Local rum snares award

St Mary’s Wines & Spirits do it again in the distilling industry awards

It was a project years in the making and following in the footsteps of St Mary’s Wine & Spirits award winning gin, the Mulligan’s Rum has now been added to the family distillery’s trophy cabinet. Aged two years in American oak, with smooth spirit with the classic characters of American oak as well as honey, fruit and vanilla, the Mulligan’s Aged Rum has just received the ‘ Best In Category ‘ for Column Still Rum Category at the American Distillers Institute Spirits Competition in the USA.

The latest accolade comes hot on the heels of three years of making their mark across a variety of industry based awards. They have received three awards, four gold medals, seven silver medals and well into double figures for bronze medals for their spirits since St Mary’s branched out adding the distillery to their winemaking operation in Penola.

Attendees to the Penola Coonawarra Arts Festival at the weekend had a front row seat to tasting the newly awarded Mulligan’s Aged Run and the rest of the spirit range from St Mary’s.

The first award for brothers Ian and Robin Mulligan, who started their journey into distilling spirits space in 2015, came for their inaugural gin at the 2020 GinNation Consumer Gin Awards when their London Dry Gin was judged best in Class as well as bringing home a Gold Award.

St Mary’s Vineyard was established in 1985 and is owned and operated by the Mulligan family. Every stage in the traditional process of making St Mary’s Wines and Spirits is carried out on the estate.

You can head to St Mary’s at Coonawarra for a tasting of their award winning spirits and their time honoured wines or catch up with Ian at the Farmers Market at Mount Gambier’s Cave Gardens every Saturday