“I love gin,” says Jo. “It’s been a favourite drink of mine since I was a teenager and I’ve always loved to cook. So what we’re doing with Juno is like a recipe for happiness—we’re able to play with flavour and create a product that I genuinely love.” Experiments with flavour profiles and distilling techniques […]
The investigation found duty-free spirits, liqueurs in particular, were consistently cheaper, “but considering excise duty and Goods and Services Tax (GST) often add up to half the price of a bottle of vodka, gin or whiskey, it can be less of a bargain than a consumer might expect,” Chetwin added. On the day of Consumer […]
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Gin is made with the base of Pickering’s along with four additional Scottish botanicals – heather, Scots pine, bog myrtle and milk thistle. “Our partnership with The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo has opened opportunities in Australia and New Zealand and Asia is also in the offing. We hope our collectable half bottle will delight […]
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The tiniest of gin productions has captured the memory of a young chef at a top restaurant who died suddenly in Blenheim in March. Just ten 200ml bottles of The Foraging Chef exist. The gin was made from kawakawa berries gathered by 25-year-old Swiss chef Manuel Rabl just before he died. The berries were dried, batch distilled, mixed with other distilled items […]
The worldwide craft beer phenomenon has paved the way for craft spirits. With a boom in premium products overseas, from Japanese whiskies to British gins, trailblazing Kiwi distillers are taking inspiration from the land, forging alcohol with ingredients such as manuka and homegrown malted barley – creating a taste that is uniquely New Zealand. We explore some of the country’s best multi-award […]
Rogue Society, a highly regarded and versatile artisan dry gin coming out of New Zealand, has recently made it’s Australian debut, travelling across the ditch to bring the ever-growing domestic market something refreshingly classic yet modernised for contemporary trends. “It was about creating a gin from the bottom of the world that turns tradition upside […]
Dave and Jo James have three core business values: make it fun, make it together and make it right. The Taranaki couple are on the cusp of launching their line of boutique London-style gin, distilled in New Plymouth using ingredients grown and sourced in Taranaki and throughout New Zealand. Their “make it right” attitude comes from their experience working […]
The days of simply asking for a gin are over. The gin renaissance of the past several years has made the word almost as imprecise a generic term as wine, so stylistically varied has the category become. Opihr leads with piney, floral aromatics but the moment you put it in your mouth you’re transported to a backstreet bazaar […]
American distiller Ben Bonoma and his British wife Sarah are on a mission to make New Zealand famous around the world for its gin. They bought existing distillery equipment and now make around 200 bottles a day of Dancing Sands Vodka, Sacred Spring Dry Gin and barrel-aged gin. After launching to market early last year, the entrepreneurs are […]
“I love gin, a gin and tonic is one of the best drinks you could ever order, I think,” says Madeleine Tate from across the rosy-pink tiled bar at Kindred, a chic and breezy new eatery in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter. Tate is 27, softly spoken and quite different from the showy, waistcoat-wearing, Tom-Cruise-in-Cocktail bottle spinning mixologist […]
Canterbury-based gin producer Rogue Society is shaking up the premium liquor market. Co-founder Daniel McLaughlin weighs in on how important product design is in this competitive retail industry. Rogue Society Gin is a super-premium gin from the bottom of the world. We launched just under three years ago, after two years of development. We’ve always had a […]