Waikino’s Kaimai Distillery has announced the world’s first launch of a range of sugar-free liqueurs.
More than a year in the making, the 11 flavours of liqueurs are dairy-free, fat-free, keto-friendly, low- to no-carbs and sugar-free.
Kaimai Distillery Owner and Head Distiller, Wayne Chowles, and co-distiller, Leah James, designed the range to provide a healthier alternative for the creation of cocktails.
“Being health nuts at heart, we wanted to create a range that gave people a break from sugar-packed drinks,” says James.
“Our Oracle Liqueurs are perfect whether you’re a health warrior, gluten-free guru, keto champion, or just on a health kick. We’ve compromised on sugar, not flavour, so that people can enjoy their favourite cocktail creation, guilt free.”
Flavours include raspberry, coconut, strawberry, lime, pineapple, coffee, chocolate, Irish crème, orange, black forest and hazelnut.
“People love choice and people love cocktails so we realised, that if we wanted to develop a range for the cocktail market, we needed a diverse range of flavours so that most cocktail favourites can now be made with Oracle and there’s a big touch of goodness in every concoction,” says Chowles.
“Whether you are wanting to make a Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri, a Raspberry and Coconut Margarita, a Pina Colada, Brandy Alexander, Espresso Martini or any cocktail creation our Oracle range will deliver divine flavour but without the sugar.”
Keeping the vital distillery process a guarded secret, James says what they can say is that the range uses quality ingredients.
“Whenever something is ‘sugar-free’ consumers obviously want to know what alternatives have been used,” she says. “Traceability and integrity in our distillery crafting is vitally important to us.”
“In our Oracle range we have primarily used Sucralose because it’s widely approved, and we have found it to be the sweetener with the cleanest taste. It’s 600 times sweeter than sugar, but you only need a fraction of a percentage to get the sweetness required and we don’t use Aspartame.”
Kaimai Distillery is already established as an award-winning distillery with their range of gin, moonshine, spiced rum and vodka.
“Kaimai Distillery began as a hobby but it’s absolutely a passion for us now,” says James. “We’ve poured our hearts into this range and now we look forward to seeing what the customers think.”
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