Taking a small departure from whiskeys for this post.
Since my wife and I started exploring spirits, we've come to know various
whiskeys and bourbons fairly well — at least, well enough to know what we like.
Ever the adventurous one, my wife, at the behest of a friend who is big into
gin, got her (well, got us to try a few different gins. Among them: a
German gin from Black Forest Distillers called Monkey 47; Aviation American Gin
from Oregon. Those were the first two — I can't really recall the rest...
...EXCEPT for The Botanist Dry Gin.
The Botanist was very different. It was light; it was very, very botanical;
we were fast friends right from the start.
I'm not a gin guy. I know gin is coming back into style; it's "a thing" again.
To me, gin is the drink of my grandfather... and, considering I'm a fairly newly
minted pentagenarian, that ought to tell you something. I'm not knocking those
who are big into gin now; it's just not my thing.
But The Botanist is really lovely, for what it's worth from a not-a-gin-guy.
P.S. - Bonus points for the latin on the bottle. Does anyone know what it says?
UPDATE: I know what the print on the bottle means. I sent a note
to the distillery. They report the lettering on the bottle is the names of the 22
Islay botanicals the distillery uses!
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