What's In-Season Now for Native Ingredients?

What's In-Season Now for Native Ingredients?

If you don't know already, here at Applewood we’re big into seasonality and native ingredients. It's not just the most sustainable way to make drinks, utilise flavour and capture freshness it's also a way to...
Coral Club

Coral Club

60ml Coral Gin 30ml Lemon Juice 10ml raspberry Syrup 3 drops of wonderfoam Shake over ice and strain into a chilled Coupette glass and garnish with fresh raspberries.
karkalla splice

karkalla splice

60mL Karkalla gin20mL Fresh lime juice15mL Condensed milk2 Slices of banana with peel1/2 tsp lime marmalade5mL SugarLime SherbetHalf rim a Nick & Nora glass with lime sherbet,Muddle marmalade, banana and peel in a shaker,add other...
french 75: explored

french 75: explored

Words By Max Allison. Our feature cocktail for Alpine Gin is a riff on the French 75, which has always been an overlooked gin classic. With Max Allison behind the bar his surgical precision makes the...
4 Excellent Gin & Tonics with our Limited Edition Gins

4 Excellent Gin & Tonics with our Limited Edition Gins

The warm weather is well and truly here, and it has us aching and salivating for a good Gin and Tonic. Even on our days off, we can't help but satiate our thirst with the fruits...
3 cocktails with saltbush gin

3 cocktails with saltbush gin

Atriplex is a wonderfully hardy species, lauded for its survivability in the harsh climates of central Australia. As one humoured traveller once wrote:  ‘When the apocalypse comes, all that will be left are cockroaches, nineties...
botanical profile: saltbush

botanical profile: saltbush

Becoming one of the more known and widely available native ingredients, Saltbush has been instrumental as a species across all cultures that have inhabited Australia. Saltbush is the moniker for the species of Atriplex - of...
alpine gin; traversing the ranges

alpine gin; traversing the ranges

"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments" Nathaniel Hawthorne We have always been inspired by the journey - the act of moving through the world in a constant state of discovery, both of identity and environment. Every gin...
how to grow natives at home

how to grow natives at home

Words By Samantha Payne. This article was written on unceded lands, I pay respects to the Gadigal, Bidjigal and Birra-Birragal People, and I recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. I convey profound...