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WAIKATO BUSINESS NEWS, JULY/AUGUST <strong>2023</strong> 13 A Holland Road Classic Gin wins gold at Australian awards Local gin maker Terry Rillstone has made his mark at the <strong>2023</strong> Australian Gin Awards with some old favourites and a new Holland Road gin. Attaining gold in the classic gin category, the newly released Holland Road entry was one of 17 entries to attain gold out of 58 classic gins from Australia and New Zealand distilleries. The Holland Road Wild Ginseng and Manuka Honey picked up a silver and the Pink Grapefruit and the Kawakawa and Green Tea were both awarded bronze. “I was pretty happy to go up against some pretty well-known distilleries and big names from Australia and New Zealand.” These awards come on the back of wins at the 2022 New Zealand Spirits Awards where the Holland Road Sauvignon Blanc and Green Tea attained double gold, a gold for the Pink Grapefruit and the Kawakawa and Wild Ginseng and Manuka Honey came away with silver. It was after the NZ awards that Terry decided to take on the challenge of crafting a classic London gin. All of his gins are tested on friends and family, and Terry takes on their feedback as he develops the flavour profiles. The six-months he spent tweaking the recipe for the Holland Road Classic paid off at the Australian Gin Awards. “I entered the awards on those changes without really market testing it too much. Yeah, I was happy with the result. Like the awards last year, I entered just to get some feedback.” Based in Eureka and operating out of a humble home garage set-up, Terry started brewing gin in a one-litre copper about eight years ago. What started as a hobby has grown to a commercially operation in the past three years. It’s an impressive set up now, with a state-of-the-art copper still, several stainless-steel holding tanks and all the gear required to craft and bottle award-winning gins. Now that he’s riding a high with the Holland Road Classic Gin, Terry is developing a new spirit range that he’s keeping under wraps at the moment but hopes it will be ready to launch early next year. “After I'd done this forth gin, I just thought I've got to do something completely different. There are so many gins out there now on and you can keep adding different botanicals and keep doing it, and that's great. But the market is a bit saturated with gin,” he says. “Like everything, it takes a little bit of time and is quite complicated. The new range will definitely showcase some interesting and not so well-known New Zealand botanicals.” The new spirit range will have a new look, that is also currently being developed. The Holland Road gin branding features an image of a 17th century plague doctor and might seem inspired now but little did Terry know that the Covid pandemic was just around the corner when he went commercial. Hidden behind crow-like masks, plague doctors relied on the innate power of botanicals both as protective talismans and as a source of natural healing. Inspired by these ancient traditions, Terry sources natural botanicals long used for their protective qualities, he particularly favours New Sealed native botanicals, including pohutukawa stamen, harakeke seeds, kawakawa berries and leaves, totora and the bark of a 100-year-old rimu. Just like the growth in popularity of craft beers, gin has seen a resurgence in New Zealand. The handful of commercial distilleries in New Zealand 15 years ago has grown to almost 150, with about 85% specialising in gin. Most of these, like Holland Road, are boutique, handcrafted operations. Visit www.hollandroad.co.nz to find out more. Dear Skilled Prime Migrant Minister Category Hipkins… residence changes… Its Election Time (again!) – a time to reflect… Obtaining Congratulations residence on your is the promotion, main motivating and for factor this for timely migrants opportunity to relocate to contribute from around our 30+ the years world of to experience New Zealand in and New the Zealand SMC has immigration historically work been to the help main inform pathway your for thinking migrants about your to approach obtain New to Zealand the immigration residence. portfolio. It is tradition that immigration is a hot topic at election time, but this year there has been very little rhetoric. 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