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What is the best way to drink gin - or how do you taste gin like a pro?The simple answer is to use your nose as well as your tongue, to use all of your tongue's tastebuds - and to really concentrate on your experience. Keep these tips in mind - and you'll start to get way more from your gin tasting.This is the advice we offer during the York Gin Tasting Experience in our 16th Century shop in York. Invariably, attendees tell us the tasting tips we provide fundamentally change the way they dr …

How to choose the best gin - the perfect gin for you? You need to work out which tastes you love best, what your budget is, your emotional response to gin brands, how seriously you take sustainability, and your reaction to the design of the bottle and label.Even average pubs have 50+ types of gin to choose from. And they’re usually mainly from the big distillers. Include small distilleries like York Gin and there are literally thousands of gins to choose from, especially when you consider t …

This was our statement when we launched York Gin Chocolate & Orange(It's still part of the York Gin range.  Buy a bottle here)We've launched a new Chocolate & Orange gin in time for Christmas in our home city where the original Terry's Chocolate Orange was invented.The full-strength chocolate and orange gin is made in the York Gin distillery - only two miles from where the Terry’s Chocolate Orange was made.The Chocolate Orange was invented and manufactured in York’s Terry’s cho …

Gin is made from neutral spirit, distilled with botanicals (herbs, spices, fruit, etc - which must include juniper berries), and diluted with water to a strength of at least 37.5% ABV (alcohol by volume).Neutral spirit has been made traditionally from fermenting ingredients such as grains, potatoes, fruit and sugar cane.While the alcohol and juniper are the key ingredients, gin makers add a bewildering array of botanicals to make their gin stand out from the crowd. These include many different f …

The question: What is gin? has a pretty simple answer, namely: Gin is a distilled spirit flavoured with the juniper berry and other natural herbs and spices. In Britain, it must have an alcohol strength of at least 37.5% and the predominant flavour must be juniper.The English have been making gin for centuries – ever since the Dutch-made jenever appeared here in the 17th Century. Gin used to be a sweet drink (sugar and other flavourings were used to hide the rough taste of the alcohol). But …