We have moved to beautiful Mangapai in Northland and have started producing in our new Distillery (ok Shed) so have mixed things up a bit by using filtered rain water for fermenting the barley, then Antipodes Water for the Gin run.

We undertake the entire fermenting and distilling process beginning with sourcing the Barley from Gladfield Malt in Canterbury through to cutting the final spirits with  Antipodes bottled water. Each bottle of gin is distilled with up to 15 botanicals. We only produce in very small numbers – each batch is a maximum of nine bottles distilled in our six litre still.

The nutrients and spent barley from the fermentation process get fed to either our lemon and lime trees or to the cow's next door.

If you are making a G&T with our Gin please always mix with a quality tonic, we recommend and use Fever Tree Refreshingly Light. Friends don't let friends drink mass produced tonic.

One more thing, you may notice our gin go cloudy in the bottle (especially the citrus based ones like Ascension)- this is all the botanical oils and esters becoming less soluble the colder the temperature but then clear during the day when it's warmer, it's perfectly natural and it's because we don't chill filter like the big commercial distilleries - we want the flavour to stay in the gin. You can definitely see the effect when you add ice or tonic to your G&T!