Humdinger Sloe Gin

Geraldine Distillery - Geraldine, Canterbury, New Zealand

Style - Flavoured (Sloe)
500ml | 26.3% ABV

LIMITED EDITION

Botanicals
Juniper Berries (Macedonia)
Coriander Seeds (Bulgaria)
Angelica Root (Belgium)
Ginger (India)
Liquorice Root (Egypt)
Nutmeg (Sri Lanka)
Orris Root (Morocco)
Homegrown Barley (Canterbury)
Fresh Orange and Lemon Peel (Gisborne)
Slow Berries (New Zealand)

Description
Humdinger Sloe Gin is made exclusively from New Zealand orchard grown sloe berries. Picking the berries at peak ripeness, they snap freeze our fruit, bursting the skins to uncover the most subtle of notes from within. Each bottle is jam packed with sloe berries to provide rich plum and almond flavours, and just a hint of sugar syrup is added to create a drink with the perfect balance of tartness, warmth and flavour to get your tastebuds humming.

Terroir (the complete natural environment in which a particular wine is produced, including factors such as the soil, topography, and climate) defines why their Sloe Gin is very different from all others - thanks to the Canterbury climate, soil, terrain & growing technique.

Distilling
Every step of the Humdinger way, quality is always considered first - not cost, nor time, but quality. Their hand-made 10L copper still from Portugal is where every Humdinger recipe started as an idea, before being fine-tuned and graduating onto the larger stills. With flexibility and opportunity at the forefront of its design their refiner features a 50L copper pot, a 3-plate column, a generous botanical basket and a few secret modifications, providing limitless possibilities for the art of distillation. Humdinger has a six-hour distillation, one of continuous monitoring that takes generous heads and tails cuts, leaving only a heart of the highest quality that will be rested and mellowed before progressing to bottling.

About
A quality gin doesn’t happen by accident and quality botanicals are a key element in a Humdinger gin. It began with a few loose words, a fair bit of encouragement, some wild imaginings and a decent dose of bravado. A copper still followed and Geraldine’s first distillery was established in 2020 Passionate about sharing the art of distillation and Humdinger Gin with the world, Andrew and Saskia are doing it for the love of gin.