Reid + Reid

We are on an enforced break as our floor boards are getting sanded and polished as part of our home renos so we popped over the hill to the Martinborough vineyard area to chill out for a few days. We visited a number of playgrounds and a number of vineyards (deal with kids they get what they want if we get what we want :-)). One place in the small town is a very old bank which was converted to a wine tasting place. 56 wines and several local gins. After hammering the various pinots and an enforced break to a kids playground nextdoor I got a free pass sans kids to try out the gins. The name Reid + Reid comes from the fact it is two brothers who set up the operation. Very 2 dimensional - Pepper and juniper. Not unbalanced but not that intriguing. Sadly they only had FeverTree not East Imperial tonic. The former being IMHO a quite light slightly artificial tasting tonic compared to the rich robustness of EE.