BoodlesGin(700mL)

<p>The classic London Dry that started it all.</p><p><em>Boodles Gin </em>helped define the <em>London Dry style </em>of Gin. But for years, you couldn’t get it in the UK. It all started at the Boodle’s Gentlemen’s Club located in the exclusive Saint James district of London. In <em>1845</em>, the club came out with its own private-label Gin produced locally by <em>Cock Russell & Company</em>. Through a long series of mergers and acquisitions by the huge mega-corp Spirits companies, Boodles continued to be made in the UK, but was only available for sale in the US. Crazy, right? Anyway, the brand was purchased by <em>Proximo Spirits</em> in <em>2012</em> who have maintained the original formula and process — now produced at the <em>Greenalls Distillery </em>— and returned this historic Spirits to the UK and the world.</p><p><em>Boodles British Gin</em> starts with a base of British wheat and the Spirit is distilled in a Carter Head copper still. Interestingly, the list of botanicals includes no citrus at all. The original makers assumed that a lime or lemon wedge would be used, making infusions unnecessary. But you will fine plenty of juniper along with nutmeg, sage, rosemary, angelica root, caraway seed, cassia, and a few additional components they<em> keep secret</em>. The point is to achieve that clean, dry, classic note that Boodles help invent all those years ago.</p><p><u>Smartass Corner:</u><em>The “Carter Head” still was developed with Gin in mind. It has a copper basket on top of the column where the botanicals are infused inline during primary distillation.</em></p>