Warner’s Dry Gin
28th April, 2017Coming to us from not all that far away in Northamptonshire is the Harrington Dry Gin, produced by Warner Edwards. Using barley spirit and a selection of eleven botanicals that includes juniper, elderflower and coriander, sourced from farms in England and Wales.
Silent Pool Gin
28th April, 2017Silent Pool Gin is produced on the Albury Estate in the Surrey Hills, right next to the Silent Pool, a beautiful, mysterious spring-fed lake – what a place to create a gin! The gin itself features 24 botanicals, including kaffir lime, chamomile, local honey and lavender, among others, resulting...
Portobello Road Gin
28th April, 2017This gin was released by the award-wining Notting Hill bar, Portobello Star, home of the Ginsitute. This is a place where one can learn an awful lot about gin, so you would expect Portobello Road No. 171 to be rather good, and indeed it is. It’s an old-style London...
Pinkster Gin
28th April, 2017Pinkster, ‘the Agreeably British Gin’, is brought to us by the rather affable Colonel Pinkster! This larger than life fellow is more than happy to take a few moments out of his life of leisure to extoll the virtues of his fair libation! First launched in July 2013, 5...
Hoxton Gin
28th April, 2017A trendy gin, now at 40%, from Gerry Calabrese of the Hoxton Pony, one of the most stylish of London’s style bars. Some very interesting botanicals used including tarragon, iris, grapefruit and, most unusually, coconut.
Hepple Gin
28th April, 2017Hepple Gin is a project between Valentine Warner, Nick Strangeway, Cairbry Hill, Walter Riddell and master distiller Chris Garden. It uses an innovative three-level process for extracting botanical flavours. The heavier ones are distilled with the grain, lighter examples are vacuum distilled, and juniper flavour is extracted using carbon...
Fifty Pounds Gin
28th April, 2017A very handsomely-presented London gin, made by Thames Distillers. Thankfully the product lives up to the stylish packaging – this is excellent stuff.
Chase Seville Marmalade Gin
28th April, 2017Seville Marmalade Gin is carefully crafted by copper pot distilling GB Gin with an abundance of Seville orange peels. Zingy and crisp, mixes perfectly into a Negroni.
Williams Elegant 48 Gin
28th April, 2017A deliciously tasty gin from the highly innovative Williams Chase distillery in Herefordshire. Not content with knocking out the delightful Chase potato vodka, they’ve now bottled this wonderfully fresh (and pleasantly potent) gin, distilled from their own organically grown apples. Bravo!
Brockmans Gin
28th April, 2017Delicious gin from Brockmans. This is made with Bulgarian coriander, blueberries and blackberries as well as bittersweet Valencia orange peels. The result is well balanced and full of flavour.