Echuca Distillery Pastis
Echuca Distillery Pastis
AU$78, 45% alcohol.
Echuca is a distillery in the Murray River region and the owners are head distiller David De Vries and his wife Fiona. Their production started with the love of gin and now includes other spirits. Their pastis opens with a strong floral perfume, coriander, caraway, sweet blossoms a la frangipani, scented candle wax, green parsley, and mandarin peel. It turns quite opaque-milky after water addition and remains very perfumed in the mouth. Flavours follow with sugar almond and almond friand, orange peel and honey/rose water soaked baba. An opulent and aromatic example.