Nat Rav – 2020 Bloody Shiraz Negroni

Back in March (when Victorians were still allowed out in public) we were out in the Yarra Valley helping our mates at Payten & Jones pick chardonnay. The team from Four Pillars are always a mainstay of the picking party, and one of their staff asked half-jokingly why we hadn’t done a collaboration yet (to which he didn’t have an answer). A few weeks later we were picking up the spent shiraz skins used to make their latest vintage of Bloody Shiraz Gin – a sloe-gin inspired sweet gin macerated on fresh Yarra Valley Shiraz skins. We knew exactly what we need to do with these skins – make a Negroni