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News
- Hello and Welcome to Episode 6.
- Absolutely amazed at the response to the podcast.
- Really pleased that so many people have liked it so much.
- Warners have brought back Strawberry and Rose Gin which looks amazing.
Gin Recommendation
- I am going to talk about small batch gin a bit later but I almost see this gin in the same way
- The potatoes are grown on this farm and then turned into vodka.
- The vodka has 10 botanicals added to it, in their still Ginny, and it becomes Chase GB gin from the Chase Distillery.
- This is a London Dry gin category and is one of the smoothest gins that I have tasted.
- Be careful though it has a very delicate taste and would work with a standard tonic or Fever Tree Mediterranean but not in my opinion with an Elderflower or Blood Orange.
- It may possibly work with a Cucumber tonic.
- It comes with a bow tie and has a proud place on my gin shelf.
Story Time
- Let me let you into a little story
- I have been seeing lots of amazing posts by the pit wheel distillery on Instagram
- So I decided to get in touch and I got such a nice response I thought do you know what I am going to try them
- I am a novice at purchasing small batch gin so I did what I normally do and looked in my local supermarket
- If I can’t find it there I go to my friend Amazon
- Pitwheel gin is not available there either
- So I go directly to their site and sure enough there is gin available
Great Customer Service
- Now here is the best bit I order it and 21:52 on Thursday and get told it will arrive no later than Tuesday
- On Saturday I get the parcel I was expecting on Tuesday.
- Suddenly ordering on the website does not seem to be such a bad idea
- I like over delivering customer service
- In the box are three nicely pack gins in straw and each with their own bubble wrap
- I unwrap them
- Classic Dry Gin
- Original Spiced Gin
- Raspberry and Vanilla Gin, the one I really want to try
Last Saturday Night
- So I sit down on Saturday.
- Just about to go for the raspberry and vanilla gin
- I think to myself do you know what I will dry the classic dry gin
- I suspect it will be like all the other London Dry gins I have tasted in the past so I might as well get the disappointing one out of the way first
Classic Dry Gin
- WOW
- So smooth with almost a very, very slight taste of parma violet.
- If you are looking at getting into small batch gin this is definitely worth a first purchase.
Original Spiced Gin
- OK well that was unexpected so I thought long and hard.
- I still had half of the Fever Tree Mediterranean tonic left
- I decided to go for Original Spice instead of Raspberry and Vanilla.
- Tasted and waited for the spice to hit my palette
- Was thinking it might be the same strength as Opihr gin
- What I got was a beautiful smooth tasting dry gin with a very subtle spice flavour.
- Nothing...