The Growth in the Ultra-Premium Celebrity-backed gins - Ginposium 2024
Emma Stokes ginmonkey.com
Emma will guide attendees through a tasting session featuring a selection of the finest ultra-premium gins available, including from Guild members Renais, Cygnet as well as the gin created for Brad Pitt by Guild Lifetime achievement award winner Tom Nichol.
Gins featured in this presentation
The Gardener Gin
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Smooth and Citrus
A certified 100% organic London Dry Gin made in France in a copper still.
Ideal mixer: Classic tonic
Recommended garnish: Orange peel & rosemary sprig
Ideal serve: Perfect sipped neat, or a Dry Martini, G&T, Negroni.
ABV: 42%
Spirit base: Wheat
Renais Gin
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Bold and Bright
Bright tasting notes of white wine minerality, fresh citrus, honey, garden herbs, flowers & juniper.
Ideal mixer: Classic tonic
Recommended garnish: Lemon twist
Ideal serve: Terroir Martini or over ice. with Lemon twist
ABV: 40%
Cygnet 22 Gin
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Smooth and Spice
Warm juniper and spice is soothed by gentle notes of vanilla and chamomile as Manuka honey adds complexity
Ideal mixer: Classic tonic
Recommended garnish: Citrus wheel
Ideal serve: Neat on the rocks
ABV: 44%
Aviation Gin
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Bold and Savoury
Like the world's finest gins, Aviation is distilled using a proprietary maceration recipe that produces a pure medley of botanical flavour.
Ideal mixer: Classic tonic
Recommended garnish: A single brandied Cherry
Ideal serve: Ovation with an Orange slice
ABV: 42%
Spirit base: Rye
Papa Salt Gin
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Smooth and Spice
Showcasing native Australian botanicals in an aromatic, spicy gin that finishes surprisingly smoothly.
Ideal mixer: Soda Water
Recommended garnish: Orange Wedge
Ideal serve: Papa Salt + Soda Water with wedge of Orange
ABV: 42.8%
Spirit base: Cane
Y-Gin
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Smooth and Classic
Juniper, cardamon and earthy-sweet liquorice lead into Yorkshire rhubarb's floral tartness before the pleasant warm finish of ginger.
Ideal mixer: Classic tonic
Recommended garnish: Wedge of Pink Grapefruit
Ideal serve: Dry martini
ABV: 40%
Spirit base: Apple
Sweet Gwendoline French Gin
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Nuanced and Citrus
Described as a sipping gin, does not require additional ingredients, mixers, etc. to enhance its flavour, a flexible and versatile base
Ideal mixer: Classic tonic
Recommended garnish: Lemon peel
Ideal serve: G&T with whole pink or black peppercorns and Lime wheel & mint sprig for garnish
ABV: 40%
Spirit base: Grape
Artingstall’s Brilliant London Dry Gin
Gin-Note™ Flavour Guidance
Impressive and Bright
Entertaining gin designed by filmmaker Paul Feig for people who didn't realise how just much they could love gin.
Ideal mixer: Classic tonic
Recommended garnish: Lemon peel
Ideal serve: Dry Martini
ABV: 42%
About Emma
Emma founded Gin Monkey in 2009. It now reaches a global audience on social media. The site drives forward the gin category through articles and posts across multiple social channels. She is protector-general of World Gin Day, which was also started in 2009. It now reaches a global audience of over 200 million people (based on the 2017 statistics).
She has collaborated and worked with countless brands and companies, in roles from brand consultant to gin tutor and educator (including teaching members of the public to distil) As well as gin education she is also passionate about cocktails and published her first book, The Periodic Table of Cocktails in 2015. She also collaborated with That Boutiquey Gin Company to make a gin for World Gin Day 2017.
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