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Blue Bottle London Dry Gin 47%, 70cl

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Blue Bottle is distilled on the island of Guernsey, using local botanicals from the area (along with the usual London Dry citrus suspects) it does a very good job of taking you on holiday after one sip. If you're going to go to the trouble of making an artisan gin off the coast of France the very least you can do is take your drinker along with you and my, does Blue Bottle do just that. But others see something we laymen and women wouldn’t normally find in the microscope lens: they see beauty.

Aviation's choice of a rye base gives this gin a creamier mouthfeel than most gins. It is a gin that you can enjoy chilled on its own, which is great news for super dry martini fans. Last week, locally-produced Wheadon’s Gin was showcased at the world premiere of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society in London. This gin is rich, warming and all encompassing. It's floral and ever so slightly sweet, a balance which works artfully over just an ice cube if you're so inclined.Now, do you remember what you saw? You’re likely cringing as you think, “I see school work”, all those meticulous notes of what you observed jotted down for teacher assessment and exam studies. We certainly empathise with you! Once a one-bottle brand, Aviation has expanded its portfolio to include Aviation Old Tom. It's the distillery's take on an old, sweeter style of gin, but they don't add sugars or flavorings, which is customary. Instead, they rely on whiskey barrel aging to bring out an Old Tom taste and accentuate the original Aviation's natural sweetness. Le Tribute Gin was designed with the look of an old medicine container in mind. We think it achieves this in a beautiful and very stylish way! The Pump House knows it gin. At last count, this waterside watering hole had over 600 varieties – the largest collection of gin in the south west. Up your gin game at one of their special events or make it your life’s mission to work your way through their impressive gin list. Fynoderee have beautiful bottles for all seasons of the year – at current time of posting it’s October so we’ll go with their Autumn gin!

If you look at the list of botanicals in Bombay Sapphireyou will notice a few differences from other London dry gins. Grains of paradise, almond, and cubeb berries are not your average gin ingredients and they help this bottle stand apart from the crowd.This brings us to my newest drink crush: Gray Whale Gin. Distilled in California by Golden State Distillery, Gray Whale takes us on a wild, windows-down kind of ride down the Pacific Coastline, as each bottle is made with a blend of six sustainably sourced California botanicals: juniper, lime, fir tree, almonds, mint, and sea kelp. We do love a bit of Opihr at the end of a long Monday, but since their new Ready To Drink Range launched this year we have been obsessed. I mean look at these bottles, they’re beautiful! Blue Bottle Gin is the creation of head distiller, Matt, whose interest in Gin and passion for the craft of distilling was rewarded when he was made a Scholar and Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Distillers. Blue Bottle Gin can be found at various bars and restaurants throughout Guernsey. This is the signature gin used to make a Sapphire martinias well as the Sapphire alpine. The two blue martinis use blue curaçao to get that beautiful color, and they're a delight to drink. This is a double-distilled gin produced in a two-stage distillate . Juniper, coriander, angelica, licorice root, cassia bark, Florentine iris, and lime peel are introduced in the first distillation. Bitter orange peel, lemon peel, and lime peel in the second. It is finished with Icelandic glacial water and bottled at a standard 40 percent ABV (80 proof).

We here at ILoveGin are such super fans of Italian brand Malfy … we have featured all four of the gins below in our boxes but we just can’t decide which is our favourite! What do you think?

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stationed in West Berlin. Collins later founded Schwarzwald Dry Gin which became Monkey 47 Gin in 2006! Technically, one could make gin in a matter of hours, but Blue Bottle settles in stainless steel for three weeks before bottling. According to Matt, “There’s some alchemy in storing the gin that I don’t completely understand. The flavours blend and develop much better in those tanks, not unlike a stew which usually tastes better the day after it’s made.”

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