Connection to the New World
The story of Veranda
Named for a reason
The space between things
A veranda is the space between the inside and the outside. It sits between the room and the garden, the house and the wild. You can be home without being inside. You can be out in the world without leaving the building.
That in-between is where the best things happen. Conversations stretch. Drinks get poured. Time slows down enough to notice what's in your glass.
Tonic belongs in that same space. Between the spirit and the citrus. The heat and the ice. The host and the guest. The known and the unknown.
Most modern tonic waters have forgotten where they originally came from.
We went looking
Following the citrus
The mother of all citrus
Our hero ingredient is the pomelo, also known as Citrus Maxima. Botanists believe every citrus fruit you've ever tasted descended from this one. Lemon, lime, orange, mandarin, yuzu, grapefruit — all of them children of the pomelo.
There's an evolutionary tree behind every glass of citrus you've drunk, and the pomelo sits at the root. Building a tonic around it felt like starting at the source.
Made for the gin lover
The mixer matters
Premium gin had a moment, then a decade, then a category. The mixer category mostly didn't keep up. Most tonics still taste like they were designed in a lab to not get in the way.
We think the mixer matters at least as much as the spirit. If three quarters of the drink is the tonic, the tonic should be holding up its end. That's what Veranda is for.
