The fifth day of Advent Gin is from Edinburgh, Lind & Lime. The Leith-based distillers recall the anti-scurvy properties of citrus with a lime-forward gin, cut with pink peppercorn and cardamom among other botanicals. The lime is unmistakeable; the peppercorn, perhaps, a strong second; the juniper stands in the background. I miss the juniper, as in several other of the Advent Gins, but if one is going to overdo an added note, lime seems a sensible flavour, as if someone splashed a generous dose of lime juice onto a G&T.
Margaret detected the cardamom, though I couldn’t place it.
I thought I noticed a very slightly sweet note to the body, almost as if it were a cucumber slice (which I do occasionally enjoy with a G&T), but I couldn’t place the source of it.
Still Pool remains #1, and this joins Tobermory and the Kew Gin as next favourites.