The Tempest Summer Gin

Each Tempest season has a unique smell that echoes the season in which it was made. The aery of Citrus fruit and the cape fynbos herb component of the summer creates a balanced bouquet that boasts of pine cones, thyme, lemongrass, and African wormwood, which provides an earthiness to balance the sweet aromatic components.

Waxed citrus peel with a fresh pillow of Cape Fynbos herbs as well as a light Juniper undertone. The delicate balance between fresh fruit and savory earth components evokes the sensation of walking through a dry veldt or an afternoon game drive on the Savanna plains. Sweet, full-bodied, and balanced, this smooth gin speaks of African sunsets and refined craft Gin

The Tempest Gin embodies the dramatic nature of the Cape of storms and the abundance of the richest floral kingdom on earth. Grape spirit and hand-harvested, seasonal, fynbos botanicals are infused and distilled to reflect each unique season. The name is derived from the latin term tempus meaning time & season and tempestas meaning a violent windstorm frequently accompanied by rain, snow or hail. Plaisir Wine Estate - Home of The Tempest Gin - is a WWF Conservation Champion and all the botanicals that are hand-harvested for The Tempest Gin are done sustainably to keep the biodiversity of the farm alive. The fynbos on the Simonsberg Mountain range changes dramatically throughout the year and each season has a completely different and unique expression. The fynbos plants change texture, smell and essence and capturing these changes in a bottle is why each season of the Tempest is different and unique and characterized in bottles of different colours denoting each season. The result - a small-batch signature gin for each season, deeply rooted in the Cape and a holistic celebration and reminder of what the Cape of Storms is and represents