Local distillery offers special Father’s Day workshop

Distillery Botanica at Erina is offering a special Father’s Day gin gift and experience tailored to the dads of the Central Coast.

The global award-winning distillery is offering a bespoke bloke’s gin-making experience complete with Six String beer, a Shhmoakesy pie, and a hand-crafted bottle of gin distilled by dad using his own hand-picked botanical ingredients and personalised with his own label.

The $180 Distil Your Own Workshop is available at 11.30am or 2.30pm on Sunday, September 1 and can also be bought as a gift voucher for future use.

Distillery Botanica is located in the Fragrant Gardens at Erina, surrounded by a beautiful gin garden that is home to a martini glass fountain, an abundance of citrus and rows of garden beds filled with different botanicals including juniper bushes, which is where participants in the gin-making classes pick their chosen ingredients to distil into their own gin.

Distillery Botanica first opened its doors in 2007 as the 16th commercial small-scale gin producer in Australia and today produces a range of gins and liqueurs including the acclaimed Moore’s Dry Gin – the first Australian gin to win gold at the prestigious London International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC).

The range also includes Moore’s Blood Orange Gin, Moore’s Distiller’s Cut Juniper Gin, amongst other gin variants, as well as two-time IWSC gold medal winning Lemon Myrtle Liqueur, Raspberry Liqueur, Vodka, and Terrigal Rum.

New to the range is Moore’s Pearl Crush gin, a quintessentially Central Coast spirit blended with distilled Akoya saltwater pearls cultivated in the pristine waters of Broken Bay Pearl Farm and infused with pink grapefruit, Valencia orange and blood orange grown at Kulnura, as well as botanicals from the distillery gardens.