Mermaid Gin, Isle of Wight Distillery 42%

£41.95

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Mermaid Gin is small batch gin made at the Isle of Wight Distillery. Presented in a smart blue-green bottle complete with mermiad scales. Since this first gin was released, it has now been joined with Mermaid Pink and Mermaid Zest, as well as their HMS Victory Navy Strength Gin.

The Isle of Wight Distillery was founded by a winemaker and a brewer who had long thought about making a gin. Conrad Gauntlet started growing vines and making wine at Rosemary vineyard in 1985 and, with over 30 acres of vineyards, is one of the largest wine producers on the Isle of Wight. Xavier Baker has been brewing beer since 1995 and first cut his teeth at the Ventnor Brewery and, after a couple of detours in whisky (Ireland and Scotland), he eventually arrived at Goddard’s Brewery. The pair soon met and a plan to produce Gin was conceived. 

The premise behind the Wight Mermaids Gin is to produce a gin with a sense of place by using carefully selected local ingredients and botanicals. The botanicals include,

Juniper Berries
Rock Samphire – hand-picked from the chalk cliffs of the Isle of Wight
VBG Boudicea Hops – natural for a brewer, grown on the southern side of the island at the famous Ventnor Botanic Garden
English Coriander Seed – the first commercially grown in the UK
Fresh Lemon Zest
Angelica Root
Liquorice Root
Grains of Paradise
Orris Root
Elderflower – from the Isle of Wight

The botanicals for Isle of Wight Distillery Mermaids Gin are steeped in a pure neutral spirit for a full 24 hours which helps to extract all the essential oils and thus flavours and aromas. After 24 hours maceration the gin is then redistilled using the “one shot” method and distillation takes a full day in their 300 litre column still. The gin rested for seven days prior to bottling to allow flavours and aromas to mellow and marry together.

Also available in 5cl miniature bottles.

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