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Welcome To The Gin Ignite Podcast

Whether you want to party or have a quiet night in gin will ignite

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.

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.
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