Tastes
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Larceny on the whole comes across as pretty light and bright for a bourbon. Only some amount of rather freshly cut wood in the nose, hints of maple syrup. Flavor also very light with only some woodiness and sweetness floating around as well as a quick burst of white wine when swallowing. With coke it seems to cancel out some of the sweetness, making for an overall light and weirdly muddled impression of less sweet coke with the slightest amount of wood and some white wine acidity.
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Still carries Old No.7's astringent character that I found absolutely vile when I tasted it, just more muted and veiled with a woodier baseline and hints of red fruits, cherry and sherry or portwine in both nose and flavor. The acidity however sort of resurfaces with coke, still making for an entirely mixed overall impression.
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Nose comes across like cereal, but also a little spicy and ethanoly, after airing out also hints of vanilla and apple or pear freshness. Sip initially with a hint of charred wood, but immediately after swallowing intense apple and acidity, almost like stomach acid or barfing apple schnapps back up. Truly vile. The impression fades as quickly as it comes. With coke it's more rounded with hints of vanilla and wood but an ever-present astringent off-taste.
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Nose initially just woody and charred, after airing out also a little vanilla and brown sugar or maple syrup and perhaps even a hint of fresh apple. Flavors sort of replicate the nose but more muddled together and with a mildly woody and charred as well as vanilla and popcorn aftertaste. Loses all nuances with coke, kinda just tastes like licking vanilla coke off a slightly charred piece of applewood. Not great, not terrible, safe enough of a fallback.
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Wajos have been a little bit of a mixed bag for me in the past, never outstanding or terrible, always just sorta mediocre to okay, but their Christmas Gin is a rather well made composition of red fruit tea and baking spice notes (cinnamon, vanilla, cardamom) in the nose, though the baking spices tend to take over the fruit tea both neat and with tonic. Might be worth experimenting with adding a dash of a sloe gin, red fruit gin, red fruit liqueur or actual red fruit tea for serving.
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Very tasty, delicate, balanced, refined nose of light juniper, fruity grapes, fresh herbs and a hint of flowers, unfortunately a little too stingy for neat enjoyment, tonic largely washes out the fragile profile. Would've liked to recommend it either neat or with tonic purely by how nice the nose is, but alas I can't.
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Inspired by and (besides juniper berries) featuring the seven botanicals found in "green sauce" from the Frankfurt region of Germany, this gin is initially junipery, then full of freshness and kitchen herbs, though more so vegetal and freshly harvested than savoury or dried. I don't have a reference for how closely it matches the sauce but it stands on its own as being unique and interesting.
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Lightly junipery with hints of cocoa in the nose, neat palate almost disappearingly light on the cocoa which is pronounced more by tonic but also put at odds with the tonic's tartness. Elephant Orange & Cocoa Gin offers a better balanced and actually more affordable alternative even though Elephant isn't a budget brand to begin with.
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