4 Pillars has unveiled two new citrus variations of its unique Uncommon Dry Gin. Swapping out its trademark orange for brand new seasonal citruses, each gins are solely out there for a restricted time.
Uncommon Dry Gin is fashionable, vivid and large on heat orange citrus that’s referred to as the 4 Pillars traditional gin. Rarer Dry Gin is a brand-spanking-new limited-edition taste, cumquat. Rarest Dry Gin, in the meantime, is bergamot-laden gin that may solely be round for a short while.
Made with 9 botanicals, plus contemporary oranges, Uncommon Dry Gin is the spine to 4 Pillars gin. However the query has been posed (and answered) of what occurs while you swap that iconic orange for a unique citrus? That’s what the Uncommon Dry Gin variations are – curiosity distilled.
Final yr, 4 Pillars ran this swap-the-orange experiment with yuzu and bergamot (maintaining all the opposite 9 botanicals precisely the identical) and it went down so properly there’s now a year-round Contemporary Yuzu Gin within the vary, and bergamot has been purchased again for one more season.
4 Pillars Rarer Dry gin introduces cumquat. A brand new citrus for the Aussie model, a few of these fruits have been tracked down within the distillery’s yard of the Yarra Valley, that are used alongside some from growers up in sunny Queensland. These small however mighty fruits pack an actual citrus punch and produce the nice and cozy notes of bitter orange, but in addition the brilliant contemporary notes of lemon and lime. To the gin they bring about a pure tanginess but in addition dial these decrease, rounded candy citrus flavors as much as 11. This gin actually lends itself to highball-style drinks.
“We’ve used numerous cumquat,” stated Grasp Distiller Cameron Mackenzie, “about two instances the quantity of orange we utilized in Uncommon Dry Gin, as a result of it may be extra refined and we wished this to be large, and ship oomph. In comparison with Uncommon Dry, this gin is extra bitter, has a much bigger texture and is intentionally extra citrus-led.”
4 Pillars Rarest Dry Gin finds the return of bergamot is again. As a result of bergamot is the rarest of all citruses, it’s the Rarest Dry Gin. To style, inexperienced bergamot is a hybrid of lemon and bitter orange, and if the fruit is picked early, when darkish inexperienced, the oils are stronger, vastly fragrant and extra bitter. In order that’s precisely what has been completed for this gin – in actual fact when the group zested it within the Distillery you could possibly see the oils flying off the pores and skin and the scent was out-of-this-world magnificent.
The inexperienced bergamot offers natural, Earl Gray and bitter orange notes and creates a gin that heroes the larger botanicals like inexperienced cardamom, cassia, and Tasmanian pepperberry.
Single bottles can be found for $78, two-bottle bundles for $140, and three-pack bundles for$215 with free delivery. 700mL. ABV 41.8%. All of those bottlings are unique to Australia.
The bottled will be bought from the model’s official web site and the Gin Outlets on the 4 Pillars Healesville Distillery and 4 Pillars Surry Hills Laboratory from 20 September 2022.
In June, after two years of intensive work, 4 Pillars unveiled two new ‘spirits’ that noticed them enter the non-alcoholic drinks market: Bandwagon Dry and Bloody Bandwagon.
In April, the model opened the first carbon impartial gin distillery in Australia.
