Yesterday, I was lucky enough to meet up with Felicity & Greg @ausbotanicals at @reedandcodistillery in Bright!
We sampled a tasting flight, a dirty martini, aviation and a grapefruit gimlet. The food was also incredible!
The standout was the Mistelle 2020 (20% ABV). 2020 wasn’t the best start for grape growers throughout our region due to bush fires tainting the grapes. As it happens apart from smoke taint the quality of the grapes were amazing, exceptional actually but deemed unusable for wine production leaving most vineyards with no option than to destroy the fruit. The solution unfermented fortification with little skin contact – fermentation releases the bound smoke particles that the vines store in the fruit and the skin. Unfermented and little to no skin contact produced a beautiful non smoked juice (Info: From @reedandcodistillery website)
Salud! And Cheers to meeting fabulous #drinkstagram friends!
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