Awildian Gin

12/06/2026

What a way to celebrate World Gin Day! Thank you to the International Wine & Spirits Competition IWSC - International Wine & Spirit Competition for awarding our Mānuka Gin with Gold Outstanding and for Forbes Magazine Forbes for an awesome article about the World’s Best Gins 2026!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hudsonlindenberger/2026/06/12/the-worlds-best-gins-according-to-the-2026-international-wine—spirit-competition/

10/06/2026

Busy times at this years Fieldays at Mystery Creek

09/06/2026

28/05/2026

Oops … we did it again 😀

16/05/2026

Alea iacta est, it’s official - the 2026 World Gin Awards shortlist is out. The World’s 5 Best Matured Gins in alphabetical order are: Awildian Coromandel Mānuka Gin from New Zealand 🇳🇿, Hernö Gin Juniper Cask Gin from Sweden 🇸🇪, In Gin Baden Reserve Barrel Aged Gin from 🇦🇹, In The Welsh Wind Palo Cortado Edition from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, and Komarjev Gin AB- from Slovenia 🇸🇮. Out of these 5 gins the “World’s Best Matured Gin 2026” will be crowned on the 2nd of June in London.

15/05/2026

Some of the many botanicals that find their way into Awildian Gin are more challenging to include than others… Hibiscus (who would have thought?) makes up for things through the freshness and the beauty that it brings to our carefully crafted Coromandel Dry 🌺.

06/05/2026

We promised there’d be more … Thank you first of all again to the judges for awarding Awildian Coromandel Mānuka Gin so highly. It means the World to us and we are so so so grateful.

Awarded for 5 years in a row. What a drop!

This matured gin is unlike any other. At the same time it deeply honours the tradition of wood resting. Except in this beautifully crafted gin we use Mānuka wood. And in the actual distillation, building on an ancient recipe, we use warming botanicals such as vanilla, chamomile, Seville orange to list only a few. Bottled at 48%abv.

No more words needed. Just thank you thank you thank you! YOU are making this possible 🙏.

More World Gin Awards announcements to come in the next post (we did warn you 😉). So watch this space - we’ll keep it exciting 🎉🥳

05/05/2026

5 years of flying high 🎉. Thanks so much to the judges for awarding Awildian Coromandel Dry Gin again this year.

Made by hand with love, care, and dedication.

Thanks also to every one of you who has bought a bottle or has had an Awildian drink over the years. It is your support that makes this all possible and worthwhile 🙏.

But that’s not all folks! More World Gin Awards celebrations in our upcoming posts.

Watch this space!

Thanks heaps .studio for this photo 😘.

22/04/2026

It’s Earth Day today. Let’s all pause for a moment and think about what we doing to our home planet. Inspired by Yvon Chouinard, the co-founder of 1% For The Planet, one of the first things we did when we founded the Coromandel Distilling Co. was to become certified 1% For The Planet members. This means that we commit 1% of our total revenue to non-profit conservation initiatives. In total, more than US$728 million have already been donated by members all around the world. In essence, good business means giving back. To make this a bit better known we’ve chosen Earth Month 2026 to put up a big sign next to our Tasting Room. Just so everyone knows. We are hopeful that there will be more businesses who also believe that we can no longer afford business as usual. Thanks so much to all our customers who are part of this journey and who are making this happen! Happy Earth Day everyone, here’s to our home planet 🙏.