The Elements of Flavour, Gin & Spirits Distillation Workshop

Learn how to distil your own gin and aromatic spirits. Back by popular demand, our Elements of Flavour workshops come to Waiheke Island this winter to enliven your senses.

This August’s workshop is focused on flavour in spirits, with a full day workshop on GIN - base spirits, bespoke blends and building flavour. Covers the techniques of vapour-infusion, gin-making, blending with quintessences (individual botanical extracts) and making herbal honey elixirs.

These are small-group workshops (usually 5-6 people) held in our own Lab, where you will get hands-on distilling and blending experience.

These workshops are for anyone interested in learning how to work with the building blocks of flavour. If you've ever wanted to create your own aromatic products, recipes and botanical blends, then this is the workshop for you!

Workshop Schedule:
- How to Make a Classic Gin Blend: Creating a Well-balanced Gin Recipe For Use in Our First Distillation).
- How to Create Bespoke Gin Blends The Really Fun Part). Under the Guidance of Jill Mulvaney the Group Will Create a New Blend Using a Wide Array of Classic, Seasonal and Experimental Botanicals For Use in Our Second Distillation).
- We Will Demonstrate Two Vapour Distillations Using the Blends We Have Made and Two L Copper Appliance Stills, Taking You Through the Complete Gin Distillation Process from Start to Finish.
- Using Our Single Vapour-distilled Quintessences, Practise Your Blending Skills and Make Your Own Ml Shot for a Pre-lunch G&t.

Break for Lunch
- Making a Neutral Spirit: Jill Walks Us Through a Demonstration of a Small Stripping Run Using a Pre-prepared Tomato Paste/sugar Wash.
- Alcohol Tasting: We Sample and Compare a Wash or Ferment, Lactanol, Grain Spirit, and Do a Blind Tasting of Our Sugar-based Spirit Against a Typical Store-bought Vodka.
- How to Create New Flavours: Using Our Range of Aromatic Elixirs, Wine and Bitters to Create Cocktails and Aperitifs.
- Complete Our Gin Distillations: Each Person Gets Mls Samples to Take Home.

Getting Here
Ferry’s Depart from Downtown Auckland, and Take Approximately 45 Minutes. If You Are Not Staying on the Island, We Recommend an Am Ferry to Arrive in Plenty of Time. You Can Easily Bus to the Venue—public Buses Depart from the Ferry Terminal at Matiatia. All Three Buses A, B and 502) Will Get You Here—just Ask Your Friendly Driver Which Stop to Get off at to Get You to Moa Ave.

Lunch
The Lab Is an Easy 10 Minute Walk from the Shops and Cafés of Oneroa Village.