Round and lavish initial palate, packed with pomelo and citrus oil. Finishes with a generous hit of ruby red grapefruit zest.
- Producer: East Imperial
- Style: Premium Grapefruit Tonic
- Region: Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
- Volume: 150ml
- Goes with: Premium gins
To create our Grapefruit Tonic East Imperial have taken the South East Asian Pomelo, which delivers a deep rich orange note, and carefully blended this with Ruby Red Grapefruit, resulting in a tonic that delivers the ultimate citrus balance.
With a history stretching back almost 200 years, to the early 1800s and the British Raj in India, a mixture of quinine, sugar and water was concocted as a daily tonic to prevent malaria. The addition of gin, to, among other things, mask the bitter taste of the quinine, was among the Empire’s greatest inventions.
East Imperial was founded on the belief that the heritage and tradition inherent in a classic G&T had been all but lost, with modern tonic water doing nothing for the herbaceous aromas of premium gin, a mixologist’s skills or the drinker’s taste buds.