IWSC win for Chemistry Gin
Fantastic news! Chemistry Gin has won a Silver Medal in the ‘London Dry Gin’ category at the 2023 International Wine and Spirits Competition in London! Really gratifying as Chemistry Gin was launched just six months ago!
With a score of 92 out of a possible 100 points, Chemistry Gin was among New Zealand’s highest-scoring gins.
Today’s IWSC Silver joins our Gold from the Women’s Wine and Spirit Awards, awarded in November 2022, also in London.
We’re absolutely delighted that our gin has scored among the best in New Zealand – and the world! – at what is widely considered the most prestigious spirits competition.
But there’s a lot more to Chemistry Gin than just our gin. There’s the story of how “Chemistry” came to be.
Marie is the “chemist” in Chemistry Gin. As some of you may be aware, in the wake of the 2020 lockdown, Marie turned her love of flavours as a talented home chef and instructor in the Wellington Continuing Education College, to creating an easy-drinking gin that we would enjoy. Two years later, we launched Chemistry Gin.
Chemistry Gin is unusual among New Zealand gins in that we use a vegan base alcohol, resulting in one of New Zealand’s few vegan gins.
We had the opportunity to choose a base spirit that wasn’t derived from dairy, which meant our gin would be vegan. That was an easy decision, so we’re pleased that Chemistry is also vegan-friendly.
We’re proud that Chemistry is blazing another trail as the first New Zealand gin bottled in one-hundred per cent post-consumer glass.
Sustainability was key for us. We chose a beautiful bottle – but chose it based on its environmental credentials first, and beauty second.
We also sourced a glass stopper, so that our customers’ Chemistry bottles can be infinitely re-used.
Sustainability was also key to our recipe development. Marie selected only widely available botanicals that could be sourced sustainably. She did this to ensure that Chemistry treaded lightly on the planet. Our main botanicals include Sichuan peppercorns, sage and seaweed.
For every bottle of Chemistry Gin sold, we donate two dollars to women in STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Chemistry Gin’s wins at IWSC and the Women’s Wine and Spirit Awards join numerous medals Chemistry Gin has won for its branding and package design. Chemistry’s design team, SingleDouble in Auckland, won Gold at the New Zealand Designers Institute “Best Awards” in October 2022 – only four weeks after the gin’s launch – and a slew of medals have followed. SingleDouble took a coveted “Black” award at the World Brand Design Awards in January, one of only 7 packaging designs worldwide to win the honour.
Chemistry Gin is available online from our website www.chemistrygin.com and at fine retailers in the North and South Island including Glengarry Wines, Moore Wilson’s, Regional Wines and Spirits, La Bella Italia, Ballantynes in Christchurch, The Gin Room in Marlborough, Down to Find Wine in Greytown, and selected LiquorLand shops across the country.
The full list of IWSC winners is available on its website here: https://iwsc.net/results/search