anther-geelong-distillery
Anther Moon Cake Gin 2023
Anther Moon Cake Gin was created by Joey Tai, legend of Australian hospitality industry.
Joey wanted to create a gin that spoke to her heritage, growing up in Hong Kong, and her career as an Australian distiller playing with native Australian flavours. Joey has combined traditional Moon Cake Festival flavours like Red Date, Lotus Seeds, and Rose with vibrant Aussie botanicals like Lemon Gum and finger lime. Anther Moon Cake Gin has deep warm sweet and spice notes and a bright citrusy pop. It's a flavour ride at 46%ABV. It's was first release in 2022 and a new batch is made every year in August in celebration of the date of the September festival.
Joey says, ‘I’ve wanted to create this gin for a while, and I am thankful I get to do it with the Anther team. It’s great to be working in a business and industry that you can be creative and play with flavours. And I really wanted to show that the flavours I knew growing up in Hong Kong has great possibility to work with Australia’s booming gin ingredients.’
Each year's batch of Anther Moon Cake Gin is super limited!
Anther Moon Cake Gin 2023
The Anther Flavour Wheel
Did you know, each bottle of Anther Gin has a hidden recipe on the back?
-
Whats a flavour wheel and where is it?
When you get your yummy bottle of Anther Gin into those hot hands of yours, flip your bottle over and have a peek at the back label. At the very top of each back label you will see a wheel with 8 different botanicals sections. Each section will tell you if there's a lot, or a little of these botanical bombshells in the gin. Neat, huh?
-
How do you drink your Anther Gin neat?
We recommend via your mouth ;)
Have a little sip of water before you drink your gin straight, this lubricates your mouth and prepares it for the high alcohol content.
Let the flavour wash over your mouth and breathe out after you've taken a sip. You might pick up citrus, sweetness, spicy or savoury notes. As you sip, we recommend looking over the flavour wheel, there might be some flavours that jump out at you that you know from the botanicals!
Tip - If you sniff your gins with your mouth open (key here is to NOT breathe the gin in through your mouth), your mouth gets prepped for tasting the high proof spirit.