Victoria Distillers - Empress 1908 Cucumber Lemon Gin

Victoria Distillers - Empress 1908 Cucumber Lemon Gin

Jean-Marc completed a National Engineering Diploma in Agriculture at the prestigious Ecole Supérieure d’Agriculture de Purpan in Toulouse

After graduating as a qualified winemaker from Stellenbosch University

Vines have been growing in the area for at least 850 years

eroded rock layers

moving away from the traditional emphasis on oak in order to produce wines that have rich concentration and intense fruit and aromas

The synergy of values and history is self-evident and the wines are some of the most distinctive and under-rated in Europe

they were able to secure the very best locations within one of the world’s greatest wine-producing regions to plant vines

The abandoned winery was re-established in 1996 and has been awarded the Red Five Star rating in the James Halliday Australian Wine Competition since 2005

Their whites are crisp

without having to open them up and thus let oxygen in

After harvesting the grapes once the flavours have reached their peak and the tannins are at their softest

the Couderts have a selection made from old vines