Four Pillars Lune Gin

A deliciously silky gin made in collaboration with Four Pillars’ good friends from the much-loved Lune Croissanterie.

With a buttery mouthfeel, a touch of warm spice and a hint of sweetness, this gin was made for rich and textural G&Ts and brunch-inspired cocktails like a gin-spiked Almond Latte.

Four Pillars and Lune. Two Australian-made, Melbourne-born brands. Both with a love for local ingredients. Both with a flavour obsession. And both with an uncompromising approach to craft and quality. While one owns the morning and the other the night, they realised the similarities between their two brands were too great to leave unexplored.

And where better to start than with the very thing that makes Lune croissants so iconic? Lune uses nearly double the butter of your average croissant (they don’t taste that good for no reason), so they knew that butter had to be a key part of the gin.

After a few experimental distillations (turns out there is a skill to distilling butter!), they landed on the winning recipe.

Into the still went vanilla pods, macadamia nuts, roasted wattleseed, nutmeg and lemon myrtle, along with almonds roasted in the distillery kitchen (roasting makes the crystallised sugar come through during distillation) and Lune’s caramel-smelling clarified butter. Then, the botanical basket was loaded up with organic fresh oranges to help bring some brightness and balance to the gin.

The final result is a silky, buttery gin with a hint of sweetness from vanilla bean and a real depth from all the roasted nuts.