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NZ travel: The best way to spend a day in Kāpiti Coast

nzherald.co.nz: 3/5/23 Melissa Nightingale takes a tour of the best spots in the seaside town of Paraparaumu on the ...

FORMER NURSE BECOMES CHIEF DISTILLER AT TOP INDEPENDENT DISTILLERY

"I came from an intense area of nursing and we had to have at least three backup plans in place every day. From day one at The Bond Store, I've applied the same approach to distilling".

The road from scalpels to spirits

“If someone had told me 20 years ago that I would be Chief Distiller in our family business, I wouldn't have believed them - but it’s one of the most fulfilling things I’ve done".

THE BOND STORE: RAISING SPIRITS IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE

Supermarket News: April 22 Kāpiti Coast distillery The Bond Store is no highbrow distillery - they’re innovative and...

Heritage roses put botanicals into Botanic Garden’s fundraising gin

Stuff.co.nz January 2023 It’s one thing to be led down the garden path, drinking it is a whole other experience. Down...

The Bond Store creates flora-infused gin for Wellington Botanic Garden

Inside FMCH, October 2022 Kiwi distillery The Bond Store has teamed up with Friends of the Wellington Botanic Garden ...

Hospo buy-in boosts bottle swap scheme

Kāpiti News: September 2022 Bottle swapping scheme by award-winning Paraparaumu-based distillery The Bond Store is e...

Kiwi gin released in rat trap box to help with wildlife conservation

Bec Kay says sustainability is at the core of their business, and says she came up with the idea to make a rat trap part of their packaging while enjoying a gin in her Raumati back yard and seeing a rat scamper across the lawn.

A 'fantastic' part of New Zealand to go exploring

Stuff Travel: December 2021 What's one place you'd take every visitor to in NZ and why? The top of the South Island,...

Vodka and coffee pair up in new tasty tripple

We discovered that there were no coffee vodka products in the market and wanted to fill this gap using Fair Trade Organic ingredients to create a quality product

When life gave this Paraparaumu couple lemons — they made an award-winning limoncello

A quick read  of the compliments taped to a wall at Koakoa’s Paraparaumu factory is a pick-me-up when Bec Kay, the company’s sole limoncello maker, needs it most.
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