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• 1.5 oz gin
• 0.5 oz dry vermouth
• 2 dashes The Japanese Bitters Umami Bitters (or to taste)
• Garnish: cocktail olives or pickled mushroom (optional)
Spinnakers small batch spirits are distilled in their seaside distillery. Made with 100% BC grown malted grains and water from their on-site artesian well.
308 Catherine Street, Victoria
250-386-2739
Spinnakers.com
• Spinnakers Classic Vodka
• Spinnakers London Dry Gin,
• Au Currant Crème de Cassis
• Chocoholic Crème de Cacao
• Cranberry Gin
• Pink Grapefruit Gin
This Vancouver Island distillery makes gin and vodka sourced from 100% Alberta wheat.
4A-4715 Trans-Canada Highway, Whippletree Junction, Duncan
250-213-8476
GoldstreamDistillery.com
• Goldstream Vodka
• Goldstream Gin
ClearCut Distilling Company takes the wine from their winery, SoundEnd Farm Winery, and distills it into spirits.
319 Sutil Road, Quadra Island
250-285-2257
SouthEnd.ca/Distillery
• Botanically Incorrect Gin
The Indigenous-owned winery now also crafts vodka and gin infused with a combination of locally foraged botanicals, including rose hips, lavender, milk thistle, sorrel, borage and black lace elderberry—many of which were traditionally used as medicines by the local Indigenous Peoples.
2218 Horizon Dr., Kelowna
250-769-2824
IndigenousWorldWinery.com
• Vodka
• Gin
Plenty a tall tale has crossed the polished oak; after all, bartenders like to dish out lively anecdotes along with the gin and spiced nuts. But when it comes to boozy myths, legends, outright lies and wholesale whoppers, “more cling to the Martini than any other cocktail.”
So writes Robert Simonson in his IACP-nominated book The Martini Cocktail (Ten Speed Press). He is fascinated by the outsize role the Martini has played in popular culture ever since its invention in 1849, or maybe it was the 1880s, or possibly 1906, who knows?
• 1.5 oz Plymouth gin
• 1.5 oz dry vermouth, preferably Noilly Prat
• 2 dashes orange bitters
• 2 dashes maraschino liqueur
• 2 dashes absinthe
• Garnish: olive
• 2.5 oz London dry gin
• 0.25 to 0.5 oz dry vermouth
• Garnish: lemon peel twist or olives
Bespoke Spirits House is a natural progression in the career of owner and distiller Shelly Heppner. Inherently creative, Shelly has always gravitated toward a medium of expression, whether it has been designing functional home décor, making her best-selling martini picks, or taking up the art of distilling.
425 Stanford Ave., Parksville
BespokeSpiritsHouse.com
• Virtue Vodka
• Jezebel Gin
A family-run boutique craft distillery on Bowen Island, they handcraft vodka, gin and whisky from local organic ingredients.
441 Bowen Island Trunk Rd., Bowen Island
778-895-9622
CopperSpirit.ca
• The new Copper Spirit Distillery is making organic liquor on Bowen Island
• Presence Vodka
• Harmony Dry Gin
• Verity Rye Spirit