by Tim Forbes | Aug 9, 2019 | Blog, Gin Tasting Notes
Time for another of our brief but informative gin reviews! This week it’s Silent Pool Gin, an independent distillery based in Guildford, Surrey, who began production in 2014. Silent Pool distil their spirit in a Holstein copper potstill powered by a...
by Tim Forbes | Jul 26, 2019 | Blog, Gin Tasting Notes
Time for another review and some more gin tasting notes! This week, we’re looking at Caorunn Gin from the Balmenach distillery in Scotland. Balmenach is another gin producer more famous for its whisky, but with the slight difference that they’re not just making gin...
by Tim Forbes | Jul 12, 2019 | Blog, Gin Tasting Notes
We’re back with another review and tasting notes! This time we’re looking at Cotswolds Dry Gin which, as we reported last week, has just won the London Dry category and the top prize Gin Taste Master Award at the Spirits Business Gin Masters, so what better time to...
by Tim Forbes | Jun 28, 2019 | Blog, Gin Tasting Notes
Time to try another of the new wave of gins! This week it’s Four Pillars from Australia’s Yarra Valley, a region better known for its splendid wines (especially Pinot Noir and Chardonnay). The company made their first crowd-funded batch of gin at the end of 2013, and...
by Tim Forbes | Jun 14, 2019 | Blog, Gin Tasting Notes
Suntory is Japan’s oldest whisky company, owning the historic Yamazaki and Hakushu malt distilleries, as well as the Chita grain distillery. However, the company has many fingers in distilling pies around the world, mainly in whisky – they own several...
by Tim Forbes | May 31, 2019 | Blog, Gin Tasting Notes
At this year’s recently-concluded Gin Weekender at the Oval cricket ground one of the most interesting spirits I tasted was right at the end of the event, when a bottle of Bimber Distillery’s Da Hong Pao Tea Gin was being passed around to keep up the troops’ spirits...
