Roselle - Bitters
Roselle is the common name for Hibiscus Sabdariffa. It has a bright red calyx which adds colour and flavour along with 23 other botanicals including Australian natives – strawberry gum, Tasmanian pepperberry and salt bush. Its important bitterness comes from various roots, in particular gentian from Aubrac in the Centre of France. The wine base is from Heathcote grapes fermented as rosé, which is fortified with the unique blend of botanical tinctures . The residual sugar, from grapes only, is around 100 g/l, indicating a more Aperitivo style but it is very well suited as a Bitter, to the growing category of low sugar/low alcohol cocktail.
BASE WINE: Rosé
KEY BOTANICALS: Strawberry gum, Tasmanian pepperberry and salt bush.
750mL — 22%
Kina Quinquana
Our tonic wine feels equally at home in cocktails such as a Corpse Reviver #2 as it does with a splash of soda and fresh citrus in a highball.
BASE WINE: Viognier
KEY BOTANICALS: Cinchona bark, lemon gum, finger lime, Victorian green tea
50mL / 750mL / 1500mL Unfiltered — 17.5%
Nocturne - Vin Amer
Vin Amer is certainly a versatile cocktail ingredient where a bitter wine or liqueur is called for, but Maidenii Nocturne Vin Amer really comes into its own when simply enjoyed chilled in a wine glass.
BASE WINE: Mature wines from Central Victoria
KEY BOTANICALS: Wormwood, quandong, desert lime, muntrie, riberrie, black truffle
500mL