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What is Easter Gin?Easter Gin is any gin with flavours of either chocolate or hot cross buns. Chocolate Eggs ... and Chocolate Gin? Easter time is definitely the time for overindulging chocolate - with Easter eggs the most popular treat on Easter Sunday. But there are quite a few chocolate or cocoa gins on the market now. These include York Gin Chocolate & Orange, a gold medal winner at the New York Spirits Competition. York has a history of chocolate making going ba …

York Gin is having an interesting time at the moment with a mix of real challenges (like many other businesses) and some amazing opportunities.We have just released York Gin Rhubarb - due to popular demand for this iconic Yorkshire flavour.Sales have been through the roof and feedback has been amazing - with the Daily Telegraph including the gin as one of the best five gins for Spring 2023. York Gin is also Gin of the Month for March at the mighty Craft Gin Club - a huge opportunity to reach ten …

Posties across the UK have been delivering tens of thousands of York Gin bottles this week.York Gin is March’s Gin of the Month with the UK’s biggest gin subscription club.The exclusive Jorvik Spring gin is now with over 50,000 Craft Gin Club members - along with other Yorkshire treats.The club is the biggest in the UK, shipping tens of thousands of bottles each month to gin lovers. In 2016, its founders appeared on TV’s Dragons Den - and four of the dragons wanted to invest!Craft Gin Club's exp …

By popular demand, York Gin has launched a rhubarb gin - as the brand celebrates its fifth birthday.Customers have been asking for this flavoured gin for years. And now it has appeared - just as the York Gin brand reaches its five-year milestone.Buy a bottle of rhubarb ginSee the full flavoured gin range.The gin has seven classic botanicals including juniper berries, grains of paradise and angelica along with the all-important fresh rhubarb. After distillation a natural sugar syru …

Gin glasses: Which is the best glass for a gin and tonic? The Copa de Balon Balloon glass or the hi-ball tumbler?Answer: Both have their merits and it's down to personal taste. But if you want a quick answer - the Copa can be a bit unwieldy and the biggest thing to remember is to have plenty of ice in either gin glass!The debate about the best gin glasses to use for your G&Ts has come about from the rise of the Copa de Balon (Balloon) glass – an import from the Basque country and the Spanis …