Bulldog Gin London Dry Gin, 70cl

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BULLDOG London Dry Gin has an incredibly distinctive flavour, thanks to its ingredients: twelve carefully selected and expertly crafted botanicals. Discover our bold and versatile London Dry Gin. This has become my favourite gin with an orange rind, or a lychee. It also does well with some lighter bitters. I like a neat gin with a few ice cubes. You can serve Bulldog like that, but it wasn’t my preferred serve here. Having said that, I did give it quite a good run of different serves to try it out, and it’s a very forgiving gin in that sense. It’ll go well with many tonics. So, it isn’t forceful, fair enough. But for that very reason it has its distinct niche carved out – what’s wrong with that?

Open that bottle and there’s immediately a wonderful aroma. Be careful opening it, mind. My bottle was very full. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining, but I did end up wearing some of the gin due to my over-eagerness. Manufactured in a distillery near Manchester in traditional copper pot stills, Bulldog solved the former by dialling down the juniper – the predominant ingredient in gin responsible for its bitter flavour – and reducing the ABV, or alcohol-by-volume, to 40 per cent, for a smoother finish. But it’s the infusion of 12 exotic botanicals, including Turkish white poppy, Chinese liquorice, Moroccan coriander and Asian lotus leaves, that gives the tipple its signature flavour. While Vohra worked with a master distiller to get the blend just right, the choice of ingredients was personal, influenced by his travels as the son of a diplomat. “It’s like the Silk Route – Eastern botanicals with Western know-how,” explains the 38-year-old, as we sit in his loft-like office in downtown Manhattan.Bulldog Gin is at its best as a mixing gin, and it makes a good Gin and Tonic with almost any tonic. With its smooth yet complex liquid, Bulldog is a source of inspiration to be curious about life’s possibilities and its unexpected pleasures. Bulldog is distilled on a base of triple distilled British wheat base, pot distilled and then bottled at 40% ABV. Tasting Notes Disagree sharply with your reviewer. This is the best gin this fifty-year gin drinker has ever experienced. Is a wonderful and complex/delicate gin served unmixed, except with possibly a good white vermouth. The iconic and multi-award winning, BULLDOG gin uses 100% British wheat and water to create a smooth, eminently mixable gin with multiple layers of flavour. It is handcrafted at an English distillery that has been making the highest quality gin for over 250 years.

The nose is slightly floral with lavender, juniper, and a bit of citrus. Some lime and a bit of sweet orange zest.I was taken by the fruity and earthy notes first. The lemon definitely shows through, and maybe the dragon eye is what’s taking it off in what seems like quite a sweet direction. If you’ve tried the lovely Panda Gin (which is lychee-based), the aroma is quite like that. It’s very enticing. Fresh off the sale of Bulldog London Dry Gin to Gruppo Campari, one of the world’s largest spirit makers, former JP Morgan i-banker Anshuman Vohra knows a thing or two about beating the odds. Six years into a job handling telecom mergers and acquisitions in New York, Vohra got restless, and decided to take a calculated risk on rebranding old-fashioned gin for a hipper, more discerning consumer. Months of research led him to identify two major gaps that he’d need to plug to create a winning product: Improved taste, and a new “image and personality that excited people”.

Bulldog is a modern reinterpretation of London Dry Gin, wisely crafted with exotic botanicals making it unexpectedly smooth. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s aged terribly well. The finish is short, and the curious choice of botanicals might escape even the most experienced gin taster if they weren’t called out on the bottle. Founded in the USA by a daring entrepreneur with the ambition to create the first modern Gin. This is the birthplace of Bulldog.Denne prisvindende gin med sin ikoniske flaske og 12 botanicals fra forskellige lande, er oprindeligt fra USA, men produceret i England efter en 250 år gammel opskrift. If you cannot find Dry's version (it's getting easier as the company's distribution grows), you can make your own lavender soda by combining about 2 ounces of lavender syrup with 4 to 6 ounces of club soda. Adjust these amounts to suit your taste. Denne gin har en ganske blød og harmonisk tekstur med en særpræget smag med noter af frugt og citrus, der giver ginnen en frisk karakter og en meget balanceret ‘finish’. But… Bulldog has much in common with it. And if you just want to have a nice gin and tonic to drink and relax it’s just really good choice. Not the most subtel or sophisticated but it has a really nice mixture of everything – juniper, botanicals, citrus etc. – it’s really nice balanced gin and gives you a pleasure of drinking a glass of nice, cool and realaxing gin&tonic.

The Longan (or more dramatically Dragon Eye) is a small fruit similar to a Lychee native to Southeastern Asia. Believes to have a relaxing character in traditional medicine, it’s also common in modern Asian cuisine in soups and desserts. Lotus Leaves are another traditional medicine said to keep one’s heart healthy. The leaves are often drank as if a tea. And then there’s Poppy. More than just a bagel topping, it has healing abilities as well.The immediate sense is one of complexity. That sweetness from the nose is there, as is almost a bit of a citrusy tang. The earthiness remains there too upon taste. However, none of those particular flavours seem to dominate, and you’re left with that promised smoothness. How to serve Bulldog Gin