Whisky business
Sep 29, 2021
3 minutes
The first time Desiree Reid-Whitaker tried whisky, she had to have her stomach pumped!
“I was 16 and had never really drunk before,” recalls Desiree. “Friends were going to a party, so we bought the cheapest thing we could find, which was a bottle of terrible whisky. I ended up being taken by ambulance to Timaru Hospital where they pumped my stomach.”
The irony that she went on to open The Cardrona Distillery isn’t lost on the 42-year-old. Even more ironically, Desiree isn’t from a family of drinkers: her mother is teetotal, her father rarely drinks
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