Roku Japanese Craft Suntory Gin, 70cl

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This expression is made using a selection of botanicals, including six Japanese botanicals provide a whistle-stop tour of the four seasons. One of the most popular mixing gins, Roku Gin is bold and strikingly bitter – which makes it a rather challenging mixing gin.

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Palate: A rich taste that gradually envelops the mouth with the natural sweetness and complex flavour of the rice. Roku Gin has some interesting things going on, but the bitterness overwhelms the subtlety in the other botanicals and leads to a gin that will certainly appeal to seasoned gin drinkers and experts at picking out botanicals.Make yourself a large gin and tonic with plenty of ice and we encourage you to use a healthy slice of fresh ginger as a garnish. Often, the print quality, resolution, text and colour is a bit off and looks even more so when compared side by side to the original. Inside every bottle of Roku Gin, you will find six very special botanical that are sourced in Japan. The experience I have had with other types of gin is that it has taken a few sips to adapt to the taste - I don’t get that with this gin, it is instantly tasty. Traditional gin botanicals also featured include the likes of juniper, orange peel, lemon peel, coriander and cinnamon, among others.

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Traditional gin taste in the base, plus characteristic Japanese botanical notes with yuzu as the top note.Drinking this gin gives you a sense of calmness and peace – like a walk in the Japanese botanical gardens. Kanpai for a specific occasion and received it in perfect, mint condition, presented in a beautiful box. It’s full of the usual suspects like juniper, angelica, and coriander, but also uniquely Japanese ones like Shansho “pepper,” a citrus with a numbing heat like Szechuan pepper (its cousin).