Caspyn Cornish Dry Gin 70cl – An International Award-Winning Dry Gin, Hand-Crafted in Cornwall and Infused with Lemon & Orange Peel, Lemon Grass and Japanese Tea

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With tonic, the green tea and lemon verbena seem louder somehow – in fact, the latter takes on an exotic, lemongrass feel – like biting into the wrong bit of a Thai Green Curry. It’s incredibly refreshing with a real ebullience about it… In fact, there’s such a sensation of fizz that you half expect it to foam out of your mouth. Cucumber might be a good pair here, cooling the G&T down, but a handful of strawberries would work, bringing in a huge summer dessert vibe. A tour of the distillery near Wadebridge starts in the visitor room – where colourful gin bottles line the walls and the distillery’s original copper pot still, Tamara, now resides – then moves to the distillery. Here, three 150-litre alembic stills, heated by naked flame, work alongside a new 3,000-litre column still. Today, the distillery can churn out up to 100,000 bottles a month, but the bottling, labelling and wax sealing is still done by hand. Gins from the Tarquin’s range, at home on the Cornish coast With tonic that peel/spice combination is accentuated; it’s a spiced G&T, with a layer of green so dark it’s as though you’re lost in a forest at night. It’s a bold interpretation of a summer gin, with cucumber dominating so much of the taste that the flower infusion barely gets to make a mark. It’s less singular than the lemon verbena-led Caspyn Gin, but despite that new found complexity we’d still opt for the original. Cornish Summer Cup to taste… These botanicals are in addition to a traditional gin bouquet, which oddly is what comes out when Caorunn gin is tasted.

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Exceptional handcrafted artisan gin, hand-distilled with passion using wild foraged Cornish botanicals. In the gin I have tried to capture the Cornish spring in a bottle. Not only by using fresh and local ingredients but also by using those flavours that remind me of my childhood. That excitement of Spring, when the mornings are crisp and fresh and the winter is fading. New flavours are coming into season, new smells fill the garden.

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There are few communities prouder of their homeland than the Cornish – and its distillers have taken this ethos to heart The Perrys understand their place both as part of a close-knit distilling community in Cornwall, and in their own community in Launceston. In June, as world leaders were gathering in Carbis Bay for the G7 Summit, the Eagle House Hotel hosted the Gin 7 Summit. Designed as a celebration of Cornish gins, the evening included tastings and an auction in aid of the Cornwall Blood Bikes charity. The couple have also expressed their ambition to keep distilling at the hotel, so their distillery can “serve the town”. The trio are also looking at making their own rum using imported molasses. It looks set to be the first English-made organic rum, and will set the path for the distillery’s gins to be made fully organic as well. (They won’t be the first Cornish gin makers to make this transition – Southwestern Distillery launched its Twin Fin rum in 2020, made with imported Caribbean spirit.)

Caspyn Cornish dry gin is a classic dry gin. The ingredients include hibiscus, lemon & orange peel, lemon grass, lemon verbena, Japanese tea, gorse and orris to hold it all together.

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