Vintage Cellars Catalogue - 01/04-12/05/2020 (Page 45)

vintage cellars" australia's fine wine specialist since na something of an explosion in australian craft gin gin is a unique spirit in that it can be distilled with almost any ingredient or botanical to add flavours distillers are cooking up hundreds of different inventive gins that seemingly use every ingredient and one-off gins full of the weird and wonderful an australian gin style has emerged that showcases local twist through the use of native ingredients these local botanicals generally create flavoursome and distinctive gins that radiate with aromas difference between local and the often more understated flavour profile of classically styled international gins there are handful of local botanicals in tasmanian pepperberry adds a ground spice note which - with the pepper berry and lemon myrtle - underpin many of the local gin offerings with so many craft distilleries opening around australia right now there is so much innovation happening behn payten the finalists fronn orgach ink antipodes pink gin ber fertified organic spirit dry gin tal gin les dist lehet dasher+fisher ocean gin towace to the mountains meadow s of tasv adelaide hills distillery antipodes certified organic pink gin southern wild distillery dasher & fisher ocean gin husk distillers ink gin blend of 12 botanicals are heated at a gentle temperature to ensure only the purest alcohol vapours delicate flavours and aromas are superior gin meet australia's first certified kakadu plum to give it a citrus grapefruit and pepperberry to add another layer of complexity originating from the snowmelt of cradle mountain and delivered via the dasher and fisher rivers botanicals here include wakame seaweed from the tasman sea rose petal with nori and jasmine ink gin impressed our judges mixed with tonic water it turns purple; mixed with soda water and citrusy aromas and flavours juniper is dominant but balanced by a second tier of local botanicals vintagecellars.com.au