Exciting booze deliveries to order from across Victoria

What they make: Whisky, gin, vodka… the lot

South Gippsland is one of our favourite underrated holiday destinations in Victoria for many reasons – but one clear reason is Loch Brewery and Distillery. Here, among the cute cafés and provedores of the town of Loch, is a brewery that’s churning out traditional beers, gin, vodka and single malt whisky at its cellar door. Now, everything Loch brewery makes can be purchased online via its online store.

What they make: Wine

It’s hard to imagine the Bellarine Peninsula's wine industry without Scotchmans Hill, as the vineyard is one of the biggest and oldest on the peninsula (it was established in 1982). What started as a single stainless-steel tank and five barrels has grown into an operation spanning 1000 barrels, 600 tonnes of fruit and an 8000-cubic-metre barrel hall. The drop to collect? It’s gotta be the pinot noir, which has won multiple awards.

What they make: Beer

Bodriggy is like a beer-fuelled playground for grown-ups. This brewery/beer hall that sits on Johnston Street in trendy Abbotsford offers not only great frothies but also a considered cocktail menu and food that channels Central and South America when its doors are open to the public. For now, we can enjoy our favourite beers at home, like the Cosmic NEIPA. It’s mango flavoured but balanced by the bitterness of hops. Along with the core range, limited releases are also on offer online.

What they make: Whisky

It's one of Melbourne's favourite holiday destinations, but the Great Ocean Road is more than just great beaches and fish and chips. There's even a top-notch whisky distillery that you can visit (or, in the meantime, put in your booze cart at home). The Port Expression whisky has notes of oak, caramel, butterscotch and dark chocolate and a little extra alcohol at 44 per cent. 

What they make: Cocktails

There should be another word for what Byrdi is doing. Bar doesn’t quite cut it, despite the fact that dispensing booze is at the core of what this CBD cocktail bar does. Instead, there’s a heavy focus on in-house fermentation and seasonality, it's more like some kind of lab where you get to play guinea pig to their scientist. There’s nothing quite like it in Melbourne and that’s in huge thanks to co-owner Luke Whearty who cut his cocktail teeth at Richmond’s old molecular mixology bar Der Raum (RIP). Want to experience Byrdi right now? Thankfully the bar has bottled its cocktails to be delivered to your doorstep. 

What they make: Wine

This Grampians vineyard not only produces some of the country’s best shiraz, but it’s also one of the most picturesque wineries in the state. When you visit Langi, you’ll be in awe of the rows and rows of vines that were originally planted in 1870, but also dumbstruck by the view of the craggy cliffs of the Great Dividing Range in the distance. While you can’t hop in the car and enjoy a picnic out near the cellar door right now, you can enjoy the wines at home (our pick is the Billi Billi 2017 shiraz).

What they make: Gin

Patient Wolf successfully crossed the Yarra in 2019, moving from its Brunswick warehouse to a slick new space in Southbank that functions as both a distillery and a bar. The extensive cocktail menu at the bar is really designed to highlight the gins, so much so that if you fall in love with one of the distillates, you can also purchase it at retail price there to take home. Luckily, they also have an online store to do just the same.