Tastes

One of my favourites, Hendrick's delivers on both taste and smell. The smoothness is right there as well - there is no harshness to it at all, but a slight welcoming tanginess tells you that you'd better be cautious about indulging yourself just a tad too much. The botanicals work beautifully to create a round taste that excites your sensory just the right amount.

The smell does not reveal much apart from a welcoming breath of junipers transporting you directly to grasslands filled with ripe juniper bushes. The taste however does reveal an interesting blend of botanicals. There is nothing special about it - it's a proper london dry. I would have to be pressed hard to distinguish it from other quality gins. Listening to Learning to Fly, the high hopes of putting Old Pilot's in my exquisite list turned to a slight disappointment on this front. I would still recommend it. Not as smooth as high quality plum rakija, but does the job.

Juniper is nicely present in the smell, but the taste is almost void of it. The taste is lacking as well - the promised freshness of mandarins is nowhere to be found, and the rest of botanicals are drowned in the taste reminiscent of a very cheap vodka. Very harsh on the throat.