Things to do in Mareeba and the Atherton Tablelands: visit Mt Uncle Distillery in Walkamin for guided tastings, cocktails and live music, about an hour from Cairns.

What agave spirit is, why the Australian version is not called tequila, and how blue agave is grown and pit roasted at Mt Uncle Distillery in Far North Queensland.

Ooray is the Queensland Davidson's plum, a tart crimson rainforest fruit native to Far North Queensland. What it is, how it tastes and how we distil with it.

Agave Australis is Australian agave spirit, grown and distilled at Mt Uncle Distillery in Walkamin on the Atherton Tablelands. This is how it started. Where it started Mark Watkins, our founder and distiller, saw a kinship between the volcanic country of the Atherton Tablelands and the agave country of Jalisco. He brought blue agave into Australia and planted it here. Agave Australis is what came of it: agave grown in Queensland volcanic soil, roasted, fermented and distilled