Gin Mare 70cl 42.7% ABV
£42.95
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Gin Mare
Drinking Gin Mare will transport you to their coast at the height of summer. With its eternal blue sky, its characteristic scent of rosemary, basil and thyme, the sea breeze on your skin. This gin is made using traditional techniques from the Mediterranean, through a delicate maceration and independent distillation which expresses all the characteristics of each botanical in the final product.
Each bottle of Gin Mare is made at their distillery, a thirteenth century chapel located in an ancient fishing village between the Costa Brava and the Costa Dorada.
Every bottle of Gin Mare is unique. The acidity levels of Gin Mare’s star ingredient, the arbequina olive, change every year. This means each and every distillation is a unique culinary work of art.
Becoming a gin expert is about more than just drinking it. By going one step further to understand the ‘hows’ and the ‘whys’ you’ll become a real expert. Scent, colour, taste, reactions, sensations… There’s a reason for everything. Want to know what they are? The guys at Gin Mare have nothing to hide.
We know that besides enjoying yourself, Gin Mare also forms part of your lifestyle. Here you have information on the more technical aspects of their gin, so that you make it your own!
Gin Mare is characterised in large parts, its spiciness, its aromatic herbs and citrus notes. Although it is commonly associated with clove, aromatic compounds such as eugenol are also present in other ingredients such as basil or orange peel.
Botanicals such as rosemary, lend Gin Mare a woody scent known as pinenes, which is a key odorant also found in juniper berries, the primary ingredient for most gins.
Juniper berries contain another herbal, aromatic note known as beta-myrcene, which is also present in basil and thyme. Italian sweet basil imparts certain anisic, balsamic (cinnamon-like) and camphor-like aromatic notes to our gin. These three notes are present in varying degrees across all varieties of basil.
Whereas Thai basil contains more anise odorants, African blue basil has more camphor odorants, and cinnamon basil, as its name suggests, has more cinnamon odorants. Lastly, the small, black Arbequina olives impart a distinctive savoury element, rounding out its fruity, herbal notes with their fragrant green grassy, tomato-like aroma.
The balance of Gin Mare’s traditional ingredients, together with Arbequina olives, basil, thyme and rosemary, combine to create an aromatic profile which is remarkably different to other gins. These extra aromatic components deliver the added benefit of allowing you to pair Gin Mare with a wider range of foods and ingredients than other gins.
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