Brokers Gin (70cl, 40%)

Brokers Gin is a London dry gin from England, made at the Langley Distillery near Birmingham. It uses a classic London dry recipe with ten botanicals, built on four-times-distilled alcohol from English wheat. The botanicals steep for 24 hours before a further distillation in a copper pot still, and no added aromas or colouring are used. The recipe includes juniper berries, coriander seeds, orange and lemon peel, nutmeg, liquorice root, cinnamon, iris root, cassia bark and angelica root. It is bottled at 40% in a 70cl bottle. On the nose, juniper leads with candied fruit peel, coriander, lively citrus and a mild black pepper spice. The palate combines spicy juniper with fresh herbal notes, sweet ripe fruit, orange and lemon peel, coriander, pepper, a sweet violet tone and pine-like freshness. The finish leaves resinous pine notes and crushed black pepper spice.