Awildian Coromandel Dry Gin Blue Edition

Indigo in the bottle, pink in the glass: Awildian Coromandel Dry GinDry ginGin with no perceptible sweetness: in the European Union, the word "dry" allows at most 0.1 g of sugar per litre.GlossarySee Dry gin gins Blue Edition changes colour when tonic is added. Butterfly pea flowers give it a vibrant blue, and because their natural pigment is sensitive to pH, the gin shifts from indigo to pink as soon as an acidic mixer such as tonic or citrus goes in. The Coromandel Distilling Company makes it in Thames, on the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand.

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The gin builds on the Coromandel Dry Gin recipe: Seville orange, pomegranate, lemon thyme, bramble, damask rose petals, blueberries, juniper, grains of paradise and cardamom. The botanicals macerate for 16 hours on a sugar cane base, are distilled in a 150-litre Carl still and rest for at least 22 days before bottling at 47% ABV in 500 ml bottles. The gin is unfilteredUnfiltered ginThe essential oils of the peels and plants stay in the gin: when chilled or mixed with tonic they turn it slightly cloudy, like pastis (the "louche" effect).Glossary, hand-labelled with batch traceability, and 1% of proceeds goes to environmental causes.

The distillery describes a floral, colour-shifting, citrus gin with floral sweetness, balanced juniper and notes of sweet biscuit and almond. The World Gin Awards judges in 2026 noted a viola-blue colour, refreshing citrus acidity and an aromatic floral and juniper nose, adding that tonic transforms the colour and softens the perception of alcohol on the finish.

Awards have followed the colour: Gold in the Colour-Changing GinColour-changing ginGin tinted with butterfly pea flower, whose pigments shift from blue to pink when the acidity of tonic or lemon lowers the pH.Glossary category in 2026, Country Winner Gold for New Zealand in the same category in 2024 and the same national title for Contemporary ginContemporary ginAlso called New Western: juniper is still there, but other botanicals (citrus, flowers, spice) take the lead.GlossarySee Contemporary gin gins in 2023, all three awarded by the World Gin Awards, plus Silver at the NZ Small BatchSmall batchProduction in small quantities per distillation run, often in a small still. The term has no legal definition.Glossary Gin Awards 2024 and at the New Zealand Spirits Awards 2022. The gin and tonic shows the colour change best, but it works just as well in a Gimlet, a Negroni or a Martini, and a slice of lemon added to the glass deepens the shift towards pink.