Just 45 minutes from the raucous theme parks and gaudy casinos of Queensland's Gold Coast is one of Australia's best-kept secrets and possibly its finest distiller. The Tamborine Mountain Distillery, tel: (61-7) 5545 3452, uses a myriad of organically grown fruits and botanicalssuch as jaboticaba, raspberry, pink grapefruit, wild peppermint, melon and lemon myrtleto make an award-winning range of spirits, sold in hand-painted bottles.
Garrulous owner Michael Ward welcomes visitors like an old friend and explains the distillery's traditional methods (first developed by Benedictine monks). Despite the arrival of truckloads of appreciative tourists who can't seem to...
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