Gin recommendations?

[HazardO]

Online auction of rare craft gins and mixers as a result of the collapse of "Gin festival Ltd"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45170057
https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/timed/cjm-asset/catalogue-id-cjm10441

 

[Martynt74]

Bought my wife a Blueberry and Vanilla one from Aldi. She said it was excellent

 

[Squid Vicious]

Spotted this and thought I'd give it a try as I quite enjoy some of Suntory Whisky.

It was a nice gin, would drink again... and also packaged up very nicely (it's actually full of Bombay dry gin now )

 

[Bluecube]

Hills and Harbour is great with either a slice of mango or pink grapefruit. It's got a hint of saltiness which I really like.

 

[bJN]

The other half and I have been having a lot of gin over summer! Started with finishing off what little Bombay Sapphire was left and moved on to Hendricks which we've gotten through a lot of!

Currently working through a bottle of Caorunn which is incredibly nice. Also have some flavoured (raspberry, rhubarb and ginger) St Giles which we picked up from a food festival a couple of weeks ago, that was very nice when tasting! Definitely want to try Roku next after this bottle of Caorunn though, for the bottle alone if nothing else!

 

[Robi]

Roku is lovely - definitely recommend it.

I'm keen to try Jinzu next!

 

[taB]

Hills and Harbour is great with either a slice of mango or pink grapefruit. It's got a hint of saltiness which I really like.

Went to the Crafty Distillery (who make Hills & Harbour) when in Galloway recently. Very smart setup and good people. Research and effort they've put in is immense and it's a really well made gin. Also like the salinity in there.

The other half and I have been having a lot of gin over summer! Started with finishing off what little Bombay Sapphire was left and moved on to Hendricks which we've gotten through a lot of!

Currently working through a bottle of Caorunn which is incredibly nice. Also have some flavoured (raspberry, rhubarb and ginger) St Giles which we picked up from a food festival a couple of weeks ago, that was very nice when tasting! Definitely want to try Roku next after this bottle of Caorunn though, for the bottle alone if nothing else!

Nice to see re St Giles, have been approached by them this week as fairly local and will be adding it when I have space.

 

[toasteh]

The other half and I have been having a lot of gin over summer! Started with finishing off what little Bombay Sapphire was left and moved on to Hendricks which we've gotten through a lot of!

Currently working through a bottle of Caorunn which is incredibly nice. Also have some flavoured (raspberry, rhubarb and ginger) St Giles which we picked up from a food festival a couple of weeks ago, that was very nice when tasting! Definitely want to try Roku next after this bottle of Caorunn though, for the bottle alone if nothing else!

The St Giles stuff keeps catching my eye when I'm out and about, will have to pick some up to see what it's like.

 

[katinacooker]

Was out for a work night out the other night and had more than a few Malfy Lemon gin. Nice if you like lemons!

 

[neviditelny]

Anyone tried Aviation American Gin?

 

[glenimp617]

I have a £50 john lewis voucher. Would someone kindly make me a recommendation please

Not keen on the flavoured gin. In fact the worst gin I've tried are the rhubarb and ginger ones.....I love standard plain run of the mill dry gin....unless my arm can be twisted

Guess my selection is thus:

 

[Shadowness]

Rock Rose is very nice, as is the Botanist.

Rock Rose would get my vote though.

 

[john_s]

I’d choose Botanist of those.

 

[Feek]

Off to Silent Pool for a tour today.

 

[randomshenans]

Off to Silent Pool for a tour today.

Nice, should be fun.

I bought a bottle of Malfy gin yesterday. Italian gin with lemon or something. Not tried it yet but sounded nice.

 

[Feek]

It was a great tour, learned all about the production, all the botanicals, the effort that went into getting the recipe correct, etc.

The tour was a raffle prize from work and it came with a nice gift voucher for the shop which I exchanged for this.



As I said in the original post in this thread, before I won the tour, I'd never touched gin before. This prize was the reason I started drinking gin. It was a good prize

 

[randomshenans]

I do like their gin. I have a bottle here.

 

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Two bottles have been delivered here in the last week, both unexpected.

The first was a competition prize and the second a gift from my brother in return for a couple of hi-fi separates he's having from me.



I've not tried either of these but both are supposed to be excellent.

What did you think of the Harris Gin? Im from the Isle of Lewis and did the tour of the distillery last week was actually really good. Basically they are making whisky and only started producing Gin as something to do in the meantime. Its taken off massively beyond their wildest expectations and is providing some jobs and attention for the island as a whole which can only be a good thing.

 

[Feek]

I’ve not opened them yet.

 

[Feek]

Heads up - Monkey 47 is currently £34.05 at Amazon. When the kids bought me my bottle recently, it was nearer forty quid.