Nordes Atlantic Galician Gin, 70 cl (1 bottle)

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This product is hand packed onsite by Bottled and Boxed, and is not affiliated with any other brand. A pixelated world map with Galicia highlighted, makes for a simple but unique concept, placing further focus on the provenance of their gin. If there is a gin this vaguely reminds of it’s Monkey 47 , not because they taste so much alike, but because they are both remarkably hard to pin down. To create that Galacian spirit they needed Galician flavors to do that they started with something they most understood. The name comes from the north wind that signals the coming of good weather to the people of Galicia.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Located in the northwest of Spain, they set out to to capture the freshness of the the Atlantic Ocean in every bottle. To create a gin of true provenance, every aspect needs to speak to the region and Nordés complete their Galician gin with striking packaging. At first I thought maybe this was floral enough to be considered a floral gin, but the more I drank it the more I became convinced that this isn’t a floral gin, despite the handful of floral notes that were there.Perhaps that has a bit to do with its origin, as Nordes is the brainchild of three different spirit professionals, a sommelier, a master distiller, and a wine merchant.

Nordés Atlantic Galician Gin is a rather intriguing Spanish gin made with an Albariño-grape-based spirit, rather than your more commonly seen grain-based spirit, along with 12 botanicals including lemon peels, hibiscus, liquorice and eucalyptus. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Spanish are catching up to us Brits when it comes to there love for gin, so if you haven’t tried any of the Spanish gin offerings, Nordes Atlantic Galician Gin is a great place to start.On its own, it’s delicious served up over ice and gently sipped, but if you’re insistent on mixing, it’s lovely with tonic, blended up in to a variety of summery cocktails, and even served up with a fresh edible flower in the chicest of martinis. We use ice packs and thermal packaging to keep your food products cold in transit and use extra ice packs during warm weather. These are sage, laurel, verbena herb, eucalyptus and peppermint, glasswort, juniper, ginger, cardamom, hibiscus flower and black tea. In the event that the products become spoiled and unfit for consumption as a result of leaving the parcel outside at your request neither we, nor APC shall have any liability to you for any loss as a result.

I personally now drink it stone fruit such as sliced nectarine (thanks to Olivier Ward from Spirits Beacon for the latter suggestion! Discover the origin of one of the very best gins, made using a perfect combination of ingredients to achieve a fresh, aromatic and well-balanced flavour.To taste, the flavour journey isn’t much of a journey at all – more a big hit on the taste buds that continues through the palate and finish. The General Wine Company sources wines from all over the world, but with a particular focus on small, independent producers. These ceramics are distinctive because of the uniqueness of their designs and the use of white and blue colours. It is not until the second moment that flavors of grape and wild berries develop in the mouth - a quality I appreciate most in Nordés.

The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. With tonic, the journey is lengthened a little but the flavours aren’t much different from when tasted neat. A rather intriguing Spanish gin made with an Albariño-grape-based spirit, rather than your more commonly seen grain-based spirit, along with 12 botanicals including lemon peels, hibiscus, liquorice and eucalyptus.

It features a world map, compass rose and all, with a red arrow coming in from the north Atlantic and pointing into Galicia, designed to mimic the route of the Nordes wind. A white wine grape, the Albarino (aka the Cainho Branco), which grows plentifully in Galicia, and is traditionally used to make brandy. While I really like this gin and i do think it’s nice on the rocks and in gin and tonics (and variations thereof) I think this gin fell flat in a traditional martini. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.