The Myths, Legends and Stories about Deep South Distillery, our quirky Penguin logo and our amazing award winning craft spirits.
As one of my favourite cocktails at any time of day, and after having tasted a really good Bloody Mary cocktail made with a peppery vodka during London cocktail week, I was determined to make a great vodka that would make a delicious spicy Bloody Mary without all the fussy trimmings. In Deep South Chilli Vodka I think we have done that: hot, spicy, authentic chilli, and just amazing when blended with sumptuous, rich tomato juice. Yum!
When we kicked off the process of developing a craft distillery in Kommetjie, we wanted to pay tribute to the beautiful place in which we live. We were pretty sure that Deep South would be the name of the distillery, but we needed a logo. So we went global. For the brand development and logos, […]
Starting a craft distillery is not for the faint-hearted. While every country has it challenges, somehow the rafts of legislative frameworks and the long and slow application and approval processes to become a legal business in South Africa make it doubly so. It started with a dream and a vision of what the distillery […]
Deep South Distillery was started by Steve Erlank who settled in Kommetjie more than three decades before, when he and his wife fell in love with the relative remoteness, natural beauty and creative life style of the valley. Like many residents of the Deep South, he lived near the sea and the mountains, but spent […]
The Deep South is the name affectionately given, by the people who live there, to that part of the peninsula south of the Old Cape Road (Oukaapseweg) as far as Cape Point Nature Reserve. This beautiful area, with its fynbos-clad mountains stretching southwards in a jagged spine towards Cape Point, and bordered by white beaches […]
Well – it’s September 2017, and after nearly two years of thinking, planning, drinking and getting involved in a myriad of things that have nothing to do with making premium craft spirits, we are nearly at the starting line. Opening a craft distillery, at least on the scale we have set out to do, is […]
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