Brand spanking new Wellington gin, distilled in Lombard Lane using a hand-made traditional small batch copper still right around the corner from Wineseeker by the Denzien Urban Distillery. 

Made with distilled rainwater with Cardamom, sweet orange peel, lemon peel, coriander, angelica root, fennel seed, native botanicals horopito and kawakawahoropito, kawakawa, liquorice root and juniper (legally, in order to be called “gin”, at least 50% of the botanicals have to be juniper).

A very elegant style, plenty of citrus notes melding with savoury herbs, a luxurious oily texture and super smooth and long finish spicy finish. 

Eamon Rourke and Mark Halton are the owners and distillers of this craft gin distillery which they opened in November 2018.  The link below is a good little article about the two of them and their odyssey into Gin making.

Wellington Word on the Street: from gin clueless to gin curious, an odyssey