Tag: floral gin
Fruit and Floral Tasting menus
We have two new tasting menus that showcase gins from the floral and fruit categories, flavour styles that are increasingly popular at the moment. Our Fruit / Floral Tasting menu showcases floral and fruit forward gins: Bloom Jasmine & Rose 43% – A new pink gin from Bloom, light and floral with delicate fruit notes. Chamomile …
Gin Review: Poetic License Northern Dry & Old Tom
We’ve been big fans of Poetic License gin since we first became aware of it at the start of this year. Hailing from up north they recently made a trip down to the big smoke and we were fortunate to meet the distiller and discuss the most serious matter of gin. It has to be …
Gin review: Hepple Gin 45% abv
The word on the street is that Hepple Gin will be big this year. We put Hepple on our shelves last year, and we were more than pleased when some of the members of the lovely Hepple team paid us a visit earlier this month. Hepple Gin has much to engage a gin geek and …
Crown Jewel: an unscientific comparison of 1993 vs new 2016 release
We were very interested to discover that gin royalty Desmond Payne at the fabulous Beefeater have re-released Crown Jewel, a gin that was originally created for the duty-free market in 1993. It was launched quite quietly in December and we obtained a supply last week. We were lucky enough to chat to Desmond who explained …
Gin review: Nolet’s Dry gin: Silver
A new gin to us here at the London Gin Club, but far from a new gin in the world of gin given the current distillers (brothers) are the 11th generation of long line of distinguished gin distillers at the Nolet’s distillery in Schiedam, Holland. Bottled at a very satisfying 47.6% the brothers Nolet have …
Gin review: Shortcross
You may have noticed a sudden flurry of gin reviews, this is good news as it means a flurry of fine gins, good times for us all! We currently have Shortcross, a premium Northern Irish gin on our shelves, and on our new tasting menu too. Shortcross is a craft distilled gin that uses wild …
Gin review: Beefeater London Garden exclusive edition
We were privileged enough to be invited to a private guided tour of the brand new Beefeater visitor’s center with the master of gin himself, Desmond Payne. And what a treat this was. The visitor’s center begins with a walk through gin history, coupled with the history of Beefeater and James Burrough. Everything from gin …
