About us & Our History
Mr Peter’s Passion
In Wellington, New Zealand New Zealand, while I was running my bakery n café, my early age passion reemerged as I and my friends always went out to try the different taste of whiskey that each bar and restaurant has on the shelve. After many trials and error (drunk time), what dawn on me the most was nothing but The Straight Whiskey, a sip of it in my mouth, jiggled it a bit and swallowing ignited my passion even more. A distiller dream was carrying on to foreign land from New Zealand then Australia where I was lucky to meet Zolton Marton one of my return client/friend and regular customers to my bakery n café, there!! We had some nice and long hour chatting about whiskey, and kaboom!!! Zolton Marton owns a whiskey distillery that was when I felt with relieve” here’s come the grand master”. With Zolton Marton, I learned and practiced distilling whiskey and no doubt with tone of experiences, I gained a lot from him and thank to him, I can now distill whiskey in my home country and make my distiller dream come true, Holly Creek whiskey is not just the first straight whiskey that is being distilled in Cambodia but it is the result of commitment and effort along with passion that make every single drops a meaning Holly Creek Whiskey in which you can enjoy and be proud in any moment.
Mr. Set Kim was born in the Chi Kraeng district on May 5, 1977, in Siem Reap Province, into a farming family. His family traditionally had a rice wine distillation business that started from his mother’s generation and continued with his eldest sister. Kim began learning the art of rice wine distillation from his elder sister when he was just 13 years old. However, he stopped this profession around 1995.
In 2016, he met and became acquainted with Mr. Sok Paek, also known as PETTER, a whisky distiller of Cambodian-Australian nationality based in Australia. Mr. Petter had a strong desire to pass down his knowledge to the younger Cambodian generation.
By the end of 2018, the two of them had discovered a formula that could be used to produce whisky in Cambodia — despite the country’s hot and humid climate, which is not favorable for whisky production and consists of only two seasons: dry and wet.
In early 2021, the Cambodian and South Korean governments, through the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology, and Innovation, officially recognized the Cambodia and Korea Task initiative. The two men received training and shared mutual experiences with South Korean experts. Later, they developed a new formula that allowed them to reduce the need for imported raw materials. This led to the creation of RAMA WODKA and RAMA WHISKY, which are made from local raw materials.