Hendrick's Orbium Gin (75cl, 43.4%)

Hendrick's Orbium Gin is a gin from Scotland, built on the standard Hendrick's distillates with rose and cucumber essences and finished with added extracts of quinine, wormwood and blue lotus blossom. Master Distiller Lesley Gracie created it in 2017 as the gin Hendrick's might be in a parallel universe. Orbium folds the flavours of a Gin & Tonic and a Martini into the spirit itself, layered over the house's rose-and-cucumber distillates. The brand presents it as a small-batch gin with a finite window of existence. Floral lotus, rose and cucumber come first, with juniper, citrus zest and coriander, moving through herbaceous notes into the woody bitterness of quinine and the earthy dryness of wormwood on the finish.