Gin > Alcohol Volume 47%

Gin, a spirit that resurge strongly

The gin, that classic spirit that never get old fashioned. Fresh, with variety and a lot of arinas and flavours, is the princess of the party, the queen of cocktail bar.

Always served in its snifter so the aromas of your favourite gin will be more appreciated and with a lot of ice, it attract the looks of people around it, specially when it comes accompanied with botanicals or spices that make shine the gin drinking glass yet more.

The gin highligth too because of it great aromatic variety, that which give it its different components although juniper berries flavour always stays.

We can find different typologies of gin:

• - Jenever
• - London Dry
• - Schwarzwald
• - Strawberries ones

And inside of every one there are varieties of Premium and Ultra Premium gins

Composition of Gin

Looking at the composition of the gin, its a must say that it's a schnapps that is gotten by the destillation of barley not germinated with malt, rectified with juniper berries and with a variety of aromas depending of the manufacturer, although the common ones are cardamom, orange peel or angelica.

Generally, its alcoholic volume vary between 37 and 47 degrees.

Flavour of Gin

The flavour of gin is bitter, due to the alcoholic volume but also becouse of the differents botanicals that aromatize the gin.

Furthermore, in its classic cocktail, the Gin-tonic, gin gets expanded its flavours with distinct seasonings that add something more than ornate the drinking glass: cucumber, cardamom, lyophilized strawberry, licorice and a long etc of supplements that diversify yet more the flavour of the gin.

Cocktails with Gin

Gin-tonic is the gin cocktail by excellence. However there are other gin cocktails that maybe aren't as knowed as gin-tonic but that deserve you give a glance to them:

• - Tom Collins
• - Negroni
• - Gimlet
• - Strawberry Gin fresa with Seven Up

• - Gin fresa con Seven Up

Gin Manufacturers

• - Puerto de Indias
• - Nordes
• - Martin Miller’s
• - Bruni Collins
• - Wint & Lila
• - Bulldog
• - Bombay
• - Brockmans
• - Rives
• - Tanqueray
• - Mombasa
• - Larios
• - G’Vine

Curiosities of Gin

When we say that gin is a classic beverage, it's because, among other things, the first gins are form Holland in the XVI century, almost nothing!