![]() ![]() The Oswego peoples of upstate New York taught Europeans a couple of uses for the plant. I know it as an ornamental plant from gardens. The first thing that caught my eye was Scarlet Beebalm. Photo by Jerry Drown, Univesity of Tennessee Herbarium. ![]() I think it’s rewarding for both kinds of drinkers, and it gets high marks in my book for the complexity and balance. Secondly, you can sit down as if to study it and probe the way this myriad of botanicals unravel on your palate. There’s two levels on which you can enjoy this spirit: firstly, you can just appreciate the way it blends together to create a single powerful presence. ![]() The finish, we get oily, aromatic herbs with peppermint leaves, lemon balm, blackberry and a faint pepper and green tomato aftertaste.įresh and fruity, with a lot of complicated nuance. As the taste progresses, we get peppery, vegetal notes, harmoniously entwined as if a single botanical. Herbaceous juniper, blackthorne, lavender and an acute resiny pine note that comes across as more spruce/rosemary. The palate starts with some minty, herbal notes. A lot going on here, and it’s all quite engaging. Oregano and honeysuckle appear fleetingly, like needles in a haystack being shuffled before your very eyes. It’s nicely blended with a lot of hints of clues rabbit holes of aroma that can be explored only to come up empty with a vague “floral” or “fruity” admission.Īs the spirit warms, herbal notes emerge more prominently. There’s a lot in here, and I’m not sure any experts are going to agree on the exact list you get here on the nose. (!) This encyclopedic list merely reflects how incredibly complex and brightly aromatic this gin is. The nose is mentholated juniper, pineapple sage, lemon verbena, lavender, rose, hibiscus and lime. On botanicals alone, boasting an ostentatious 47, it might be the most complicated gin on the market, but to throw you one more curveball, it’s also built on a base spirit of molasses. So it might seem natural that years after the fact in retirement, he retained an affection for the monkey he sponsored, and when he made his gin, he named it after him. You see, this Commander also helped rebuild the world-famous Berlin zoo, and during the course of this he came to support Max, an egret monkey, who lived in the zoo. Inspired by the Black Forest through the lens of his family’s heritage he combined British influence, Indian botanicals, and the natural flora of the German forest to create a complex gin he called Schwarzwald Dry Gin, along with the note Max the Monkey. The story of Monkey 47 is attributed to an Indian born British Commander who was stationed in Germany after the second world war. ![]()
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