Today’s Advent Gin is Cotswolds Hedgerow Gin, to which I was looking forward because I greatly enjoyed a bottle of their Dry Gin a few years ago. The Hedgerow variety begins with the Dry Gin and blends it with hedgerow fruits (sloes, damsons, blackberries, bullace). The resulting blend is an interesting via media between their Dry Gin and a full-on Sloe Gin (or other berried infusion). I would understand if someone thought it fell between the stools, but it’s growing on me. The restraint of the infusion allows the gin to make itself known without the botanicals dominating, and to lend the whole the prominent, but not dominant, berry notes. If I wanted a sloe gin (for mixing or sipping), I wouldn’t choose this, nor would I choose it for an austere G&T; it is its own concoction, an alternative to straight gin, perhaps for late night…