Yesterday at the Canberra Community Chest Race Day, something beautiful took flight — and it carried with it forty years of care, connection and community.
Palliative Care ACT is proud to introduce our Butterfly Pea Botanical Gin, crafted in partnership with Underground Spirits Australia. This small-batch gin has already captured hearts, sparked conversations, and created a moment of pure joy for everyone who gathered around our tasting table.
🛒 Order your bottle or leave a review:
https://www.undergroundspirits.com.au/products/butterfly-pea-botanical-gin
A Gin Inspired by Forty Years of Living Well
For four decades, Palliative Care ACT has supported people to live well — in their homes, in hospitals, in the hospice, in residential aged care, and at Leo’s Place, our respite home:
https://www.leosplace.org.au/
In palliative care, the smallest rituals often hold the greatest meaning.
Every day at 5pm, hospices around the world share a quiet, gentle tradition — the drinks trolley.
A clink of glasses.
A quiet toast.
A reminder that life is for the living.
This gin is inspired by those moments — the ones that lift spirits, spark connection, and offer comfort on even the hardest days.
Transformation in Every Drop
Distilled with blue butterfly pea flower, the gin transforms from deep blue to vibrant violet with the simple squeeze of citrus. It’s visually stunning, but also deeply symbolic.
A life-changing diagnosis shifts a family’s world in an instant.
Yet even in those seasons, there can be transformation, dignity, meaning, and beautiful moments of togetherness.
Our first volunteer newsletter was named “The Butterfly”, chosen for exactly this reason. The butterfly represents change, fragility, resilience, and the grace that lives inside life’s hardest transitions.
Bringing the butterfly to this collaboration feels like a full-circle moment — honouring our beginnings while celebrating the next 40 years of community care.
📰 Read Underground Spirits’ story about the collaboration:
https://www.undergroundspirits.com.au/blogs/news/a-butterfly-in-a-bottle-our-collaboration-with-palliative-care-act
A Launch Day Full of Joy & Generosity
At the Race Day launch, the gin made its debut to a warm and enthusiastic crowd. The colour-changing magic had people gathered around, watching it shift from blue to purple with delight.
There were conversations about care, loss, hope, family, and the everyday beauty of the work we do. Many people shared their own experiences with hospice care or volunteers who had made a difference in their lives.
And of course — many asked how soon they could order a bottle.
🛒 Order or leave a review:
https://www.undergroundspirits.com.au/products/butterfly-pea-botanical-gin
If You’ve Already Tasted It — Your Review Really Matters
If you were one of the people who enjoyed a sample at Canberra Community Chest, we’d be so grateful if you’d leave a review.
A simple review helps in many ways:
- It encourages others to support the project.
- It gives people confidence to order.
- It helps this fundraiser reach more people.
- It boosts the impact of our volunteer and respite services.
- And it lets our team and partners know their work is appreciated.
You can add your review alongside the product listing:
https://www.undergroundspirits.com.au/products/butterfly-pea-botanical-gin
Your words genuinely help this project take flight.
Raising a Glass to What Matters Most
This small-batch gin isn’t about luxury or indulgence — it’s about meaning.
About connection.
About dignity.
About the little rituals that remind us that life is precious.
Every bottle directly supports:
🦋 Our volunteer program
🦋 Community support and education
🦋 Respite services at Leo’s Place
https://www.leosplace.org.au/
Thank you to everyone who tasted, purchased, reviewed, or simply shared their excitement with us.
Your support turns a bottle of gin into something much bigger — a way for our community to care for one another.
Here’s to transformation.
Here’s to 5pm drinks.
Here’s to raising a glass to the moments that make life meaningful.