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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Martin Miller's Westbourne with Icelandic Sagas

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The end of August has come a good week (maybe a day or two more) before the end of my gin collection which means I have much more gin than I...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Hayman's Old Tom Gin with How To Mix Drinks

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Old Tom is a sweeter style of gin that's been resurrected over the last decade, initially it seems at the request of london's mixolo...
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Monday, August 29, 2016

Shetland Reel Gin with David Howarth's The Shetland Bus

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I've been going through the gin in the wardrobe trying to decide which ones not to write about (it's not been an easy choice) but I ...
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Sunday, August 28, 2016

Rock Rose with Hugh MacDiarmid's 'Scotland Small?'

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D bought me my first bottle of Rock Rose, he's originally from Caithness so when he saw it he had to buy it. (In Fortnum and Mason's...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016

Daffy's gin with Ian Fleming and James Bond

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Daffy' is pretty new on the gin scene - launched at the tail end of 2014 after a couple of years intense development work - it also says...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Berkeley Square Gin with Nancy Mitford

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Berkeley Square gin is another Joanne Moore creation (she's behind some great gins, though this one could maybe have been better markete...
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Warner Edwards Rhubarb Gin with Miss Buncle's Book

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I find it very hard to resist the idea of a flavoured gin - or any odd liqueur, it has led to some dreadful mistakes in the way of alcohol p...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Tanqueray Rangpur with Passage of Arms

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August is disappearing faster than the list of gins I want to write about, how do I even go about choosing which ones to cut from the list, ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Audemus Pink Pepper Gin with Perfume: A Century of Scents

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I've just been having a conversation on Twitter about drinking culture, and how much pressure there is to drink when perhaps you shouldn...
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Monday, August 22, 2016

Hendrick's Gin with a bit of Victorian excess

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I had to really think about writing about Hendrick's gin. I'm not that keen on it so it was tempting not to bother, but then it'...
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