I like the bottle art, label, and colors involved with this gin, and that was enough for me to sample a 50ml bottle. A good gin benefits from both a healthy amount of juniper, as well as a good combination of botanicals. It's very rare to find a gin that does both, but if it does one or the other, I find it's almost always the botanicals, and the juniper is left weak. So knowing that this is strong juniper and few botanicals is interesting, and somewhat rare, so I'm excited to dive in.
Juniper and lemon peel are easily the first detected on the nose, but the juniper is not overpowering. There's also a healthy scent of floral flavors, with nothing specific detected.
A slight cereal note is the first flavor I get, along with the floral scent, all riding on a healthy lemon peel and oil flavor. The juniper is here, but actually slightly weak indeed. The finish is weak, watery, and sweet, but a very slight ethanol burn does help alleviate this.
The floral notes are accurate here, but the only reason one would call this a "juniper-heavy" gin is if they've never had a gin before. The juniper is prominent in this gin because there are so few ingredients; this distillery seems to pride itself on it's regional and national ingredient quality, so quality over quantity would be the idea here. And although this does have a quality taste, it's very lacking in a lot of regions (low proof, low botanical count, low juniper amount, etc), so unless you wanted to collect gins from around the world, there really isn't anything significant to this one.
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