Distillery Info
The partnership of Maidenii was borne from two passionate people, Shaun Byrne and Gilles Lapalus, a bartender and a wine maker respectively.
Shaun Byrne returned to Australia after working for 4 years in the UK and became part of the ‘Gin Palace’ establishment in Melbourne.
In 2001, Gilles moved to Australia to become the manager of biodynamic viticulture and winemaking at Sutton Grange Winery near Castlemaine, Victoria. He first started experimenting with botanicals in 2011 and, after meeting Shaun, co-founded Maidenii Vermouth.
Their namesake, Jospeh Maiden was a stalwart champion of the eucalypt and the acacia, which grow gold and green across this vast country. He delved deeply and with joy into the oft-neglected wealth of Australian botanical novelty, finding value and beauty where others saw none.
The rest as they say in the old classics is history.
