Now let's talk about the gin itself, of the 11 botanicals that you've included, seven of those are native to India. Can you talk us through each of them and why they were included?

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Thousands of brands from across the globe with their unique experience and flavors, all under one name- Living Liquidz. Founded in the year 1970, we are now the leading and one of the foremost family-owned brands in the country that provides alcohol delivery. Lush Life Merchandise is here – we’re talking t-shirts, mugs, iphone covers, duvet covers, ipad covers and more covers for everything! and more! Radico Khaitain’s President of International Business, Sanjeev Banga, gave us a very rare interview in early 2019, offering a bit of insight into the company’s decision, after all these years, to launch a Gin. “We launched RAMPUD Indian Single Malt in April 2016, and since then have been working closely with our distributor in Europe and the USA,” he explains. “We witnessed the resurgence of Gin in these markets and also discovered that the G&T actually originated in India. The launch of a premium Indian Tonic Water got us thinking… why not create an Indian Craft Gin?” Susan: You would think – it’s so late? When you say Indian craft gin, how would you even start to make it? Other than the juniper, the coriander seed, or the usual things, how did you approach finding that perfect recipe? Jodhpur is a London Dry Gin inspired by India, made in England and features botanicals like coriander, orange, lemon, grapefruit peel and more and has a good balance of bitterness and sweetness.The Botanist is an Islay gin made by Bruichladdich Distillery, having big notes of citrus, delicate menthol and flowers.

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If you strengthen that fact, like for example, the new world whiskies, once it was only Scottish, now Japanese, Australia, Indian, everybody’s on the scene. This was a new world gin. So, what we have to do, we have to just enhance the fact that the country of origin, where it is being produced, is India. Try to associate it with India and accordingly, they will register that India means this flavor and let them do whatever they want to do.The whole idea was to give India to the world. He shortlisted coriander for a little bit of spicy notes. Then he also shortlisted Vetiver. Vetiver, which was actually invented in India, the roots have cooling properties, and the grass is used again for decoration or garnish purposes. This was found near the fields in and round Jaisalmer. This is the Northern part of India. Jaisalmer is situated in the Northwestern part of India. Jaisalmer Indian craft gin comes 2019 from Radico Khaitan, one of the oldest whisky distillers in India. This is a triple-distilled neutral grain spirit which is re-distilled in a traditional copper pot. As for the flavours, they are made using ancient Indian herbs that help retain the original flavour of the juniper berries. It has 11 botanicals of which seven are sourced from all over the country such as coriander, vetiver, sweet orange peel, lemongrass, Darjeeling green tea leaves, cubeb pepper, etc.

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These botanicals are from the 125-year-old English importing business and the gin itself is made in England at Thames Distillers.

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The most important thing would be how a bartender or how anybody else would try to experiment with an Indian gin. If we put ourselves in their shoes, how they would be experiencing it, we thought that, if they have an idea and they associate Jaisalmer with India and they think about India, they think that, India means maybe spicy. Kunal: The basic reason was that, as I told you, it was a no brainer because Jaisalmer is one of the most beautiful cities in India and plus the botanicals were coming from there. We could incorporate that luxury into the bottle. Jaisalmer was a reflection of the gin we wanted to present. The main flavors are of cucumber and Bulgarian rose and the gin is bottled in a beautiful dark-brown bottle. It was named as 'Best Gin in the World' in 2003 by Wall Street Journal.

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Handcrafted carefully in the Scottish Highlands, Caorunn expertly infuses 5 locally explored gin botanicals including rowan berry, blush apple and dandelion. Third Eye Distillery launched its first gin, Stranger & Sons , in September 2018 in Goa, where it is produced. "Our botanicals were crafted together taking inspiration from our kitchens and farmers," says Sakshi Saigal, who co-founded Stranger & Sons Gin with Vidur Gupta and her husband Rahul Mehra, who is also co-founder of Gateway Brewing Co. and SVAMI artisanal tonic waters and mixers. I had a lot of discussion with my master blender when we were working on the blend for our Jeisalmer Gin. If you see worldwide bottles happening as not many people were going overboard on botanicals. So today you have some gins, which talk of about 200, 250 botanicals as well. And when we were talking to our consumers and the trade partners, we realized that in a rush to add more botanicals, the gin was actually losing its soul. So we wanted to retain the soul of gin, which is Juniper berries, but then add some Indian-ness to that, add some freshness to that. And that's the reason we zeroed in only 11 botanicals. And then as I mentioned in India, the herbs and the knowledge of herbs has been age-old tradition. So we wanted to utilize that knowledge into the Jaisalmer blend.Sampling the gin neat, you get a smoothness of liquorice with a very evident orange zest. Gentle heat from the cubeb pepper leaves a long lingering presence.