The yuzu brings a mix of lemon, mandarin, cumquat and grapefruit aromatics – all bright and fresh citrus notes – while the addition of finger lime adds some deeper citrus character.
Learning from those adventures making gin with Japanese friends, we’ve used ginger, turmeric and sencha genmaicha, a Japanese green tea with roasted brown rice, for depth of flavour. A canvas of strong pine-needle juniper, and a bit of lemon myrtle adds a touch of lemon curd.
Variety:Rest of the World
Nose:
The yuzu brings a mix of lemon, mandarin, cumquat and grapefruit aromatics – all bright and fresh citrus notes – while the addition of finger lime adds some deeper citrus character
Background:
At Four Pillars, they always had a well-known love of bright flavours and the cornucopia of great Australian-grown citrus.<br><br>It started with oranges in Rare Dry Gin, finger limes in Navy Strength Gin and continued through blood orange, grapefruit, cumquat and bergamot – the list goes on.<br><br>Over the past four or five years, there’s been another citrus slowly edging its way into their hearts. Yuzu is yellow and looks pretty ugly (it’s all in the eye of the beholder) but it tastes and distills great.