THE STORY OF

Lychee Divine

We are passionate about keeping Australian lychees on the table all year round. This brought us to start value-adding our lychees in 2010, taking awards from the start. We are the only commercial manufacturer of lychees in Australia producing awarding winning Liqueurs, Wines, Cider, Balsamic Vinegars, Sauces and now our fantastic Lychee Ice-cream range made by a gourmet ice cream producer on the Sunshine Coast.

The trading name “Lychee Divine” was developed from exhibiting at numerous shows in Queensland and New South Wales.

Lychees are a difficult fruit to value add to, as before you start they have to be peeled and deseeded. Our first Lychee liqueur was produced in 2010 from 800kg of hand peeled lychees. From that we made 900 bottles of Lychee Liqueur, these were sold in just 6 weeks. We knew then we needed to investigate how we could do this without so much labour by our following lychee season. We were able to modify a prototype machine to do this in a small way, but using one person instead of 6.

We bottled our first Sparkling Lychee Wine in 2016 and has been an outstanding success. Being semi-sweet it lends itself to both palates. In 2017 we bottled a small run of a semi-sweet red and semi-sweet white. Both runs sold out at the end of 2017 very quickly and these have now become a highly sought after product from our range.

We have a retail outlet on the Bruce Highway, south of Maryborough named Lychee Divine that is our Satellite Cellar Door where we sell our full range and other local, Queensland and Australian products.