Distillery Botanica Triple Sec Valencia Liqueur: Review
Distillery Botanica Triple Sec Valencia Liqueur
$59, 34% alcohol, cork stopper, NSW Central Coast.
For years, if not decades, I waltzed through duty free at airports without a care in the world – other than worrying if I still had my passport on me – until one day it occurred to me that I could probably snaffle a bottle of Cointreau while I’m there. Oh boy. I loves me an orange liqueur, mostly for margarita purposes but really, served neat, on ice, it’s just such a beautiful tipple. Now my waltzing days are over, at airports, which is a good and bad thing; lugging bottles is such a pain. Anyway, when I saw that Distillery Botanica from the Central Coast of NSW had released a new orange liqueur, I jumped at it. If ever there’s a drink that Australians should be champion producers of, it’s orange liqueur.
The Distillery Botanica Triple Sec version – well, it’s beautiful. It has the orange flavour, of course, all sweet and summer-rich, but there’s just enough rind-driven bitterness, and an almost blood orange-like vividness to the orange flavour itself, which works beautifully with the clean, cleansing exhibition of the spirit. Hats off to Distillery Botanica here; they done good.
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All photography by Mattinson Photography.
