Distillery Botanica Triple Sec Valencia Liqueur: Review

Written By Campbell Mattinson

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.

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

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Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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