Waxflower Season Has Arrived

Best known for its beautiful flowers, waxflower is by far one of our favourite botanicals to distill at Applewood, and the back end of Winter heralds the start of the blossoming season for this incredible...

Drink Seasonally With The Wax Martini

If you’re looking to take advantage of waxflower season, there’s a must-try cocktail that you can put together with just a little bit of extra work. The best part of this recipe is you can...

The Bramble - Your New Favourite Cocktail for The Season

The Bramble, a modern classic created in the 1980s by renowned British bartender Dick Bradsell had a phenomenal sense of terroir. Bradsell aimed to craft a drink that embodied the essence of the English countryside...

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

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

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

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

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

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...