Monkey 47 Schwarzwald Dry Gin, 50 cl

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Secondly, you can sit down as if to study it and probe the way this myriad of botanicals unravel on your palate. Monkey 47 is one of my favorite gins, I have been drinking it with grapefruit juice, a little rosemary simple syrup and Crude Bitters Rizzo blend. Our Schwarzwald Sloe Gin is distilled in small batches from 47 predominantly unusual but regional botanicals and macerated with wild-growing, handpicked sloe berries from the Black Forest. Sipsmith has been known to use multiple distillation techniques of the same plant material, their botanical number isn’t even that unusual— with several others in the 30+ space.

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The journey and balance of botanicals is subtle but much like an orchestra where each instrument plays its part, the overall effect is a cacophony of sensations. The critique that can be fairly made of this gin is that it might be too contemporary and note enough juniper happening.Palate: Predictably complex, this is a robust and powerful gin with plenty of spice, fruit and herb flavours. I have tried many gins since I became obsessed with gin, and I like both the contemporary gins and the Classic gins. There’s an elegant zing of sharp citrus that cuts back the spignel leaving a spiced nip on the finish with a long red berry and herbal finish.

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I suppose I would have forgiven them if the result had been amazing, but it wasn’t; it was just okay, and honestly a little weird. On botanicals alone, boasting an ostentatious 47, it might be the most complicated gin on the market, but to throw you one more curveball, it’s also built on a base spirit of molasses. Over the duration of 2015, the duo worked with Arnold Holstein, developing a new one-of-a-kind distillery. Oregano and honeysuckle appear fleetingly, like needles in a haystack being shuffled before your very eyes. In total, 47 handpicked plant ingredients prepared in extremely soft water from the Black Forest lend Monkey 47 unrivaled complexity and quality.

Monkey 47, 100 ml Fever Tree Mediterranean tonic over ice garnished with a slice of fresh grapefruit, a strawberry and a raspberry! In short, although the name “Dog” rose implied that some peoples found the plant worthless, its importance in several food cultures tells a story that’s otherwise.

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For that reason, we shouldn’t be mistaken for typical “spirits producers” or “liquor entrepreneurs”; we are schnapps distillers to the core and, like a perfumer, constantly on the hunt for aromas and fragrances. Let us know if we need instructions for where to find your house or want us to leave your wine in the shed! When you come in, you can find your new favourite bottle at our tasting counter, hire glasses, flutes and chiller bins free* and pick up some ice. Southern Germany may seem like a strange place to have a wealth of distilling expertise, but with a history of creating fruit liqueurs and brandies as well as being the home of many coppersmiths experienced in building stills, it remains (despite a now more global craft distilling revolution) probably one of the best places to create a new spirit.Bulgarian peoples have used the hips of the Dog Rose to make wine; it’s an important flavoring addition to the European soda Cockta.

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Mash a ridiculous number of “botanicals” together, pour into a unique bottle and smack a cool label on it. It’s almost as if they set the goal of including 47 botanicals up front, and once they hit about 20 they just started throwing stuff into the pot, whether it helped the flavor profile or not. The Negroni was nice as well, with herbal, spice notes at first, setting the stage for an unctuous, fruity finish. They have continued to apply the combination of macerating some of the botanicals along with vapour infusing others, although they do this now in a slightly different way. I’ll grant you that; however, as for fans of contemporary style gins will likely find a new best friend here.The idea behind the D istillers Cut is to harness the inherent Monkey 47 flavour profile and accentuate a certain aspect of it by adding a signature (more dominant) new botanical to the line up, which they refer to as their “species rara”.