Discover five of our favourite gins for spring!
Mar 18, 2021
Here at Craft Gin Club HQ, we love to get seasonal with our gins, and no season fills us with more joy than spring.
Spring is when the cold weather starts to fade away and the world grows into its glorious full bloom. At its beginning, we love to think about the perfect gins to match the season. What do we look for in gins for spring?
Well, it has to be those gins that really celebrate the abundance and fragrances of that wonderful season. For us, that means flesh, crisp, clean palates, bright citrus tones, floral flavours and herby aromatics just like the five beautiful tipples we have highlighted below.
Perfume Trees Gin
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Perfume Trees calls Hong Kong it’s home and is a beautiful ode to the wonderful floral and spice scents of that incredible city.
What makes Perfume Trees Gin so perfect for spring?
Made using white champaca blossom, which grows in Hong Kong and is a botanical worth its weight in gold, this remarkable tipple was our April 2020 Gin of the Month. With its complex symphony of aromatic floral and Asian spice notes, it’s a feast for the senses that perfectly encapsulates the floral abundance of spring.
What is our favourite way to drink Perfume Trees Gin in spring?
We recommend pairing Perfume Trees Gin with The Artisan Drinks Co.’s Skinny London Tonic and a garnish of rosebuds and grapefruit for a delicious spring G&T.
Seppeltsfield Barossa Dry Gin
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From the south of Australia, this London Dry is complex yet wonderfully clean on the palate.
What makes Seppeltsfield Rd Distillers Barossa Dry Gin so perfect for spring?
We could have picked any of the Seppeltsfield Rd Distillers’ wonderful gins for a great spring tipple, they all encapsulate that joyful spring-like abundance that their home in Australia’s Barossa Valley enjoys all year long. But it’s their Barossa Dry, with its crisp juniper and citrus notes and its touches of lavender that we think really captures the freshness of spring with each sip.
What is our favourite way to drink Seppeltsfield Rd Distillers Barossa Dry Gin in spring?
This gin is great with Lovely Drink’s Indian Tonic Water when garnished with cranberries and lime slices. It makes for a truly sensational spring gin drinking experience.
Victory Pink Gin
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Distilled by Victory London Distillery with 8 Brix Verjus Red ice wine from Minus 8 Vinyard in Canada, Victory Pink Gin finds a delicious balance of sweet and acidic notes, with lots of sumptuous red fruit and berry flavours joining juniper in every sip.
What makes Victory Pink Gin so perfect for spring?
This mouthwatering, all-natural pink gin is the perfect tipple to sip in those longer spring evening, especially if the weather is warm enough to spend the evening out in the garden.
What is our favourite way to drink Victory Pink Gin in spring?
Served over lots of ice with Tonica Superfine Tassoni and garnish with lime and cranberries, it is utterly divine.
Amázzoni Gin
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With a unique mix of classic London Dry botanicals and ingredients unique to the Amazon rainforest, Amázzoni Gin is a completely unique Brazilian tipple.
What makes Amázzoni Gin so perfect for spring?
This tasty tipple is a wonderfully herbaceous gin that’s fragrant and aromatic in all the right places. There’s no better mirror for the incredible variety that spring offers.
What is our favourite way to drink Amázzoni Gin in spring?
Enjoy this gin with Fentimans Pink Grapefruit Tonic Water for a truly special G&T.
Ludlow Elderflower, Chamomile and Lemon Verbena
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Ludlow Elderflower, Chamomile and Lemon Verbena No. 5, our March 2020 Gin of the Month and it is utterly delicious.
What makes Ludlow Elderflower, Chamomile and Lemon Verbena No. 5 so perfect for spring?
If there is one gin that is made to be quaffed in spring it’s this. It’s brimming with complex elderflower and chamomile flavours and bright, tongue-tingling touches of citrus. Each sip will transport you to Britain’s meadows in full bloom.
What is our favourite way to drink Ludlow Elderflower, Chamomile and Lemon Verbena No. 5 in spring?
For a real taste of spring, you need to try this gin with Flawsome! Apple & Rhubarb in our March 2020 Cocktail of the Month, Craft Gin Club’s Spring Sling.
