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Lussa Gin 750mL

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It’s been near on a decade and yet the word Jura still evokes a spirited response (and not a good one), but it would erroneous to fault an island for one bad scotch – so let’s see how they’ve fared at gins, which recently we’ve been on a kick for with scottish gins so this should be interesting. The short version is that if you are looking for a truly unique sort of gin in this day and age, you will certainly find it here, and more so there are places where this gin does rather well. However as you’d expect there’s a big butt on the horizon.

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The Teasmith Premium Scottish Gin 750mL

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The mention of tea brought back to our minds something else that’s relatively close to Scotland in the form of an Irish Gin (Drumshanbo) the result not being stellar, however that was made with tea prepared in a way that likened it to gunpowder. Here however we have Ceylon tea which might mean something to you. What means something to us is what the contents of the bottle bring – which is good, but there’s a catch.

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Gin di Fiori Premium Italian Dry Gin 750mL

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This is odd to say, but it’s sort of sad to dislike something you were actually sort of ready and willing to like. We’re big fans of lemoncello here so when we see the Italians making a gin, our hopes in a bevy of citrus and awesome flavors were sort of muted by the end result in Gin di Fiori. While the lemon certainly has a role to play here, overall it’s just not a good gin. It straddles that expanse between galaxies of ‘gin’ gins and ‘wild’ gins, and fails to be either.

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Esme Gin 750mL

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One does not typically think of France when one thinks of Gin, but then if you had been given this in a blind solo cup test – it’s not like you’d be able to determine it comes just a bit south of the good ol’ english. Sure looking at it – the design certainly can invoke that imagery, but what you get with the taste is something good, but not too good. Really though the end result of this whole endeavor is something that actually works well in a G&T and surprisingly isn’t overpriced to match it’s look.

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Raffles Gin 750mL

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It wasn’t initially clear that this gin had relation to Sipsmith, but it seems much like that gin – this is really a Gin & Tonic gin that is mildly okay elsewhere. In reality while it’s really nice to have unique and diverse gins – sometimes you just want something to throw into tonic and be done with it. The benefit is that while Sipsmith is harder and much more expensive to get stateside, this does not have the issue (fully).

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GrandTen Distilling Wire Works American Gin 750mL

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We previously knocked GrandTen’s outing for an Irish/Boston Whisky, but this time it’s all American baby – and it’s worse. The name wire works here evokes more of an image of a copper scrubber with this as the cleaning solution more than a copper still, and to be honest it’s not a great image to have. The worse image this conjures up though is in it’s first line asking if you’re tired of British colonization which – jeez guys – that’s a loaded question for a gin.

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