Originally Posted by
Calcifer
I recently bought a bottle of Four Pillars' Olive Branch gin, lured in by its marketing as savory. So far I've only had one drink from it but I quite enjoyed it as a G&T with Fevertree light cucumber tonic (it's the only gin I've had where the cucumber in the tonic comes through as a taste, rather than just an aroma).
Probably better in a martini but I’d lean towards agree8ng with them and garnishing with a cocktail onion (ie, a Gibson) rather than an olive as the olive on olive can be a bit much unless you’re making in dirty
Originally Posted by
dodgeflyer
Agree that in a g&t most new gins can be a bit wasted. Better to invest in proper tonic water.
Favourite gins: Inverroche (South African cape botanicals); made right excellent in a martini. Fauna: Norwegian gin, my now go to - works equally well in martini and gt/gin fizz and Monkey 47. Latter is still my favourite and sits in Norway at the price point between the two aforementioned. It did appear to have quite steep price increases but that appear to have subsided. Best use is for a martini and creates a relatively complex tasting one.
I miss my inverroche. I got a taste for it in 2019 when I was there and had a team of people going back and forth regularly keeping me supplied but then covid hit and destroyed my supply line.
We usually have about 10 gins on rotation at home with the following being our ‘greatest hits’ so we’d have 5 or so other bottles rotating through.
G&T - Nikka Coffey
Negroni - Four pillars negroni gin
Martini (dry with twist) - Martin Miller westbourne strength
Martini (dry, savoury) - Four pillars olive leaf
Sipping - SAS distillery Angelicus (can only get this in Belgium and covid causing supplies to be dangerously low as well)
Stock/versatile/value - Tanqueray