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Flora Gin

40% ABV

£32.95

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This second gin expression from the team at Sutors Gin features exclusively native botanicals including Violets, Elderflower, Sweet Cicely, Sweet Woodruff, Hawthorn and Gorse. Flora is a light, floral style gin crafted from a wheat spirit brewed and distilled at the distillery. The gin is described as beautifully smooth with subtle violet leading to elderflower and citrus, finishing with smooth menthol.

Tasting notes

Key Flavours:

Citrus, Floral, Menthol, Sweet

Nose:

Fresh and floral

Taste:

Smooth with subtle floral notes from the violet leading to a sweetness from the elderflower and citrus notes

Finish:

Smooth menthol to finish

Key Botanical(s):

Violets, Elderflower

Goes great with:

A slice of apple, tonic and ice

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About

Ed Scaman and Stuart Wells, the co-founders of Sutors Gin, first mentioned creating a 100% Scottish Gin made with a base spirit distilled in Scotland from local grain along with local Scottish botanicals in 2016. Sin then the team have been on a pretty exciting Scottish Gin journey. First securing a loyal following through their Sutors Gin 500 Club, which saw the first 500 bottles allocated to the first 500 customers. Although development of the final recipe was in hand, the team still had to source larger quantities of local botanicals and grow and nurture the crops that would be used to create their base spirit. Once they had achieved all this, Sutors Gin was officially launched in October 2019.

London Dry Gin

London Dry Gin is both a flavour profile and a production method. London Dry Gins tend to follow the traditional, classic flavour of piney juniper, citrus and spice. Alongside juniper, botanicals in London Dry Gin often include orris root, angelica root, cassia bark, citrus peel and coriander, among the core botanicals. The result is a dry gin that features piney juniper along with bursts of citrus and warming spice and earthy, dry notes from use of botanicals such as cassia bark and coriander. Nothing synthetic can be added like flavourings or colours and nothing can be added post distillation apart from water and a tiny amount of sugar meaning all flavours come from distillation.

Production

Nautilus Gin Foundry, home to Sutors Gin, is tucked away amongst wheat and barley fields on top of a small hill overlooking the mountains of Sutherland. The distillery is housed in a former farm building, renovated by owners Ed Scaman and Stuart Wells. The team locally grow, forage and distil everything that goes into their spirits, working with local farmers to develop the best grains for their base spirit and foraging responsibly for the best quality Scottish Highland botanicals.