Address
After Hours Winery
455 North Jindong Road
North Jindong
6280
Western Australia
Australia
455 North Jindong Road
North Jindong
6280
Western Australia
Australia
Status: Operational
Established: 2010
Visitor Policy: Not generally accessible
Tel: +61 4 2284 4226
Website: http://www.thewestwinds.com
West Winds are made by four Aussies who set out “to create damn fine gin, from Australia.” Their story begins in 2010 at a bar in Balaclava in suburban Melbourne in 2010 when Jason Chan (‘champion’ cocktail bartender), Paul 'The Doctor' White (engineer and distiller), Jeremy 'Jez' Spencer (spirits industry personality) and James Clarke (wine industry expert) first discussed making two gins, “both savoury in character, one at 40% incorporating toasted Australian wattle seed and one at 50% incorporating native Australian bush tomato.”
Just over a year later, in early 2011, the four released the two artisan gins into the market: The Sabre, a London dry gin at 40% and The Cutlass, a stronger 50% gin with kutjera (native bush tomato).
