Whitley Neill Parma Violet Gin, 70 cl

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Another thing that makes Whitley Neill stand out from most flavored gins is that all their gins have an ABV of 43%. This means that all of their spirits are still mostly focused on creating a gin instead of just a sweetened drink with a bit of alcohol in it.

Gin starts out as a neutral grain spirit similar to vodka. After this first distillation, a combination of different botanicals is infused with the clear spirit to create a unique taste pallet. Gin distillers can choose from pretty much any herb, spice, flower, root, etc. they want to create their own distinctive gin. So, let’s say you’re looking for flavour pairings for your fruity gin - perhaps a spirit using apple as one of the botanicals. The garnish wheel says you can use lemon or lime as your base garnish - but maybe you could jazz it up and add a second garnish: a sprig of mint, or some muddled sage, or a warming touch of star anise? Take a look at the botanicals in your gin to experiment and pull out what you think sounds delicious based on the flavour pairings in the wheel! On the nose, this drink has lots of floral violet notes. The taste is floral as well with a touch of vanilla. This gin finishes with subtle peppery juniper notes. A violet gin is almost always a brand’s own standard gin but with added violets to the last distillation step. The base recipe is slightly altered so the flavor pallet balances well with the floral flavors from violet. The base gin gets a bit more of a floral taste and becomes relatively sweet.

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At first, you taste delicate and sweet violet flavors followed by the piney taste of the juniper berries. Most of the time the parma violet is used in infusion with gins. The parma violet belongs to the exotic branch of the violet family. Most of these parma violets grow lavender flowers which have a striking fragrance. Zymurgorium prides itself on experimenting with flavors and striving for great new tastes in all sorts of drinks and food products. These products range from cheeses to syrups, to crafty beers and gins. Whitley Neill is a sister company to the aforementioned J.J. Whitley. Just like J.J. Whitley, Whitley Neill specializes in flavored gins. And yet, not everyone can enjoy our Perfect G&Ts (yet!), and even we love to mix it up - literally - each month, and treat ourselves to tipples using other gins and mixers. And so, we’re left asking ourselves: what garnish goes with rhubarb and ginger gin? Is there such a thing as the perfect garnish to pair with sloe gin? What on earth should I garnish my new parma violet gin with?

In this violet gin, you’ll definitely get the amazing aroma of violet flowers. It contains sweet notes of violet and orange, but this is perfectly balanced with strong juniper notes and other more subtle botanicals like coriander and licorice.

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Even though all violet gins contain the violet flower, there’s a ton of variety in taste pallets between violet gins from different brands. The taste of violet is well balanced with the taste of juniper berries which a gin is supposed to taste like. It’s not too sweet, but sweet enough to make a nice summery variation to a gin and tonic. Boë Violet Gin The parma violet is so popular due to the well-known British sweets from Swizzels Matlow called Parma Violets. Gins that use the parma violet often try to resemble the taste of these popular British sweets as closely as possible. To sterilise your jars and bottles, put your clean jars in a low oven for at least half an hour. Carefully remove your jars from the oven (they will be incredibly hot) and allow them to cool down. Pour in your gin, I suggest you use a jug and a funnel for this.