It seems we just can’t get enough of novelty booze. Forget the classics – those pure, unadulterated spirits or single origin wines – this is 2019 and we will drink wine from a can, freeze our rosé or drink ice wine if we want to.

Enter gin wine, the latest hybrid drink that’s splashing into our lives with much aplomb. It was launched by an English vineyard called Chapel Down earlier this year, hot on the heels of the Kent vineyard’s previously released Bacchus Gin and Chardonnay Vodka.

If you’re picturing someone stirring a giant cauldron of wine and gin together, let us clarify: the pinot noir gin was “produced with distilled Pinot Noir grape skins from the Chapel Down harvest and blended with English wheat spirit,” according to the company. So it’s more of an aromatic pink gin replete with red berry aromas and some juniper, coriander, rosebuds, rosehip and citrus creeping in at the end. Phew. That should ease the headache slightly.

If that wasn’t enough, the pink packaging is equally attractive, inching you a step further to social media glory.

The Chapel Down version might not be available in Australia yet but fear not, gin and wine enthusiasts – you can buy it via their website.

And let’s not forget Four Pillars’ Bloody Shiraz Gin: that delicious, purple, sell-out creation made by steeping Yarra Valley shiraz grapes in Four Pillars’ high proof Rare Dry Gin for eight weeks. It’s not made with entirely the same production process as the Chapel Down version but hey, beggars can’t be choosers.