Gordon's Sloe Gin | 26% vol | 70cl | Crafted from Wild Sloe Berries & Gordon's Gin | Enjoy in a Gin Glass with Tonic | Gin Botanicals with Cassis Sweetness | Flavoured Gin

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Gordon’s London Dry Gin

Made with gin and sloe drupes, a small fruit that has a sharp, sour taste, you can drink sloe gin neat, as a hot toddy, with ice and ginger ale, or even in a shot of Prosecco. Made with their signature London Dry Gin, and a fresh crop of sloes that changes yearly, means that each vintage of Sipsmith Sloe Gin is slightly different - much like a fine Wine! The sloes infuse the Gin for three to four months before bottling, and the result is a not-too-sweet, well balanced Liqueur. So the sloes go into the still along with the rest of the botanicals when creating the Gin, rather than infusing them afterwards. An alternative folk tale says that one should not prick the sloes with a metal fork unless it is made of silver.The Gin takes on the colour and the sugar content from the sloes, resulting in a sweet, berry coloured Liqueur. The quality of the Gin was poor - made with turpentine and all sorts - so adding sloes to it masked the flavour, but was dubbed ‘the poor man’s Port’.

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This gin reminded some of our testers of cherry bakewell, with many enjoying its fresh forest fruit qualities. At the height of the 18th century was the ‘Gin Craze’; a time where consumption of Gin grew rapidly in Britain, and particularly in London, when it’s said that the average Brit was drinking 14 gallons of the stuff each year. Just before bottling, they add an extra shot of juniper, resulting in a Sloe Gin that’s most definitely Gin-flavoured.Our testers enjoyed the prominent berry flavours, describing it as having a subtle yet complex profile. The Sacred Distillery, based in Highgate in London, produces both excellent quality classic Gin, as well as some slightly unusual ones (Christmas Pudding Gin, anyone? It’s said that sloes are best picked after the first frost, because it splits the skins and makes them easier to infuse in the Gin. You’d be forgiven for thinking that ‘shooting Gins’ are for doing shots in bars, but actually, they were favoured by the British aristocracy for sipping from a hip flask in the countryside when shooting birds and game.