Christian Drouin Le Gin Calvados Cask Finish (70cl, 42%)

This gin is finished in former Calvados casks. Nine casks of about ten years old, each holding 225 litres, are selected, and the gin spends more than a year in them, developing a rounder character with more pronounced apple aromas and subtle wood notes. Each batch yields 2,850 bottles. The base is Le Gin de Christian Drouin, made from neutral alcohol, cider distillate from more than 30 apple varieties and eight botanicals: juniper, ginger, vanilla, lemon, cardamom, cinnamon, almond and rose. The plants are macerated and distilled individually before blending. It is bottled at 42% in a 0.7 litre bottle.