Xmas Gifts Parade 2021 - Needle Gin

The Gin hype is already a couple of years behind us. The result is that new gins that appear on the market these days are usually pretty good. For this edition of our Xmas Gifts Parade, I received a nice giftpack from Needle Gin. This spirit had its roots in Baden, in the middle of the German Black Forest. I expected a deep aroma of spruce needles, but it’s certainly not overwhelming. This is a good quality spirit with subtle notes of the forest. A nice bouquet of botanicals flavour this gin. Some of them are listed on the website: Juniper berries, lavender, ginger, sun-ripened lemons and oranges, pimento and cinnamon and of course a generous amount of hand-picked spruce needles… 

This bottle actually reminded me of my father, who used to drink spruce tea in winter to cure his cold. I think this gin will absolutely cure a mild cold too 😉.

No cocktail today, I enjoyed a nice and soothing Gin & Tonic. Just mix 50 ml Gin with 100 ml of tonic.

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