Esmé Gin

Simple straight gin. Smooth and enjoyable R: No distinct smell. J: Citrus and zesty smell. Airy quality, summery

Nose - juniper, lemon and orange zest, rose, vanilla icing, floral notes, lavender, mild ethanol burn. Taste - juniper, lemon zest, rose, sweet floral notes, cucumber, black pepper, mild to moderate alcohol bite, finishing fast with juniper, bitter citrus, and pepper flavors. This is very average. It tastes like a classic London Dry Gin, but the flavors are muddled and generally difficult to discern. I like this a bit better than the GW Goodwynn and Bombay Sapphire, but not as much as Beefeater and Tanqueray, so I’ll give it an average rating.

My favorite!

Rating: 14/23 This is more floral and less traditional tasting than Regent. It's balanced and delicate, though the sweetness can be a bit much and exacerbate some element of 5he alcohol flavor a tad, making it taste just the slightest fraction like Dial dish soap. I still generally like this and I would say that it's better than the Esmé vodka, but I'm not sure I like it as much as before. Still, it's pretty enjoyable, though a very situational gin. Green house gin is far more fruity and floral, with lots of green apple coming through rather than just tasting like roses, making it more opinionated and therefore perhaps less versatile but more suited to specific fruity gin drinks. Green house is smoother with a more mature sweetness and subtle fruitiness to it. It's very sweet, but it does a good job of executing the fruity floral gin profile. I think I'd take it over Esmé.

There's a hair of floral make, but it's otherwise shockingly light. The palate is super floral with some bitter pine balancing it out. It's light and not at all traditional, but it actually really works. Wow, it's sure fun to take a break and taste the roses here. This would be very risky to use for mixing given its flavor profile, but it's quite enjoyable to sip. I'm actually not sure what it would be good to mix in unfortunately, but that doesn't make it less good of a gin. It's smooth, though it can't hide its harshness behind alleged spices since there's no spice flavor. But it does have the pine and that's a bit spicy, so it really does help here. If say that this is a tad better than the Esmé vodka. Quite nice! OK, there actually is a little prickly spice here too. There's a nice clean spring water flavor hiding under the floral flavors, sweetness, and pine.