In recent years, many different gins have arrived in the market. It truly feels like their popularity is at an all-time high. For every type of drink, there’s a kind of gin.
All varieties are unique, and you can mix them into your favourite cocktail, like a martini. Today, you can find a dry gin made using eight individually distilled botanicals, including Geraldton and sunrise lime. It offers a complex array of flavours. It’s thus a modern classic gin that all gin enthusiasts can enjoy. Below are some popular types of gins and their taste.
London Dry Gins
London Dry originates from England. Today it is made all over the world. You can see this type commonly in the Martini and Gin and Tonics.
It’s a unique gin with intense juniper flavours, and it’s the berry utilised for its trademark taste and has lots of free citrus notes. A lemon twist brings out the various citrus elements of a Martini. Usually, dry gins like this one don’t have artificial flavours like sweeteners.
Plymouth Gin
There is only one distillery that creates Plymouth gin. This gin rose to popularity when the Savoy cocktail book mentioned it. There are 23 cocktail recipes in the Savoy cocktail book that uses this gin. A Plymouth Gin is much drier than a London Dry. It also has a strong citrus note. You can also get a spicy finish from the blend of seven botanicals. Overall, they make a tremendous earthy note, making it a good ingredient for Negronis and Martinis.
New Western Dry or New Wave Gin
During the 2000s, various gin crafters tried to create less juniper-forward gins. New Western Dry is a means of describing gins that have a gentler juniper influence. Different distilleries all over the world have adopted this style. This gin style has an approachable profile, so its appeal is more than London Dry. You can regard it as a ‘bridge’ for vodka drinkers. But it also offers an exciting range of flavours that bartenders would love to experiment with.
Old Tom Gin
This gin came up in 1813. It is aged in barrels, which imparts a darker hue. The Old Tom name comes from the barrels in which this gin was aged as they were called Old Toms. This gin is sweet and botanically intense. In the 1960s, this gin went out of fashion only to return today, with the surge in cocktail culture. Gin makers use botanicals of the highest quality to distil this gin. Its sweetness comes from liquorice that gets added during the distillation process. It works perfectly in mixed drinks.
Aged Gin
There are great woody flavours in an aged gin—the gin style matured in wooden barrels, which influenced the end product. For instance, gins aged in barrels initially used to age bourbons possess a spicy sweetness. At times, the gin is also matured in new barrels. The barrels are built from oak. Aged gin is darker than London dry.
Genever
It is an original gin style from the Netherlands and Belgium. Genever dates back to the 16th century. Its creation procedure is nearer to a whiskey than a usual gin. It gets distilled from a malted grain mash and is cask aged for 1 to 3 years. The original old Genever style is sweet and aromatic. Young Genever has a lighter body and is drier.
A high-quality dry gin offers a supple start on the palette and gradually creates a bold mix of citrus and herbaceous intensity. Such dry gins have 400 per cent alcohol per volume. It is made using Macedonian juniper that’s both cold and hot distilled. Such a gin is sure to leave its taste lingering way after you’ve taken it.
