Using flowers in gin is tipped as the next big trend for 2017 in gin making, with master distillers at some of the biggest gin brands in the industry putting everything into developing new floral flavours.
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Master Distiller Joanne Moore, the name behind BLOOM gin, said a couple of years back there was a bit of a gap in the market for a floral gin.
That’s why she developed BLOOM and its been a huge success for G&J with tens of thousands of bottles selling in the UK and overseas.
Since then dozens of small batch floral gins have come onto the market using locally foraged flora from British bogs, meadows and hillsides.
Here are 11 of the best floral gins that Metro.co.uk has found.
1) BLOOM Gin
Bloom Gin has Chinese honeysuckle and chamomile from France to give a delicate floral taste to this London Dry spirit. It’s around £20-£24 a bottle.
2) Anno Gin
This Kent gin contains cassia, lavendar and samphire to give both a citrus and floral flavour. Drink with a spring of samphire in the glass. Around £37.50 a bottle.
3) Geranium Gin
This gin, by Dutch gin maker Henrik Hammer, was created in 2010 using the geranium flower to give it a floral sweetness. Some say it tastes of palma violet sweets and rose. Around £28.50 a bottle.
4) Pollination Gin
The gin is made on a ‘micro scale’ with 29 botanicals going into each bottle. All grow wild in the Dyfi valley and are foraged specifically for each batch. There are actually two types of the gin depending on the time of year – pollination for the plants picked in the months leading up to summer and hibernation for over winter. Around £35 a bottle.
5) Minus (-33)
(Minus) -33 is a light and freshing gin with nine botanicals including lavendar and elderflower. Crisp citrus finish from the orange and lemon peels too. Around £30 a bottle
6) Hendrick’s Gin
Most are familiar with this premium gin that has a hint of rose in the flavour as well as cucumber, chamomile and elderflower. Around £30 a bottle.
7) Barentsz gin
This gin has jasmine as one of its key botanicals with almond and cassia bark. the base is both wheat and rye grain giving it a deep roundness as well as being sweet too. Around £35-£37 a bottle.
8) Rock Rose
Rock Rose is all about the Rhodiola Rosea from the cliffs on the Pentland Firth on the Highlands of Scotland. The taste if fres, zesty ad berryful with a smooth finish and botanicals include Rhodiola Rosea and sea buckthorne. Around £33.65 a bottle.
9) Silent Pool
Silent Pool, a gin from Surrey, has 24 botanicals including rose petals, chamomile, lavender and elderflower. It also has cassia bark, cubeb and local honey to give it an earthy spice with a sweet, smooth finish. £35 a bottle.
10) The Botanist
Flora from shores, bogs and the hills of the Isle of Islay have gone into this classic, made in the world’s only Lomond pot still (dubbed ‘ugly Betty’). Ingredients include Apple mint, chamomile, creeping thistle, downy birth, elder, gorse, hawthorn, heather, lady’s bedstraw (whatever that is) lemonbalm, meadowsweet, mugwort, redclover, spearmint, sweet cicely, bog myrtle, tansy. watermint,. white clover, wild thyme and wood sage. Around £33.50 a bottle.
11) Harrington Elderflower Gin
The elderflower for this gin is picked fresh from the hedgerows apparently and then infused with Harrington Dry Gin with a little sugar. £32.95 a bottle.
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