Olveston House & Dunedin Craft Distillers (Gin)

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Olveston was built for Dunedin businessman, collector and philanthropist David Theomin, his wife Marie and their two children Edward and Dorothy. Designed by acclaimed English architect Sir Ernest George, Olveston was built as a family home furnished with fine art, furniture and artefacts purchased from all around the world. Opened as a historic house museum in 1967, Olveston is a time capsule as little has changed inside the house since it was occupied as a family home between 1906 to 1966. Olveston is an authentic and original historic home depicting the life of a wealthy merchant family in the early part of the twentieth century.

Dunedin Craft Distillers is the first distillery in Aotearoa and one of only a handful worldwide, to produce botanical spirits from surplus bakery products that would otherwise go to landfill. with a rant over coffee between friends about the thousands of tonnes of bakery products ending up in landfill across New Zealand each year. The question arose, ‘Could we make alcohol from bread?’. Jenny McDonald and Sue Stockwellare the team behindDunedin Craft Distillers.

Highlights:

• Olveston House*

• Dunedin Craft Distillers*

• Baldwin Street – recognised by Guinness World Records, as The World’s Steepest Street.

• Signal Hill Lookout

• Dunedin Railway Station

Duration:

• 6 hours