Vintage Cellars Catalogue - 02/02-05/04/2022 (Page 42)

the proof → not so secret ingredients at applewood those native australian ingredients have been a key focus since the very beginning and brendan describes this incredible natural asset as "an unfair advantage over other countries because a lot of the botanicals that do grow natively here lend themselves incredibly well to the herbaceous profile that you're resinous nature of juniper" → what comes next but there is another trend that has been even more pronounced in the emergence of a distinctive australian using native australian botanicals in his certified organic antipodes because we were sick of receiving all this gin these wonderful australian botanicals - let's send them back something exciting!" gum to create "an incredible musky flavour with intense lighter on juniper so it's really refreshing” the abundance of unique flavours in our own backyard has provided a secret weapon for many other local array of bold new combinations that have helped aussie gin become an internationally recognised category and while the pungent flavours of these botanicals that forms the backbone of gin means it's able to hold them together distillers are increasingly seeing gin as a vehicle to further explore both the flora and the connection that traditional custodians continue to have with this the transparency in how these ingredients are sourced and also encouraging customers to learn more about where they come from and with literally hundreds of ingredients still waiting that's exciting to me because we're still broadening the palate of flavours in australian gin." vintagecellars.com.au