Today’s Advent Gin is East London Gin Co. Kew Gin. The distillers foreground juniper, Douglas fir, and orange, with lavender, angelica, fennel, coriander, and liquorice; my taste affirms the top three, and although I couldn’t pick out the remaining botanicals, they combine to provide a steady foundation for the leading notes. Kew Gin is not aggressively medicinal, a pleasant reminder that gin doesn’t have to punish you for enjoying it, though I think I’d perk up a bit more if the fir were a hiccough more prominent, the orange a tiny bit less so.
On this fourth of the month, I’d group it with yesterday’s Tobermory: both are gentle, as if for tentative drinkers (and that’s okay with me), both ahead of Hoxton Tropical, and my favourite so far is still Silent Pool.