Scapegrace Black

Scapegrace Distilling Co. - Bendigo, Central Otago, New Zealand

Style - Contemporary
700ml | 41.6% ABV

Botanicals
Juniper, Aronia Berry, Sweet Potato, Butterfly Pea Flower, Saffron, Pineapple & others.

Description
Naturally black based on the colours and flavors from botanical extracts including, Aronia Berry, Saffron, Pineapple, Butterfly Pea and Sweet Potato. On the palate it is full bodied with a menthol like crispiness, chilling with a candied sweet potato and pineapple finish, the mouth feel is luxurious, velvety and ridiculously delicious. This is the taste of Black.

Distilling
Scapegrace Gin uses Glacial Water from the Southern Alps of New Zealand. New Zealand water is unique because our geography is unique. The rain that hits New Zealand is the same as the rain that hit New Zealand a thousand years ago. The first thing it hits is a huge, jagged mountain range that runs the length of the South Island. This mountain range then holds this water for 80 years. That’s how long it takes to travel through the layers of sediment until it’s finally released in to the depths of one of the world’s last natural aquifers. The reason that Scapegrace tastes clean is because it is.

About
Two guys from New Zealand who didn’t know each other until one married the others sister and then they did. A year sitting in bars and lounges discussing how they always wanted to make their own gin. This is how two brothers-in-law and a part time musician got in to a lot of debt and created a gin that won gold in London and San Francisco.

12 botanicals, nature's wild apostles. Water, torn from the earth 80 years after it was hurled down on New Zealand's Southern Alps. A whisky still, 19th century, stumbled upon in a long abandoned shed.

These are their ingredients. This is how Scapegrace signs its name around the globe.