Larios 12 Premium Gin, 70 cl

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Larios 12 Premium Gin should already be known to many, as it is often to be found in the retail trade. However, this is not a negative feature, as the gin is of high quality and unique in smell and taste. Im Abgang ist der Larios 12 schließlich mild und hat einen Nachhall von würzigem Koriander und erdigen Tönen der Angelikawurzel. Perfekt serviert Net sales of Diageo’s gin brands rose 22% in the year to June 30 across all regions (except north America). In particular, Diageo’s r eady to drink category grew 17%, driven by the Gordon’s premix range, with Gordon’s reporting “double digit” growth driven in part by its flavoured “innovation variants”, namely Gordon’s Pink. The pink-hued variant was launched in 2017 and is flavoured with raspberry, strawberry and redcurrant. This year, it launched a ready-to drink slimline version of its Gordon’s Pink G&T in a can. Its range includes Larios Dry Gin – a 37.5% abv London Dry Gin made with Mediterranean orange and lemon botanicals, and Larios 12 – a 40% abv gin featuring twelve botanicals in a blend of five distillations, enhanced with orange blossom. Jumping on the pink gin trend, in 2016 the brand launched Larios Rosé, a gin infused with strawberries.

Mild und ölig, aber mit einer leichten alkoholischen Schärfe verteilt sich der Gin auf der Zunge und am Gaumen. Er tritt klassisch, mit einem herb harzigen Aroma vom Wacholder und würzigen Anklängen vom Koriander auf. Auch ein Hauch Muskatnuss ist wahrzunehmen. The nose is bright and awash with orange blossoms and coriander. Quite nice, very inviting, and decidedly contemporary. The biggest-selling gin brand in Spain, Larios is owned by drinks behemoth Beam Suntory, and has stormed a path in recent years. Since 2016 it has doubled its volume sales from 1.2m to the 2.48m that it shifts globally today. This particular 200-year-old tale begins with Charles Lamothe, a French wine entrepreneur, and Fernando Jiménez, his Spanish associate, whose partnership led to the establishment of the creatively named Jiménez-Lamothe company. The brandy and wine it produced in its distilleries in Malaga and Manzanares didn’t go unnoticed for long, and gained a very respectable reputation.

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Pernod Ricard reported a successful year in 2019, with sales increasing by 6% to €9.2 billion according to its annual report. Its Seagram’s brand was notable for its continued growth in Europe , in particular Spain and Eastern Europe, as well as sub-Saharan Africa, where Pernod Ricard reported an overall 16% growth in sales across all of its brands, driven by Jameson, Chivas, Ballantine’s and Seagram’s.

In terms of its portfolio, In 2018, the brand launched Beefeater Pink, a gin expression infused with strawberries and targeted at “young millennials”, taking Beefeater London Dry gin as a base. It was the first innovation to be launched by The Gin Hub, a stand-alone entity that brings together three of Pernod Ricard’s gin brands: Beefeater, Plymouth, Seagram’s and Monkey 47, under one roof. Beefeater Pink was followed by the launch of Beefeater Blood Orange in 2019, underlining once more a trend for flavoured gins. Also owned by Pernod Ricard, Beefeater shifted 3.2m cases in 2019, making it Pernod’s biggest gin brand and one of it’s best-selling brands. In 2019, Beefeater reported a 12% increase in organic sales growth, joining the company’s other top growth brands which includes Royal Salute (17%), The Glenlivet (15%) and Malibu (13%). Overall, Beefeater was credited with “very strong growth” across all regions, “in particular in UK, Latin America and Africa Middle-East” over the course of 2019, while “triple digit” sales growth of the brand was reported in Brazil. The name was changed to Larios & Cía, and the Andalusian distillers launched what would come to be known as Larios Dry Gin in 1932. While it was the third marquis of Larios, José Aurelio Larios, who led this innovation, it was not until the glory days of the 1980s that Larios Dry Gin attained its current renown.In January the brand expanded its range of gins with the launch of four liqueurs, designed to give its Bombay Sapphire G&T a “floral or fruit boost”. They come in four flavours – rose, hibiscus, strawberry and raspberry – and are designed to add a pink hue to a mixed drink, which it said would cater to demand for “growing demand for personalisation”. Sein spektakuläres Wachstum erfuhr der Larios Gin aber erst in den 1980er Jahren, als die Longdrinks mit dem Wacholderdestillat stark in Mode kamen. Heute ist der Larios einer der meistgetrunkenen Gins der Welt. Botanicals Der Gin wird ausschließlich aus natürlichen Zutaten in einer 5-fachen Destillation hergestellt. Die Rezeptur des Larios Gins beinhaltet 12 ausgewählte Zutaten. Neben Wacholder gehören noch