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Limoncello.
Small-batch. Made on the farm. From the peel up.
Small-batch. Made on the farm. From the peel up.
Australian Limoncello, made from Lemonade Fruit.
Most Limoncello in Australia comes from imported concentrate, finished with sugar syrup, and bottled by people who've never seen the tree. Ours comes from 800 trees on a slope in Rosebank, picked the same week it's pressed. The Lemonade Fruit is a hybrid — the sweetness of a mandarin with the punch of a lemon. We don't add sugar. The fruit handles that.
The orchard sits on the south slope of the farm in the rich red soil the Byron hinterland is known for. We planted the first 200 trees in 2016. Today we run 800. Harvest happens in May.
No gas treatment. No wax. No imports. The fruit that goes into the Limoncello is the same fruit you'd buy at the farm gate the same week.
The day fruit comes off the tree, we peel by hand. Only the yellow zest — no white pith. The bitterness lives in the pith and we don't want it.
The peel goes into food-grade alcohol and sits for 30 days. The colour leaves the peel and lives in the spirit. That's where the flavour comes from.
The same week, we press the rest of the fruit. The juice goes in cold to balance the steep. No syrup, no water.
August. Small batches. Numbered. Each year tastes slightly different — the fruit decides.
The bottle improves for a couple of months in the dark. Drink it cold. Pour it over ice. Pair it with tonic if you must.
Next May we start over. Until then, what's bottled is what's bottled.
Where Italian Limoncello leans heavy on the syrup, ours rides on the fruit. Sweeter than you'd expect from a citrus liqueur. Brighter than the supermarket stuff. Punchier than the bottle-shop imports.
Best served straight from the freezer in a small glass. Works in a French 75, a tonic over ice, or a splash on top of vanilla ice cream. See the recipe pack for what Margeaux does with it.
Bottling lands in August. We make small numbered batches each year — once they're gone, they're gone. If you'd like to be first in line, email us with your name and the number of bottles you're after. We'll come back with a confirmation and pickup details before bottling day. Cabin guests get the chance to buy direct from the farm gate. Bulk orders for restaurants, bars, and weddings by arrangement.
Email us with how many bottles you're after and a rough delivery suburb. We'll come back same day with rates and timing.