Archie Rose Signature Dry Gin

Nose: Delicate and crisp with a focus on citrus and pine. Slight minerality. Palate: A nice sweet juniper up front with some spicy pepper notes and a brisk texture. It's a delicate and well balanced palate. Finish: Short. Well balanced, and with a light lingering spiciness. Archie Rose uses a core of traditional gin ingredients for the Signature Dry Gin but they also include native Australian botanicals including Dorrigo pepper, lemon myrtle, river mint and blood lime. These are not particularly unusual in taste and generally approximate the aromas of other gins, but they are just different enough to impart individuality. I've tasted this at the distillery in several contexts - neat, over ice, in a G&T made with Fever Tree Premium and in one made with Fever Tree Aromatic. I've also had it at home in G&Ts and cocktails and in all cases it was refreshing and enjoyable. This gin is not produced as a single maceration nor as a one-pass vapor infusion (which is why it can't be called a London Dry gin because use of that term requires the one-pass process). Instead it is compounded from separately produced botanical infusions. Some are cold macerations and others are one-pass distillation runs. For example, they produce a batch of spirit containing only juniper, then one containing only orange peel, then one containing only cardamom, etc. These batches of botanical spirit are then combined as required to produce the gin. In the case of this Signature Dry Gin, which is a core range product, the process creates a pleasant gin that is very well made but also rather average in profile. It is clearly formulated to have appeal to as wide a market as possible, which is good business practice, but it does result in a gin that is rather, well, “generic”. "Above Average" : 80/100 (3 stars)

A traditional clean gin. Perfect G & T