Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin with Sardinian Citrus 750ml Calvados in an almost unprecedented turn

in an almost unprecedented turn

and fruit-forward character that distinguishes it from the more structured and more austere profile of the Napa Valley expression — softer tannins

A gentle wood-driven spice note from the Balkan oak provides the final structural quality at the very close

subtle lingering vanilla or sweet grain

full malolactic Oak 10 months American oak Lees Aging On lees until bottling ABV 14

Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin with Sardinian Citrus 750ml Calvados in an almost unprecedented turnThere are gin botanicals, and then there are botanicals that no other distiller in the world has thought to use. PJ Rigney found one of the latter along the 41st Northern Parallel, tracing the Mediterranean coastline through gnarled groves of cork oak into the rustic village of Siniscola, on the island of Sardinia. There, he encountered "sa pompia" Citrus monstruosa, a rare, genuinely strange relative of the orange and grapefruit that grows nowhere