There is a global lemon shortage, due in part to Covid-19, and it could mean some necessary changes for gin drinkers.
Dunedin gin bar Zanzibar is known from having a wide variety of gins on offer. Proprietor Shane Simpson said while the cost of lemons has gone up, "we've just got limes back in stock, and they're currently around $50 a kg".
The New Zealand citrus season is many months away, and American growers have been hit with a labour shortage due to Covid-19.
That is not the only reason very few fruit are getting through to New Zealand, Simpson said.
"Containers from California need to be fumigated [for pests] and lemons don't handle that particularly well, so the shippers aren't wanting to send lemons over, because they'll be spoiling," he said.
