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Chris Fraser: Bluff Distillery Co-Founder on being one of the first NZ distilleries to be inducted into the Gin Guild · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: An award-winning Southland distiller has been the first Kiwi honoured
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  Speaker 1: by a prestigious London guild. Bluff Distillery Gin's co-founder, Chris Fraser,
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  Speaker 1: has been installed as a warden rectifier of the gin
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  Speaker 1: guild in a ceremony so posh the king would be proud.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Fraser, Bluff Distillery co-founder with us live this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Chris.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good, thank you. Hey, congratulations on this award. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's been a couple of weeks since you went
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  Speaker 1: over and received it. Tell us, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: What is it? So yeah, I guess it goes back
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  Speaker 2: a very long time. Distilling's been around for a long
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  Speaker 2: time and back in the days of London history and
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  Speaker 2: world history, guilds were set up to sort of protect industries.
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  Speaker 2: And then about 15 years ago, they added gin into it.
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  Speaker 2: So it's part of the Worshipful Company of Distillers, which
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  Speaker 2: goes back almost 400 years. So it's a pretty amazing
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  Speaker 2: piece of history for distilling. Little old New Zealand to
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  Speaker 2: be part of.
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  Speaker 1: What was the ceremony like?
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  Speaker 2: You wouldn't find anything like it in New Zealand. It
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  Speaker 2: was pretty out there. It was at the Lord Mayor
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  Speaker 2: of London's mansion. She wasn't able to be there, but
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  Speaker 2: her husband was there. Yeah, you were welcome, full dress suit, tuxedos,
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  Speaker 2: very proper, and yeah, quite the ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: What's so good about your gin, Chris?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we just do keep it basic, you know. It's
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  Speaker 2: gin that tastes like gin. Nothing crazy. Gin's had a
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  Speaker 2: pretty wild ride with everybody putting all sorts of things
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  Speaker 2: into it. We just stick to the basics and you
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  Speaker 2: can't go wrong.
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  Speaker 1: What does it cost me? Because you're in about 500
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  Speaker 1: booze shops around the country. You're international.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah, normally between $ 89 and $ 99. We're an ultra-premium gin,
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  Speaker 2: so we're at the top end of town. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you won't regret... getting hold of some of that juice.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Fraser, Bluff Distillery co-founder. Congratulations.
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