distilled from sustainably sourced botanicals. Forest-driven and earthy, Terroir is a profoundly aromatic gin with a real sense of place.
Wonderful on their own, but as a set of three—a mini gin tasting flight, if you will—they illustrate the distillers’ artistry and sense of expression, and display the potential for craft distillers to put their own personal stamp of their spirits.
We’ve often wondered if they could (or would) stay on the right side of this progressive attitude or whether they would eventually create something that took it too far outside the realms people would be used to.
Sure, provenance has become king in the years since St George emerged and each distillery’s locality brings different offerings.
The Dry Rye Gin has a recognisably typical gin profile on a whiskey base, where as the Terroir and the Botanivore are completely unusual gins. Der Botanivore Gin aus den USA ist sehr komplex und zugleich fein aufeinander abgestimmt. It’s not Aquavit nor Absinthe by any stretch of the imagination, but there’s more than just an impression of both and those who love one would no doubt find a familiar enjoyment in the other. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.
Need we say more? Hierbei wird Gin mit Tonic Water vermengt und eiskalt getrunken.
A London dry? Copyright © 2020 Master of Malt. Please enter your details to make it easier for us to help you further. Bottle/Rating Data. A handful to manage each time they distil it, no doubt, and one that promises all sorts of savoury goodness.
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To say that St. George Spirits has been busy would be a grand understatement, but while an awful lot of work has been done, and a lot of experimentation with it, all of the products produced have been of great quality. St. George California Reserve Apple Brandy (2019 Edition).
The gin has a vibrant botanical bouquet from first sniff to last sip. The three new gins: Terroir, Botanivore, and Dry Rye Photo: Grub Street. While others have created home town gins with equal aplomb, we feel it was St George that set the benchmark for what it meant to truly imbue a sense of place in a bottle and in many way, still do.
1, Tanqueray, Bombay Sapphire, Monkey 47, Gin Mare, Gin Sul und Hendricks Gin. Once completely bonkers as an idea, this once alien flavour still marks you with its alternative point of view, but it’s one that many will now have heard elsewhere and not be entirely freaked out by any longer. An ode to the wild beauty of the Golden State.
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The team took the malty, spicy Dry Rye Gin and rested it in French and American oak wine casks for a year and a half. Please click here for more details. Botanivore, our “botanical eater,” is comprised of 19 different botanicals working in concert.
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Fresh bay laurel leaves and juniper berries are vapour infused in a botanical basket, along with other botanicals which go in the pot of their 1,500lt still as part of a thirst distillate. Characters come and go; it’s elusive yet enticing, with its central protagonist (in this case juniper) staying the par. Receive 10% off on Gin Kiosk when you sign up too! So far, so good and they’ve stayed true to the their ideals and not just ploughed on releasing gin after gin. Describing the design process, Winters explained: “While it’s the spirit in the bottle that we really want to stand out and be the show stopper, the bottle has to grab your attention and hold it long enough to get you to the inside. Once you decide what flavors you’re looking for the next obvious question is, what gin do you use? They come from a place of deep respect for the category, and while many of those that came afterwards have tripped into folly, St George Spirits remains the bar at which to aim. The three new gins: Terroir, Botanivore, and Dry Rye Photo: Grub Street. If you’re a fan of Tanqueray’s standard offering, this will remind you of that, but zestier. Die Firma, die den Gin destilliert, nämlich St. George Spirits gilt schon länger als Vorreiter in Sachen handwerklich produzierte Spirituosen. St. George was even polite enough to leave a lingering burn afterwards.
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The Terroir, for example, shows the California grizzly bear, but wearing a cowbell as an homage to our absinthe label. We absolutely adore them, so without further ado, let’s get stuck in!
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These are helped along by a handful of others, the result of which culminates in a flavour that the team at St. George’s Spirits calls an ‘ode to the Golden State’. Mellow fennel and other green notes left a mild astringent feeling in the mouth, but it’s not overwhelmingly pine-y. An American craft gin with 19 different botanicals, including angelica root, bay laurel, "cilantro" (coriander to you and me), Seville orange peel, star anise and juniper berries, among others.
— GQ, One of the best gins you’ll ever taste. Other than the juniper, Greenhook uses cinnamon, galangal, elderberry, coriander, elderflower, chamomile, lemon peel, sweet orange peel, and orris root.
The still is run the morning after, with the macerated spirit vapour infusing the contents of the basket on the way up.
“We’re about the furthest thing from an overnight success that anyone could possible be,” Winters told us.
The result yields a run of 800 bottles per batch once cut down to 45% ABV. Clearly, we’re fans and we can’t wait to see their future endeavours – gin or other! Article originally published by Pat Evans on June 12, 2017. Terroir Gin, Botanivore Gin, and Dry Rye Gin are all excellent options for your home bar.
All rights reserved. After a quick citrus flush, and a fleeting piny juniper, dill, fennel and ginger provide a slightly dank herbal backdrop on the finish, with mentholic caraway, verdant bay laurel and a cheeky twist of cracked pepper return in what could easily pass as a Scandinavian Gin.