Broken Heart

Broken Heart is a small batch gin distillery based near Queenstown, founded by German born pilot Joerg Henkenhaf and engineer Bernd Schnabel after years spent developing their recipe together. When Schnabel died of cancer in 2012, Henkenhaf named the finished gin Broken Heart as a tribute, releasing the first bottle later that year. The distillery draws its water from a large aquifer near Glenorchy, in the shadow of the Southern Alps, and still hand bottles everything on site, one of the more personal stories behind Easy Tiger's wider gin selection.

That local focus carries into the gin itself, built around malt and hops as unusual botanicals alongside juniper, ginger, orange blossom, and lavender, a nod to genever's history rather than a typical London Dry base. Everything is distilled in small batches and hand bottled, part of what makes Broken Heart one of the more distinctive names in New Zealand gin.