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LISA H.
Distillery Manager
With a background in Asian luxury hospitality and management, Lisa brings operational discipline together with a refined understanding of service, a deep sensorial knowledge of spirits, and a practical command of mixology. Her work connects the daily management of the Distillery with the consistency, precision, and attention to detail expected of the House.
JAY VENAKKI
Founder & Master Artisan
Having lived across different countries and continents, Jay Venakki developed a cultivated appreciation for the pleasures of a discerning life - gastronomy, fine spirits, tobacco, fragrances, design, and craftsmanship - and, through them, a deeper understanding of provenance, cultural identity, and the distinctive ways in which each place shapes what is made there.
At the Distillery, that sensibility is expressed through distillation, wood management, blending, and his single governing standard: excellence.
VENAKKI DISTILLERY
The Pioneer of Portuguese Whisky
Established in 2012, the VENAKKI DISTILLERY is the home of Portuguese Whisky and fine-spirits programs built around technical precision, provenance, wood, time and an independent standard of making.
Its purpose is focused: to create characterful whisky and spirits in Portugal at deliberately limited scale, with exacting attention to raw ingredients, water, wood, time and terroir. A contemporary Distillery, but its values are deliberately old-fashioned - make things properly, allow them the time they require, and release nothing merely to satisfy a schedule.
A Portuguese Whisky Story
The Distillery’s first work began with unaged corn spirits under MOONSHINE LIMITED, its independent-minded label. Cask maturation followed, including Moonshine Single Cask, which received 93 points in Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible.
VENAKKI MIXOLOGY joined the portfolio in 2018 with gin and vodka designed around precision, structure and professional cocktail use. THE PORTUGUESE subsequently became the Distillery’s vintage small-batch Malt & Grain expression, bringing the disciplines of maturation and blending into one distinctly Portuguese composition.
The WOODWORK program later established the Distillery’s Portuguese Single Malt Whisky; its first bottle was released in 2020 as a single-cask, cask-strength whisky and received a Liquid Gold Award by Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible and the statement “A whisky that gives us all a reason to live”.
In 2024, another WOODWORK expression received an incredibly high 96 points in the same publication, reserved only for the finest whiskies in the world, or, as Jim describes it, “Superstar Whiskies that give us all a reason to live”.
Terroir, Water &
Portuguese Casks
Portugal offers the Distillery something unusually valuable: a mature wine culture and access to casks whose previous lives have shaped some of the world’s most distinctive wines and fortified wines. Port, Madeira, Douro, Muscatel and bespoke proprietary casks are not decorative finishing tools here; they are part of the Distillery’s language of maturation.
The pure limestone water from our own underground source, superior quality grains, precision in distillation, carefully selected casks, and extreme climate maturation, these are the backbone of our spirits. When it comes to maturation, we rely on our distillery location with hot days and cool nights and the configuration of our warehouses, that work together with the casks for promoting the mechanisms of casks to perform a maturation environment of uncommon intensity and identity.
