Boë Violet Gin - Flavoured Gin - 70cl - 41.5% ABV

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This drink is really sweet on its own does mean that a lot of people will probably like it when it’s drunk neat. The bitter taste a gin normally offers will be toned down quite a bit. Gin starts out as a neutral grain spirit similar to vodka. After this first distillation, a combination of different botanicals is infused with the clear spirit to create a unique taste pallet. Gin distillers can choose from pretty much any herb, spice, flower, root, etc. they want to create their own distinctive gin.

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Solway Spirits is a small-batch craft distillery located in South West Scotland. They use British suppliers for great quality ingredients. This brand may not be extremely well-known, but their gins are amazing. The perfect serve for this gin would be to add tonic water and ice and garnish with a violet flower. This gin would also work amazing in a spritz if paired with prosecco. Artful Pour Violet Gin To find out which violet gin would be the best for you to try out, it’s important to know what violet gin is exactly. Their base gin, the Yorkshire dry gin, contains hints of sweet orange and floral lavender alongside a spicy, piney juniper. These notes translate very well to their violet gin. The first gin on the list is the violet gin from J.J. Whitley. J.J. Whitley is a brand that is well-known for making flavored gins and vodkas. The Whitley family has been distilling these spirits since 1762, so they’re bound to have a ton of experience.

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Aside from that, gin distillers are free to add anything they’d like. If you’re interested in an explanation of the most commonly used botanicals, we’ve written a whole article about that right here. Zymurgorium prides itself on experimenting with flavors and striving for great new tastes in all sorts of drinks and food products. These products range from cheeses to syrups, to crafty beers and gins.

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The only thing they have to keep in mind is that the predominant flavor in a gin has to come from the juniper berry (if you want to know why that is, we explain that in this article). Their base gin for the Parma Violet gin is a multi-award-winning London Dry gin. This gin is an amazing spirit. It’s really smooth and crisp with great notes of juniper berries. Even though all violet gins contain the violet flower, there’s a ton of variety in taste pallets between violet gins from different brands.As the name may suggest, this is a relatively sweet version of a violet gin. First of all, it’s a gin liqueur which means that the Alcohol by Volume (ABV) of the gin is allowed to be lower than 37.5%. This drink has an ABV of 20%. The Parma Violet version of their gin is quite floral on the nose. There’s a light taste of Parma Violets sweets with hints of rose petals and lemon peel. The juniper-forward flavor is still very present in this gin. A violet gin is almost always a brand’s own standard gin but with added violets to the last distillation step. The base recipe is slightly altered so the flavor pallet balances well with the floral flavors from violet. The base gin gets a bit more of a floral taste and becomes relatively sweet. Due to the fact that there are so many different botanicals to choose from, a new craze arose in the gin market over the past few years. The popularity of fruity and colorful gins like pink gin and blood orange gin has increased a ton recently.