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.