Top 5 Gins for Mother's Day
With just over a week until until Mother's Day, our gin selection features 5 top English Gins that combine great juniper-forward flavours with a stand out bottle for maximum visual impact. A feast for the eyes and the taste buds!
Forest Gin
Forest Gin comes in a snazzy porcelain bottle with the distillery's cute paper-cut style design, which won a Gold Design Award for its cool looks.
But the contents are pretty special too winning Double Gold at the San Francisco World Spirits Awards, as well as being selected as one of the World’s Fifty Best Gins!
Oxford Artisan Distillery Ashmolean Dry Gin
Founded in 1683, the Ashmolean’s world famous collections range from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art.
Inspired by the Museum's collections from around the world, this Gin contains 17 botanicals including exotic jara lemon, rose, jasmine, and spices from the Middle East and Asia. Richly flavoured but still juniper-led, it also has exotic notes of cardamom and myrrh.
The bottle illustration is Spray of 'Morning Glory', by Takeuchi Seiho (1864 - 1942), part of the museum’s Eastern Art collection.
Scilly Spirit Distillery Atlantic Strength Gin
Atlantic Strength Gin is juniper forward on the nose with savoury herbal notes of dill and fresh fennel, closing with cedar wood.
The striking bottle has won several design awards with its long neck mirroring the island's lighthouse. At its navy strength of 57%, this makes a classy but punchy G&T.
IWSC Silver 91 points 2020
Cotswolds Gin Magnum
This impressive 1.5L magnum of Cotswolds Gin is the ultimate party bottle. If you are having a get-together on Mother's Day and want plenty of Gin to go around, this is the choice for you!
Juniper, coriander and angelica root are steeped in a pure wheat spirit for a whole 24 hours before distilling with bay leaf, grapefruit, lime, black pepper, cardamom seed and Cotswolds lavender.
Such a high volume of botanicals is used that a beautiful pearlescent cloud appears when ice or tonic is added.
Smidgin
Smidgin Dry Gin is a great way to get a full flavoured G&T but with just a smidge of alcohol! This dinky 20cl bottle contains an 6 ingredient, 10x intensified botanical blend, so a little goes a long way. The cute little copper coloured measuring spoon (half a teaspoon) helps you get the perfect smidge each time: add a spoon of Smidgin to 200ml of tonic (voila! a G&T with an approximate strength of 0.6% alc.)
Want to see more top English Gins from smaller craft distilleries? Take a look at our Award-Winning English Gins or English Gin Bestsellers.
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