Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, 70cl

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Fresh lemon zest highlights a subtle herbaceous, sagey juniper with the slightest hint of green tea and meadowsweet. Throughout the year, you’ll see beautiful gift boxes with various offerings and limited edition bottle designs. Then, vapor-infused botanicals go into the mix, and here’s where it gets weird: Chinese lemon, Oriental grapefruit, Kaffir lime, and gunpowder tea.

The Copeland Gin folks have created a Navy strength, cask-aged gin named after John Paul Jones, a well-known naval commander from the American Revolutionary War. The “gunpowder” in the Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin name refers to Chinese gunpowder green tea, one of the four botanicals that are vapor-distilled into the gin (after it’s been pot-distilled with eight others). Nor is that just token eclecticism; Drumshanbo is about bringing the journey home, quite literally bottling the fruits of discovery of a curious mind.It also gives great results lending its tea flavor in popular cocktails like the Negroni, the French 75, the Tuxedo and the Bramble. Following Glendalough's seasonal gins, the Ireland-based distillers have released a gin for all seasons! It’s all quite unexpected, but the gin is never short of engaging — and I daresay it’s a versatile operator, too. Meadowsweet lends a delicate floral sweetness to the overall bouquet, complementing the green tea notes. We love the Drumshanbo gin bottle and think it looks a bit like an upturned art deco lampshade (if you squint a bit and imagine it naked, sans labels).

For the final botanical bouquet, Rigney chose 12 botanicals, fruits, and spices, including the aforementioned green tea as well as ingredients like Moroccan orris root, Indian cardamom, and Macedonian juniper.Rigney combines vapor distillation of fresh Chinese lemons, kaffir limes, and Oriental grapefruits, along with the intriguing gunpowder tea, with the pot-still distillation of eight other botanicals ranging from Chinese star anise to local Drumshanbo meadowsweet. Relax and enjoy yourself over a hot or cold beverage, and keep an eye out for the elusive namesake of the café, the Drumshanbo Jackalope. Satisfy your ‘Curious Mind’ and follow Explore Your Pour for Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin inspired cocktails and more!

That’s a good thing too, because we’re already fighting over who gets to keep the empty bottles from our tastings. Gunpowder’s distinct tea flavor is a natural good pairing with fruit jams straight from your fridge. Drumshanbo Irish Gunpowder Gin has a fresh, herby, citrus heavy aroma with notes of green tea and star anise.It was a and hot and humid evening and the light yet flavourful gin with tonic and kalamatazi lime was the perfect drink . N. spice cabinet, Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin throws in one more highly local ingredient: meadowsweet from the town of Drumshanbo itself.

Grapefruit, is the initial flavor followed by juniper then tea, finishing with herby, warm spices of anise, cardamom and coriander.I would never use it for a Martini, because I love the classic very dry Bombay or Tanqueray Martini — pour a little vermouth in the glass, swirl it around, and pour it out before adding the gin. If you know your buddy is a big Dingle Original Gin fan, get them this marvellous Dingle Original Gin Gift Set! Fortunately, Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin is as much a passion project as it is a plucky young Irish gin brand. He created The Shed Distillery of PJ Rigney, with its medieval copper pot stills, and began a quest to fuse oriental botanicals with the local Irish ones. Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin is a product of The Shed Distillery, a boutique operation in rural Ireland.