Award-winning gin from a craft gin distiller at Allworth in the Barrington Coast.
More awards for one of our region's premier producers. Following their Bronze win in 2022, the Farmer's Wife Distillery at Allworth has won two more World Gin Awards in 2023: Silver in Contemporary Style Gin category plus Country Winner Gold in Signature Botanical category. Congrats to Kylie and team, so well deserved!
We are committed to making gin the way gin used to be made, by a one shot distillation in a traditional copper pot still. Our beautiful still was commissioned to Peter Bailey of Hobart in Tasmania and was precariously road tripped home. Copper is essential to the distillation process as the chemical reaction results in a softer and smoother spirit.
We rest our botanicals on the finest quality neutral Australian sugar cane spirit. This spirit provides a clean blank canvas upon which I can weave my botanical magic. We keep only the very hearts of the spirit and then blend it with purified rainwater harvested from the farm.
We are 45 minutes north of Newcastle and only 30 minutes from Newcastle airport, along the scenic Bucketts Way. The Bucketts Way is an enjoyable country drive that meanders through rolling green hills and small rural communities and is the gateway to the Barrington Tops National Park.
People love the native sage in our gin, it smells like the Australian bush.
Australian gins are unique, often containing indigenous ingredients as well as the mandatory juniper. We use native sage, lemon myrtle, anise myrtle and pepperberry, with some botanicals grown on our family farm here at Allworth.
But it's the sugarbag honey collected from native stingless bees that gives The Farmer’s Wife Autumn Dry Gin its signature flavour.
Famous for our award-winning Autumn Dry Gin
Tasting our gin, on the nose you are greeted with the distinct aroma of juniper softened by the sweet scent of pink grapefruit and a lingering hint of honey.
When sipped the distinct punchy juniper notes are first and are layered with citrus from the lemon myrtle, zesty kaffir lime and grapefruit.
This is quickly followed by a savoury warmth (not heat) to the palate from the cardamom, pepper berry and native sage.
The Angelica, orris root and liquorice provide an earthy balanced undertone but it is that gorgeous grapefruit and honey that lingers on the palate and leaves you with the feeling and colours of autumn.
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