A very unique Christmas Gin for a sensational Christmas

Wondering how Christmas could get even better? You’ve got the tree and decorations up, you’ve already purchased the presents, you’ve decorated the house, and planned out your perfect Christmas menu. What about Christmas Day drinks?

This year, surprise your guests and family with a very unique Christmas Pudding Gin! Served during Christmas Lunch or dinner over ice or in delicious Christmas cocktails or it makes for the perfect gift.

Meet our Christmas Pudding Gin - 2022 edition

Each year we produce our Christmas gin in collaboration with other local businesses to showcase the amazing produce and botanicals that we are graced with in this paradise we call home.

This year, we have teamed up with award-winning Ochre Restaurant, Cairns Far North Queensland to bring you our very limited Christmas Gin that combines our beloved childhood memory filled pudding and the best of our tropical botanicals. Ochre is one of Cairns longest running restaurants with Craig Squire opening its doors in 1994. Craig, Carley and their team have been dedicated to creating modern Australian dishes with a strong focus of native local ingredients since its inspection. It’s this love for local produce that bought this collaboration to light to produce what we think is our best Christmas Pudding Gin to date.

The not-so-secret recipe of our delicious Christmas Gin

It all starts with a delicate backbone of juniper. Our juniper berries are grown in Macedonia before making their way to Cairns. We crush each berry to ensure we extract as much flavour as possible before it is steeped in our spirit for 24 hours. Just before the distillation, head distiller Rory adds in Daintree Vanilla, cinnamon, raisins, macadamia, ginger, passion fruit seeds, caramelised apple and few other secret ingredients.

Meanwhile, fresh mango, oranges and Ochre’s Christmas Puddings are placed in our Vapour basket where the gin passes through and captures all the oils and flavour. Once distilled, the gin is placed to rest in a sherry and port barrels from Overeem Distillery in Tasmania for up to six months adding a beautiful taste and colour to the gin.

The final stage is adding some local honey to the gin for that touch of sweetness with two different styles of honey used to get the required taste.

We crafted it with locally sourced mangos, honey, Daintree vanilla, cinnamon, raisins, ginger, passion fruit seeds, apple, caramel and fresh Christmas Puddings. This gin is aged in Sherry and Port barrels from Overeem Distillery, Tasmania to create a beautifully balanced gin replicating a tropical Christmas.