I like the sound of Gingin gin

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Ron Rybs (@RonRybs) wrote recently about the Viaduct Tavern in London. It is a gin palace and it seems gin palaces are on the rise. The making of gin is also increasing in Australia. In Western Australia, many town names end in ‘-gin’ which is supposed to mean ‘place of water’ in the aboriginal language. This caught the imagination of distiller Greg Garnish who set out to create speciality gins named in the honour of seven towns. The towns are Narrogin (which is our home town), Dangin, Wagin, Corrigin, Muntadgin, Badgingarra and Gingin. The series is called the Outback Gin Series and celebrates the floral diversity of the greater wheatbelt region which has about 7500 different species of plants that are not found anywhere else in the world. Greg from Wise Wines travelled 4,500 kms and collected about 70 different botanicals and distilling each individually. He chose a plant unique to each location and made a gin from it. As picking native plants from bush areas is illegal, the botanicals were all sourced from private farms. While most distilleries use grain to create their spirit, Greg chose to use wine as the base. After distilling twice to get to a pisco (whatever that is), the botanicals are put into the still. Juniper and range of other flavours are added. I like the sound of Gingin gin, don’t you? And perhaps Anna (@LadyDuck) or anyone else can enlighten me as to what pisco is. The photo is of my parents' old shed in Narrogin.