A WODONGA couple with a solid track record in hospitality have been shaking things up amid the coronavirus pandemic - literally!
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Nick and Connie Bond launched a line of handcrafted cocktails for home delivery during April after their new business venture Nomad Events was put on ice by the COVID-19 crisis.
Mr Bond said the cocktail delivery service had proved popular throughout the lockdown and later when restrictions eased to allow small gatherings in homes.
He said they delivered on average 150 bottles a weekend on the Victorian side of the border, where they held a liquor licence.
"We offer an Isolation Six-Pack, which has been a bit of fun for people," he said.
"The deliveries were especially popular when people were first allowed to have five people over to their homes."
Mr Bond said the bottled cocktails - featuring the likes of Triple G, Pineapple Express and Ruby Tuesday - came with glasses, garnishes and instructions.
"Not everyone has everything you need to make cocktails at home," Mr Bond said.
"You take our product and all you have to do is pour it over ice."
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Ms Angove said new customers had flocked to the farmers' markets throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Having successfully run popular Wodonga eatery Hollywood's for a decade from 2006, Mr and Mrs Bond said they had wanted to start a hospitality side-hustle that worked around their day jobs and two young children.
"Hollywood's was in Connie's family for 20 years," he said.
"I went in there for a job and I left with a wife!"
Nomad Events has done collaborative in-house dinners and takeaway offerings with Wodonga fine dining restaurant Miss Amelie and Andiamo Street Food.
It will soon offer a 2017 Beechworth chardonnay and 2018 Rutherglen shiraz under their brand.
Mr Bond said once COVID-19 restrictions eased enough to allow them to focus on their events business, they would wind back the home deliveries.
"We like to say the delivery service will be here for a good time, not a long time!" Mr Bond said.
Nomad reveals its handcrafted cocktails on its website on Wednesdays with deliveries on Friday and Saturday nights.
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