The Blowing Stone Crabapple & Royal Ginger Gin

Gin description

The third release in the Ashdown Series is our Crabapple & Royal Ginger gin. Using our delicious London Dry recipe as a base, we use locally sourced apples and fresh ginger to create an intriguing gin which is both sweet and smooth – balanced with a subtle gingery zing at the same time. Soldiers from both the Anglo-Saxon and invading Viking armies would have foraged for wild apples – known as ‘crabbe’ – as they traversed the Kingdoms of England. In the 9th Century, ginger was a luxury experienced almost exclusively by the royal courts and was most likely imported from the Mediterranean region by spice merchants. Alfred the Great would have certainly enjoyed a sumptuous combination of fresh fruits enriched with exotic spices such as ginger. Fragrant with a bold juniper heart alongside sweet apple, herbs, citrus peel and spices. Softly spicy with some warmth and a delicate ginger zing before a complex, rounded finish.