Becoming a gin-maker was never Sarah Bonoma’s Plan A. Or Plan B. Or even Plan C.
So no one is more surprised than the 39-year-old Brit that she and her American husband Ben co-founded Dancing Sands Distillery, an awardwinning gin distillery in Tākaka.
“If you’d told me 10 years ago I’d be doing this, I would have said you’d had too much gin!” Sarah jokes.
Yet here we are, perched on high stools at Dancing Sands’ cellar door, discussing the finer points of turning Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc into gin, where to forage for mānuka, and why wasabi gin sounds so wrong but tastes so right.
