The launch of this very special single-cask expression, created to celebrate the Royal wedding in May 2018, has seen only 440 bottles crafted, with a very limited 250 bottles being made available to the public! For example, the most expensive gin on the list above, Monkey 47, boasts its rare ingredients from a region known as the “Black Forest”. Botanicals grown for generations, their soil nourished by the same age old, underground stream. Through distillation of these wood ants, it is possible to explore the tasty universe of these naturally occurring molecules and reactions, capturing the flavours of this fascinating species. It’s infused with the highest awarded wine produced by the 275-year-old Weingut Forstmeister Geltz Zilliken’s, which is bought at great expense at auction for the job. 'However due to the nature of alcohol during the distillation process some of it remains in vapour form - the angel's share - so I installed a third trap that operates at -75 degrees C. 'That trap collects the one per cent of the spirit that would otherwise evaporate.'. That’s because fewer than 500 bottles were made to celebrate the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with unique botanicals like sea buckthorn and gorse flower. It gets its unique flavor from saffron and verbena. The handmade 0.5l bottle has a green leather look with gold foil embossing on all sides which makes it super stylish, elegant and unique. Best traditional English gin. The result is an almost Cognac-esque concentration and a showstopper of a gin. The comments below have not been moderated. Hartridges: Britain's oldest independent soft drinks company. this gin tastes much gentler. Here are the most expensive gins in the world. As it is quite rare to find in Scotland so they decided to honour this aged berry and make a gin with it. Top chefs predict the biggest food trends appearing in... Anti-age your body the easy way: DON’T go jogging, DON’T eat... How far would YOU go to get a body like an Angel? Hobart No.4 is a Tasmanian Single Malt Gin enriched with four native Australian botanicals – lemon myrtle, anise myrtle, wattleseed and Tasmanian pepperberry. Ferdinand’s Saar Dry Gin Goldcap $96. This strictly limited edition Cambridge Seasonal Gin has been distilled using botanicals from the local area, which have been grown or foraged in the first part of the year. Enter your email to get the latest gin news, freebies & recipes: You'll LOVE Masons Orange & Lime Leaf Gin! Hepple is distilled in the North East and is the brainchild of well-known chef and forager, Valentine Warner, and it shows. Most delicious craft gins will cost you £30 to £40 and we like to use those for our regular gins and tonics. It means the spirit evaporates at much lower temperature. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Pretty luxurious! Another Japanese gin makes the list! 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Published: 08:56 EST, 29 December 2015 | Updated: 09:52 EST, 29 December 2015. In partnership with the National Museum of the Royal Navy, The Isle of Wight Distillery have recreated the type and style of gin drunk by Naval officers during the 1800’s. During the distilling process Will collects the angel's share in a unique 'trap' chilled to a freezing -75 degrees C using dry ice, and it takes 100 distillations to make just one bottle of the rare gin. In 2017, it was musk yarrow, an aromatic, alpine flowering plant. Will Lowe (pictured here with wife Lucy) collects the angel's share- the minuscule amount lost to evaporation during distilling - in a unique 'trap' chilled to a freezing -75 degrees C using dry ice, and it takes 100 distillations, The unique bottle was designed by top London studio Loris and Livia, hand-blown in Cambridgeshire then decorated with silver by leading jeweller Antoine Sandoz, Each of the bottles is made from hand blown glass and only six bottles have been created. Only 3% of people have tried more than two… how many have you tried? You may have a tough time tracking down a bottle of Snodownia Distillery’s single cask expression of its Forager’s Gin. The botanics to make this gin are sourced from all over the world, where they are found in their finest form. 4 on the rocks, in an old fashioned, or for an ultra textural Negroni. Cambridge Distillery may be the smallest gin distillery in the world and perhaps because of that, it can do a variety of adventurous and experimental things. The first three times the gin is distilled with grain. According to the distillery, the formic acid within the ants produces fascinating aromatic esters in the gin. The Cambridge Distillery made headlines earlier this year when they launched Anty Gin, the world's first gin made from ants, which has just been crowned the world's most innovative alcoholic beverage at a prestigious awards ceremony. We have no idea how this will taste, but it’d look very smart on your gin shelf! Why not join the ILoveGin club where we send you a new box like the one below for just £14/m inc free delivery, you’ll get 2 new gins and 2 tonic/mixers each month to try, enough to make 4 G&Ts plus discounts on full size bottles.