Day 5 - Slingsby Dry London Gin

Today's post comes from a hotel room in Amsterdam where I am staying for a couple of days for work. And the Givent calendar has thrown up another London Dry - this time made by the Harrogate-based Slingsby company. I'm sure I'm not the only person who immediately thinks of Jeeves and Wooster (and Slingsby soups I think it was).

Another rather too fancy website which favours design over information - took me quite a while to find the description below:

The key to making gin is to add flavour through the medium of botanicals. We have carefully selected 24 botanicals both locally and from across the globe. These are synonymous with the beautiful and restorative nature of Harrogate. Our 17 locally-sourced botanicals supplied by Taylors of Harrogate and Rudding Park kitchen garden in Harrogate include: green and jasmine tea, severn sea rosemary, silver posie thyme, citrus thyme, garden thyme, rhubarb, sage, lovage, chervil, nettle and sweet cicely. Our internationally sourced ingredients include:  rose hip, angelica, cassia, orris roots, coriander, liquorice grapefruit and Madagascan juniper.

The gin retails directly from the website at £39.99 for 70cl (£57.12/L) - and comes in a lovely blue bottle (they do also produce a rhubarb gin). The photos seem to suggest that the London Dry should be served with grapefruit - which I am not doing for 2 reasons: being in a hotel (!), but actually more importantly I'm allergic to the fruit!

From the website description it sounds quite complex in its flavouring - I can't say I picked them all out, but there was certainly quite a lot of flavour. A bit bitter to have completely neat - but definitely a gin that needs minimal tonic just to take the edge off.  Quite glad I haven't been trying to give marks out of 10 for these because I would be totally lost - but I don't think this one is particularly my kind of gin (purely subjectively though).

Tomorrow (which I know about because I had to bring it with me) is called smoked and salted  - which is particularly intriguing!