Description
Pour this and the first thing you notice is how soft it is. Most gins hit you with a pine-tree wall of juniper. G'Vine glides in instead, rounded and almost grapey, with a whisper of flowers behind the spice. That's because it isn't built from grain like nearly every other gin. It's distilled from grapes. So if you've ever found gin a bit too sharp, this is the one that changes your mind. Build it into a slow Martini or a long, lazy G&T and thank yourself later.
Taste notes
On the nose it's gentle: piney juniper turned right down, a bouquet of vine flower and pot-pourri, then a squeeze of fresh lime zest. Sip it and the texture is the headline. Smooth, soft, slightly grapey from that grape base, with rosewater and lime running through the middle. The spice is the quiet kind: green cardamom, a little liquorice, a curl of black pepper. Right at the end ginger slowly builds and warms, leaving a long, dry, citrus-fresh finish. Floral and grown-up, never perfumey.
