguese Single Malt Whisky, with the first bottling released in 2020 as a single cask, cask strength awarded with the Liquid Gold Award by Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible.
In 2024, we have again received a staggering 96 points in the same publication for another expression under the Woodwork seal.
We have since continued unhurried exploring the characteristics of our terroir and privileged access to Rare Portuguese Casks to produce exciting Single Malt Whisky under our label Venakki Whisky Woodwork and Vintage Releases under our label Venakki Whisky The Portuguese.
Like all Venakki bottlings, we bottle our whisky in very small quantities, when it’s ready and never by age or any other constraints
