G'Vine Floraison 40%

G'Vine floraison pictured by Sofia Miranda

This is a very interesting, sweet fruity gin from the cognac region of France. Of course with gin were not particularly concerned with the terrior, however what is interesting is the base spirit. Not content with the conventional grain base used by many gin's G'Vine uses a high proof spirit, made from the Ugni Blanc grape. G' Vine believe this creates a smoother and more suave canvas on which to paint the delicate complexity of their chosen botanicals.

G'Vine infuse nine whole fruit botanicals in to their neutral grape spirit; juniper berries (of course), ginger root, liquorice, cassia bark, green cardamom, coriander, cubeb berries, nutmeg and lime. In addition to this they also separately infuse the green grape flower, a rare flower which grows on the Ugni Blanc vine for only a few days in June, in their neutral grape spirit. In tern they then blend both distillates with more neutral grape spirit for a final distillation prior to bottling.

The gin has a very sweet, floral nose which cannot stop making me think of pear drops, a little spice comes through courtesy of the nutmeg and cardamom as well as a nice hint of juniper. On the palate the grape flower, or what I imagine to be the flower having not had the pleasure of consuming it, is very dominant with juniper and a hint of lime lingering in the back. It is defiantly not a traditional, juniper heavy style of gin but is none the less very pleasant and easy to drink, bringing something very different and unique to the table. This would make a great introduction to gin for vodka drinkers.

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