A red base wine of Syrah sweetened and fortified with distillates of Kerikeri Orange, Totara, Kahikatea, Matai, Kauri, Northern Rata, and Kanuka Flowers. With the use of the barks from all of these native trees, Vermouth #2 undeniably gives a sense of the Puketi forest, just a paper-plane flight from our Home Block. Remy and I have spent a fair few hours in the past 6 months foraging through the forest, searching for things we could use, and I really feel like this Vermouth captures all the beautiful smells of the forest.
Delicious on its own or with ice and a slice of orange peel, but we like serving it in a cocktail with 1/3 Campari and 1/3 Little Biddy Gin on Ice.