It began at a wedding in 2019 - a few loose words, a fair bit of encouragement, some wild imaginings, and a decent dose of bravado. A copper still followed and Humdinger was born. Humdinger’s resident tinkerer is Andrew Lewis, a professional engineer who obsesses over making each batch of gin smoother than the last, while his better half, Saskia, a technologist by trade and a biologist by training, jazzes things up, adding the spice and enriching the flavour! When they’re not slinging gin, this ingenious couple who dared to dream big are their own general dogsbodies – developing recipes, breaking rules, building, labelling, marketing and making.At Humdinger, our raw products are sourced locally from nature- the seed of coriander, a juniper berry, the root of orris are all part of, the botanical produce we faithfully use in our distillery. For us at Humdinger Gin, we celebrate the unsung hero - the honey bee, by having her on our label. The humble bee is a vital part of our process in producing some of the purest natural gin in the world. Not only are our ingredients kept as pure as possible, so too is the process of making gin. Our signature and most popular gins are our Humdinger Citrus Gin and Humdinger Dry Gin. Both of these were sent off to London to enter in the London Spirits Competition. Both our Dry and Citrus Gins were awarded silver medals, with our Humdinger Dry Gin placing 4th out of all NZ Gins that entered. Our Humdinger Citrus Gin placing 3rd of all citrus gins in the world. We are extremely proud of this achievement and have since added to our collections of gins to include: Burbon Barrel Aged Gin, Pinot Barrel-aged gin, and New Zealand\'s first Sloe Gin.