It’s the creation of Stillwater’s Kim Seagram and Natalie Fryar, chief distiller and blender, whose passion for gin is, she says, almost as strong as her love of wine.

While running her own sparkling wine business, Ms Fryar cast about for another project to keep her busy as the wines matured.

She soon turned to blending and distilling her own gin.

“It’s the complexity of flavour you can get in gin,” Ms Fryar said.

“It’s so nuanced, there’s so much influence from the different botanicals and styles.”

Call-outs on social media saw community members gather Lisbon lemons and source native plants for the making of Abel Gin.

“When you taste the gins, they taste like they are from Tassie – they can be from nowhere else,” Ms Fryar said.

“It tastes of Tasmania because Tasmania is in it.”

White-labelled ‘Essence’ brings refreshing citrus notes to the summer table, while ‘Quintessence’ bears the dark label and a corresponding complexity ideal for martinis or Negronis. 

Ms Seagram said that the growth of the craft spirits scene in Tasmania was exciting.

“There’s been such an explosion in the craft brewing industry, I think the wine industry was the first one to go away from the mainstream,” she said.

“And then it’s gone into the beer and now the spirits are just starting to come out.”

Abel Gin is available online via the distillery’s Facebook and Instagram pages.