Five Gins To Try This Week

Whitley Neill Rhubarb & Ginger Gin is made with ten botanicals. In addition to the rhubarb and ginger, other botanicals include juniper, angelica root, cassia bark, coriander seed, lemon, licorice, orris root and sweet orange.

Malfy Gin Con Arancia is made with Sicilian blood oranges peels which are infused with juniper in an Italian grain spirit for 36 hours. Four other botanicals are used in its production. Made at the Torino Distillati just outside Torino by master distillers Beppe Ronco and Denis Muni, it is suggested to serve this gin with tonic, lemonade, or Prosecco. This dark orange-colored gin is bottled at 41% ABV. (SRP $29.99)

Distilled at San Francisco-based Hotaling & Co. (formerly known as Anchor Distilling Co.), this is an aged version of their Genevieve genever-style gin. Genevieve was first introduced in 2007 and is made in the traditional oude genever-style beginning with a mash of wheat, barley, and rye. This barrel-finished version utilizes the distillery's once-used Old Potrero Straight Rye Whiskey barrels. Aged for 33 months, the gin is bottled at 47.3% ABV.

Bobby's Schiedam Dry Gin is an interpretation of creator Sebastiaan's grandfather, Bobby's homemade gin. Born in Indonesia, Bobby immigrated to the Netherlands in the 1950's, but longed for a spirit with the taste of home. So, he began infusing Dutch jenever with Indonesian herbs, thus creating his own gin. In 2012, Sebastiaan traveled to Holland to meet master distiller of Herman Jansen. Together, they created today's version of Bobby's recipe using Indonesian botanicals such as lemongrass, cloves, coriander, cubeb pepper and cinnamon.

Dingle Original Gin is technically a London Dry gin, but its botanicals lean towards a modern style by using rowan berry, fuchsia, bog myrtle, hawthorne, and heather among others. It is made in the distillery's copper pot stills and brought to proof with water from their own well 240 feet below the distillery. Dingle is a town located on the rugged Dingle Peninsula on the west coast of Ireland. The distillery makes whiskey and vodka in addition to the gin. As of late 2018, these three products are available in the US.