Victorian distillery, Four Pillars, is bringing back a limited-edition fan-favourite for 2024. After the inaugural 2023 vintage of Bloody Pinot Noir Gin sold out in under a week, the Four Pillars team is bringing it back to shelves, following a stellar 2024 vintage in the Yarra Valley.
Vintage 2024 is a ruby-coloured gin, similar yet brighter in colour than its sibling Bloody Shiraz Gin, and brimming with rhubarb, rose petal and strawberry characters.
This year the fruit was mostly handpicked from Yarra Station with a small portion from Upper Ngumby and for the first time, instead of picking off the grapes, whole bunches of Pinot were soaked in high-proof Rare Dry Gin.
The grapes were left to steep for around seven weeks, extracting amazing colour and flavour, especially rhubarb characters from the whole bunches. They were then pressed off to make sure every drop of flavour was captured, and more Rare Dry Gin was blended in to finish it off.
Four Pillars Co-founder and Head Distiller, Cameron Mackenzie, said the company wasn’t sure if they would be able to pull it off due to early rain in the season, but managed to make a great 2024 Pinot.
“It also helps that we don't just get grapes from one place. We source from a couple of vineyards and use multiple clones to get a more complex gin at the end,” said Mackenzie.
“The only downside is we can only get so much of it!”
Four Pillars Bloody Pinot Gin will be available to the Four Pillars email database from 7 August, and available to the public from 13 August online at www.fourpillarsgin.com and the Gin Shops at the Four Pillars Healesville Distillery and Four Pillars Surry Hills Laboratory, for RRP $84.
