Needle & Pin Spirits
Our focus however is not just on the craft of distilling, but also sustainable approaches to producing our spirits. Our story starts with the owners daughter Kayla and the company winemaker Julian, all having a passion to distil different products. Kayla and all the current generation of Grigoriou family are born and raised in the wine region of the Riverland, and this is where our wine company’s vineyards are located. It is also the starting point of our spirits.
We use “spent” wine in our still to create our initial base spirit, the wine is produced from grapes from our vineyards and neighbouring’ vineyards. The botanicals we use to flavour and enhance our gin are brought from local Riverland producers; “seconds” oranges & mandarins that would otherwise be rejected from Supermarkets due to minor blemishes, olive leaves from our olive groves, saltbush that is native to the Riverland and grows almost anywhere you lay your eyes and almonds that come from a local producer. Our objective is to support local, our fellow farmers, producers and neighbours in order to keep our gin as local as possible.
Author: Dirk Jahn
