Nose: Dusky floral and berry aromas. Rose-hip, wine gums, cherry flavour gummy bears, raspberry rope candy. Palate: Very sweet, but not syrupy. Fruity like a berry-flavoured cough mixture, but without any of the awful artificial flavourings or colour. It's a full-on adult berry cordial. Finish: Short. You taste the berries strongly in the aftertaste. You could argue whether this is actually more a liqueur than a gin, but it’s as much a gin as any sloe gin I’ve tasted, it has juniper and other botanicals in the formula, it's produced by steeping fruit in the gin, and there is no added sugar. So yes, let's go with gin. Knocklofty is a micro-distillery in Hobart run by three couples. Everything is made at the distillery including the base spirit which they distill themselves. A typical batch is just 70 bottles and every step of the process is done by hand. They also produce a damson gin and a quince gin in the Garden Gin range. All are thoroughly delightful and have a quality home-made character. The fruit is gathered by hand from local gardens in the area. More power to them. “Above Average” : 80/100 (3 stars)