Your Complete Guide To Wine-Gin

Distilleries in New Zealand have undoubtedly produced the best beverage to relieve your thirst. Although it isn’t an official classification yet, “wine gin” is a helpful term to characterise a growing range of juniper-led beverages that draw their inspiration from premium wines.

However, how is this gin produced, and what can you anticipate from this intriguing subgenre? Discover all the solutions, including how to create and consume them! You may become quite thirsty after reading the section below, so be careful!

What Is A Wine Gin, Exactly?

The same grape skins from farms renowned for their sparkling wine are used to create the new product, which is then combined with wheat spirit to create a fragrant spirit.

Infused with juniper, coriander, dried red berry, roses bud, citrusy fruits, rosehip, angelica, and paradise seeds, the new gin has the flavours of pinot noir.

The result is a flavorful pink gin with subtle red berry scents that wonderfully counterbalance the palate’s dominance of juniper and the finish’s cooling citrus notes.

How Is Wine Gin Produced?

Each distiller will have its process for creating wine gin based on its tools, level of expertise, the botanicals at its disposal, and their ideal end product.

It’s as easy as letting the gin age in a barrel until it has absorbed the tastes of the sweet wine that the barrels once contained for barrel-aged liqueurs like One Gin Port Barrel Aged Gin. Others experience a little more complex process.

Their wine gin is produced utilising more conventional distillation methods. The team distils carefully chosen botanicals, including strawberries, lemon verbena, rose petals, orange flower, and pink peppercorn, to replicate the dry deliciousness of rosé wines. They then create the light pink by macerating fresh strawberries in London Dry Gin.

Create Your Favourite Wine Gin Cocktails!

Tradition dictates that sloe wine gins be consumed plain or in warm beverages like hot toddies. Still, it’s also excellent over ice, mixed with a little tonic with a rosemary leaf for decoration, or even topped off with prosecco for a fantastic sparkling aperitif! So here is one of our top simple sloe wine gin cocktails for you to attempt at home. Cheek cheek!

Negroni with Sloe Wine Gin

Materials:

• Sloe wine gin, 15 ml.
• 15 ml of Campari
• Sweet vermouth in 15 ml

Steps:

• Add ice to the glass until it is three-quarters full.
• Pour some alcohol on top.
• Gently stir until completely cold.
• Add an orange twist as a garnish.
• Voila, You’re Done!

How Do I Properly Savour A Wine Gin?

While a wine gin and tonic is always a sure bet, the answer to this question entirely relies on the style of gin.

Richly flavorful gins that have been macerated or soaked, like One Gin Port Barrel Aged Gin, frequently imitate the taste of a sloe gin.

As a result, services that function with the latter will probably work with the first. Try them in sloe gin-specific drinks or as a blender with ginger ale or ginger beer.

In the End

While wine gin may appear to be a straightforward mingling of wine and gin, rest easy knowing that this delectable concoction has more refinement than Bruno Mars and Cardi B put together.

It is made from the same grape skins used to manufacture sparkling wine and mixed with wheat alcohol to yield a fragrant elixir.