GinMareMediterraneanGin(700mL)

<p>Winner of the BEST OF 2015 Flaviar Community Award!</p><p>This Spanish Distillery is located just outside of Barcelona, in <em>Vilanova</em>, a small fishing village that lies between Costa Brava and Costa Dorada. The Distillery is owned by the <em>Giro Ribot family</em>, which has been in the Wine and Spirits business <em>since 1835</em>. The family’s first foray into Gin began in 1940 when <em>Manuel Giro Sr</em> launched <em>Gin MG</em>, now one of Spain’s best selling Gins.</p><p>Years later grandsons <em>Mark and Manuel Jr</em> wanted to continue the family tradition and crafted their own Gin, inspired by the<em> Mediterranean climate</em>, using locally sourced botanicals. To produce Gin Mare they used the family <em>housed in a chapel</em> that was once a monk’s retreat. Talk about the Holy Spirit!</p><p><em>Gin Mare</em> truly is Mediterranean, in spirit and in taste. The premium barley base is infused with traditional Gin botanicals, but also specialties of the Mediterranean — basil from Italy, thyme from Greece, rosemary from Turkey, citrus fruits from Spain, and their liquid gold: The <em>ARBEQUINA OLIVE</em>; the only olive in the world with its own <em>Designation of Origin</em>.</p><p>Due to the low yield of the Arbequina olives when juiced, they have to use an astounding <em>15 kg of olives</em> per each distillation batch. The citrus they add is <em>macerated for a full year</em> before being used, while other botanicals take around 36 hours. All of these botanicals are<em> individually distilled</em> in a 250-liter Florentine still, and are blended together only after the individual distillations have taken place.</p>