A flavoured gin for people who are tired of sweet nothings

Kumquats are not subtle.

They’re a feisty, fragrant little citrus fruit. The skin has a sharp bitterness that makes you question whether you really truly like it before immediately going back for another taste to make sure.

Kumquats combine sweetness, acid, tang, and bitter peel in one tiny but mighty fruit. 

And that's why we think they work so well in gin.

Why kumquat rocks in our flavoured gin

Clara Street Kumquat Gin doesn’t try to tame the fruit or turn it into something sweet and adorable. We steep those kumquats for weeks, pulling deep colour and oils into the spirit until the whole thing takes on a luscious thick-cut marmalade character. Somewhere between bright citrus and warm spice.

You can really taste the skins and that's the secret.

Too much flavoured gin slides into sweetness and never crawls back out again. Clara Street keeps hold of all the bitterness and acid lines that make kumquats such an interesting fruit. Then it builds around them with more traditional juniper, aniseed, cinnamon and pepper.

An award-winning flavoured gin

The result picked up Silver at the 2025 Australian Gin Awards and was named Best NSW Flavoured Gin.

The judges talked about “ripe red fruit”, “interesting spice” and “smooth round sweetness”, which pretty much nails the direction this gin takes. There’s richness to it, but it doesn’t feel heavy. The citrus keeps cutting through and the spice hangs around longer than you expect.

What happens in the glass

This versatile flavoured gin transforms depending on how you pour it.

Over ice, it settles down and becomes almost silky. The marmalade side comes forward, the spice softens, and the citrus oils do their work.

Add tonic and it sharpens right back up again. The kumquat tang brightens, the bitterness from the skins becomes more noticeable, and the botanicals still carry clearly through the glass instead of hiding behind the bubbles.

More than just a fruity flavour

You can tell this gin started life as an actual idea rather than a product development exercise. We tasted kumquats and decided the weirdness was too good to ignore. And we tasted and tested, tested and tasted, until the Clara Street Kumquat Gin was perfected.

If your experience of flavoured gin has largely involved sugary disappointment, Clara Street will come as a bit of a revalation. She's definitely more Lady Marmalade than Strawberry Shortcake.