When you lovingly run a blog or an email magazine such as this one, it can happen that complete strangers just send you their products. We do know why – if we like it, chances are we might write about it. This can include quite unusual things or things we have often seen, heard or drunk before. As happened with a bottle of Skin Gin. What in the world are we supposed to write about Gin? What’s special about that? Well, in the case of Skin Gin, quite a few things. There’s the elaborately designed bottle, for one, that is hand-wrapped in hot stamped leather foil by a small family business. Nice, but not quite enough for us. Gin is still Gin. We took the bottle home and tried some of it one lovely evening. Peppermint?! Lemon?! Coriander?! What might give Gin purists and British nobility the cold shivers actually turned out to be a true taste explosion. While classic gin gets its intense taste from juniper only, Skin Gin adds Moroccan mint as a second main note next to juniper berries as well as five further ingredients called botanicals. Citrus peel from Spanish oranges and grapefruits as well as limes and lemons from Italy and coriander from Vietnam, to be exact. Another special characteristic: instead of adding the botanicals to the wheat mash as is tradition, they are distilled separately in special equipment (called “Geistkorb”) that draws off the rising alcoholic vapours. This way, 100% of the essentials oils they contain can be extracted. The result is incredibly mild and intense. A taste explosion, just like we said. The next morning, none of us could quite remember how the evening had ended. But we all agreed it had been legendary. And there was no mean hangover to ruin the good mood, even though we’re talking about an alcoholic strength of approx. 42%. A good sign. We’re giving away one bottle of Skin Gin ‚Edition Blanc‘ to the particularly adventurous amongst you. Send us an email with the subject ‚PEPPERMINT PRINCE‘ to hurra@muxmaeuschenwild.de. Cheers, my dears!
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Skin Gin |  0,5 litre bottle 43,70 Euro | skin-gin.com |