“Hand crafted premium Gins
rooted in Africa.”
Bushwillow Gin
This member of the Bushwillow family produces beautiful winged seed pods, large enough to comfortably fill an adult’s cupped hand. The pods rustle in the breeze making a sound reminiscent of waves brushing beach sand. They are a favourite of graceful spiral-horned kudu that gather beneath the trees in late summer to browse the seedpods for the nutty kernel hidden inside.
Tasting Notes
This is the most striking gin in our range. It is full-flavoured with unusual and seductive woody, earthy notes. The Bushwillow seed pods impart a robust, rich, nutty, warmth that envelopes the mouth. It is unlike any other gin – anywhere! The taste lingers on the side of the tongue inviting another sip.
Marula Gin
Marula, the iconic fruit of Africa, has been enjoyed by man and elephants alike over the millennia. These majestic Bushveld trees produce an abundance of fruits in the African mid-summer months of January and February. The antics of elephants that have overindulged in fallen fermenting Marulas are legendary.
Marula has a hard-to-pin-down flavour that combines a clear tangy edge with a rich almost sweet citrus. The langorous scent of Marula is utterly distinctive and the gin delivers a luscious Marula bouquet that primes the palate for the soft tang that floods the mouth. Think passion fruit mingled with lime.
Tasting Notes
Clear Juniper creates the backbone, and floral depth is provided by Bushveld Wild Pear, Dombeya rontundifolia, flowers from Acacia caffra the Bushveld’s delightful Sweet-thorn Acacia, and Buddleja salvifolia.
Wild Cucumber Gin
This stunning fruit, that grows wild in the Bushveld, delivers wonderful fresh cucumber and lime early in the ripening cycle. As its colours change from speckled green to a distinctive swirling orange, vibrant but subtle flavours of green melon and kiwi emerge.
Floral depth is provided by Buddleja salvifolia the Bushveld’s prolifically flowering ‘Butterfly Bush’, so-named because of the masses of butterflies it attracts in early summer.
African horned melon / Kiwano Cucumis metuliferus
Tasting Notes
Smooth, fresh and clean, to this distinctive and complex cucumber gin. Clear notes of cucumber combine with an edge of kiwi. Clear juniper adds middle to high notes.
Collector’s Edition Snuffbox
The Snuffbox tree, Oncoba spinosa, gets its name from its hard-shelled fruits that traditionally were hollowed out to store precious snuff. The dark pulpy fruit inside creates a gin with an intoxicating complexity with a panoply of elusive flavours that make it.
Tasting Notes
Big aromas, exotic in an enticing way, hints of citrus and spice and an intriguing complexity.
The palate offers a superb balance of botanicals, with gentle juniper, tantalising flavours that hint at burnt caramel, cacao, chocolate and an edge of vanilla, all with a distinctive warm malty finish
Perfect as a sipping gin over ice.
