Sinkhole Limoncello Gin

This story starts like a great dad joke, a farmer, a data scientist, a community engagement officer and a finance manager walk into a gin bar… and over the course of a several good gins, the chatter about starting their own distillery become a little more serious than it had in the past.

The farm owns land in Mt Gambier where one of South Australia’s famous permanent sinkholes (the Kilsby Sinkhole) is located. The sinkhole has some of the cleanest, clearest water anywhere in the world after it has filtered through the sandstone bedrock surrounding the Mt Gambier area and (as with Scotch Whisky, where the water used is as important as any other flavour in the whisky), the water was taken from the sinkhole and used to create a gin.

The first batch of the gin, which was intended just as a taste test was 400L, far too much for tasting so the distiller offered to infuse some lemons from a family tree and turn it into Limoncello. Well, sort of limoncello- Limoncello is usually lemon infused grappa, a much harsher spirit. And thus Sinkhole Limoncello Gin was born.