Comb 9 Gin

Product of: United States

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Thought to be the world’s only gin distilled from honey. Production of this gin starts with honey wine made from fermented orange blossom honey. This is distilled to make the gins base spirit and this is redistilled with the botanicals which flavour the gin.

Is the nine a reference to the number of botanicals which flavour this gin or the number of different recipes tried in the product’s development? We might never know as the producers are staying tight-lipped.

Review and Tasting

Sampled on 19/05/2013

Appearance:

Crystal clear.

Aroma:

Piney juniper, camphor and lavender with angelica and cinnamon spice (the later perhaps from cassia. Pungent and spicy yet regal nose.

Taste:

Dry and clean with upfront juniper and generous herbal spice – perhaps a tad too generous. (Unusually the concentrated flavours of this gin might benefit from diluting with additional neutral spirit before hydrating to bottling strength. There again it stands up well to tonic.)

Aftertaste:

Pronounced lavender and pine in a long punchy finish. Stands out for being distilled from fermented honey and not third-party produced grain neutral spirit.