Strange Nature Gin Gift Box
This unique and easy drinking New Zealand gin is accompanied by two 200ml bottles of delicious Fever-Tree Indian Tonic Waters and is carefully packed into our beautiful Premium Packaging box.
Strange Nature bears all the quintessential flavours of its unique origins. Aromatic and fruity, it's part tropical and zesty, part herbaceous. Enjoy sweet notes of fresh pineapple, candied grapefruit, a touch of kaffir lime and blood orange and savoury flavours of piney juniper, blackcurrant leaf and fresh green pepper. A stunningly bottled gin.
- Distillery: Strange Nature Distilling - colab with Giesen Wines
- Type: Gin
- Region: Marlborough, New Zealand
- Alcohol: 44%
- Volume: 700ml
- Goes with: Ice, premium Indian tonic water
The only botanical Strange Nature use is the one that defines gin - Juniper. The rest of the stunning flavour and aroma profile comes from their unique base spirit - the spirit of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc.
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Some think the Giesen Wines story starts when two brothers with itchy feet and a penchant for travel set off from Germany and found themselves in New Zealand in 1979, buying land and planting a vineyard in 1981.
In fact the Giesen Wines journey may have begun earlier when three teenage brothers set up a hobby vineyard in their native Germany. Or perhaps it started two generations before that, with their grandfather August (Aw-goost) who was a sommelier and restaurateur.
In any case, the three sons of a stonemason were planning to follow the family enterprise in Germany. However, on a whim in 1981 while they were travelling the world and because it reminded them of home, Theo and Alex Giesen purchased land and planted a vineyard just outside Christchurch, at the time it was the world’s southern-most vineyard. Younger brother Marcel took himself to winemaking school and four years later joined Theo and Alex in New Zealand’s South Island to start making wine from their vineyard.
From their first vintage in 1984 the three Giesen brothers have aspired to create great wines. And as their business has grown over the past three decades they have remained true to their vision, creating great wines people love to drink. From that first vintage Giesen made Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and it was an instant hit.
In 1984 Marlborough was little known. However, drawing on their German heritage the three brothers recognised that cool-climate winegrowing created wines with flavour. Since then wine drinkers throughout the world have fallen in love with Giesen Estate Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc making it a runaway success. So buying their first Marlborough property, Dillon’s Point Vineyard in the Wairau Valley in 1993 was a natural step. Since then, the Giesen brothers determination to make wines people love has driven international recognition for Marlborough and its Sauvignon Blanc.
The Giesen range now features an extensive range of Sauvignon Blanc from light alcohol to organic and ultra-premium single vineyard. What’s more they are receiving acclaim for their cool climate Marlborough Pinot Noir and other classics such as Chardonnay and their German-style Estate Riesling, to name a few.
Not content to sit back, they continue to grow Giesen. In 2000 they built their winery in Marlborough and it has expanded every year since. With Marlborough as their winemaking base they have been strategically acquiring vineyards throughout the highly sought after Wairau Valley. These vineyards allow Giesen to select fruit grown in a range of micro-climates giving the winemaking team access to grapes with a range of flavour profiles, perfect for consistently creating great wines.
Giesen started their organic journey by ripping out the Ridge Vineyard in the Wairau Valley, leaving the land fallow for two vintages before replanting a wholly organic, close-planted Pinot Noir and Syrah vineyard. Now 11% of Giesen vineyards are certified organic. Organic vineyards allow Giesen to create a selection of flavour-filled award-winning, organic wines. In 2015 after a long-term lease, Giesen purchased the the prized organic Clayvin, Marlborough’s first significant hillside vineyard. This significant addition to Giesen’s vineyard holdings complements their winemaking innovation and premium wine portfolio.
In 2009, at the same time as they began the organic journey, the three Giesen brothers challenged the wi