Distiller Notes
2021 San Francisco World Spirits Competition Gold Medal Winner
America's original craft gin; first post-prohibition craft gin in the United States made by hand in the classic London dry gin tradition. Offers a bold juniper forward flavor and made with a dozen botanicals in their natural state.
Distilled using a small copper pot still at the Hotaling & Co. Distillery on Protrero Hill in San Francisco.
Professional Ratings
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Wine Enthusiast
The 20th anniversary of this robust spirit, the first craft gin distilled in the U.S. after Prohibition was in 2016. The aroma mingles juniper and citrus; the palate also shows plenty of lemon curd sweetness and peppery spice (cubeb, grains of paradise, pink peppercorn), finishing spicy with white peppercorn and coriander seed.
Produced only in accordance with strict purity standards formulated by an 18th century European Parliament that guaranteed the absence of toxic distillation byproducts, the phrase “London Dry” on a bottle doesn't refer to any specific place of origin, age or ingredients. To be called a London Dry Gin, the base spirit must be distilled in a column still to at minimum, 70% abv. Natural botanicals can be added to the resulting neutral spirit only through re-distillation. Anything added after distillation other than water and a tiny amount of sugar disqualifies a Gin from the title, London Dry.