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The perfect martini begins at the Top End

The perfect martini begins at the Top End

Embrace the outback spirit to become a distiller for a day, with no guarantee of success.

Darwin may not be the first place that springs to mind when it comes to understanding the alchemy behind the perfect martini. But a fashion for using native flora and fauna as botanicals and a craft distilling trend towards bespoke booze may be about to change all that.

Add in a personalised foraging tour that includes a helicopter flight, a zoom around floodplains in an airboat and chugging between giant termite mounds in a cattle-mustering buggy, and the idea takes on a whole new, well, flavour.

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Rohan Sullivan
Rohan SullivanDeputy News DirectorRohan helps runs that national reporting team from Sydney. He was the Financial Review's inaugural newsletter editor and has been a home page editor and desk editor. He is a former foreign correspondent and Asia editor. Connect with Rohan on Twitter. Email Rohan at rohan.sullivan@afr.com

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