Whitley Neill Parma Violet Gin, 70 cl

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Due to the fact that there are so many different botanicals to choose from, a new craze arose in the gin market over the past few years. The popularity of fruity and colorful gins like pink gin and blood orange gin has increased a ton recently. This gin uses a blend of eight botanicals a few of which are, juniper berries, angelica root, coriander, licorice, and of course violet. This combination creates a scent that is smooth and quite floral. The first thing I did was measure how much gin my decorative bottle would take. My bottle would hold 350mls of gin, so allowing for a little bit of wastage during the straining process, and me having a little taste, I measured out 380mls of gin and poured it into a large sterilised jar. Tip your crushed Parma Violets into the jar with the gin. Screw the lid on as tight as you can and give it a really good shake. Put it to one side, shaking the jar daily for about two weeks. A little more or a little less time in the jar won’t hurt. On the nose, this drink has lots of floral violet notes. The taste is floral as well with a touch of vanilla. This gin finishes with subtle peppery juniper notes.

The brand Boë is named after Franz de la Boë, who to some stories is believed to be the inventor of the spirit we call gin. Boë Gin takes pride in the quality of gin and in its ability to be distinctive by bringing new flavors to gin. This gin is really sweet and is therefore amazing for drinking neat. You could also create a sweet ‘Pamplemousse spritz’ with this gin if it’s mixed with Aperol and pink grapefruit soda garnished with some grapefruit. At first, you taste delicate and sweet violet flavors followed by the piney taste of the juniper berries. The parma violet is so popular due to the well-known British sweets from Swizzels Matlow called Parma Violets. Gins that use the parma violet often try to resemble the taste of these popular British sweets as closely as possible.

Zymurgorium prides itself on experimenting with flavors and striving for great new tastes in all sorts of drinks and food products. These products range from cheeses to syrups, to crafty beers and gins. This drink is really sweet on its own does mean that a lot of people will probably like it when it’s drunk neat. The bitter taste a gin normally offers will be toned down quite a bit. We’ve got an article about the best pink gins right here and an article about the best blood orange gins here.

All in all, violet gins make for a unique and exciting drinking experience. Whether you’re looking for a sweet and spicy gin, a dry and citrusy gin, or a fruity and floral gin, there’s a violet gin out there to satisfy your taste buds. Other gins might make use of more unique botanicals like ginger for example which will create a different flavor pallet compared to a more standard gin. The taste of violet is well balanced with the taste of juniper berries which a gin is supposed to taste like. It’s not too sweet, but sweet enough to make a nice summery variation to a gin and tonic. Boë Violet Gin Aside from pink and blood orange gins, a new kind of gin called violet gin has been popping up more and more at different brands over the past few years.

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To find out which violet gin would be the best for you to try out, it’s important to know what violet gin is exactly. Even though the violet gin is a bit sweeter due to the added violets combined with orange and lavender, you still get that great gin-specific piney juniper taste with this gin. Another difference in flavors between violet gins could come from the different kinds of violets used. As we’ve said before, most violet gins use parma violet, but not all of them do. Solway Spirits is a small-batch craft distillery located in South West Scotland. They use British suppliers for great quality ingredients. This brand may not be extremely well-known, but their gins are amazing.

As we mentioned above, this type of gin is infused with flowers from the violet family. Infusion with violet flowers creates a very distinguishable scent and flavor and often this infusion also leads to the violet hue that violet gins have. This means that the strong alcohol taste will be a lot lower than some other violet gins. This combined with the sweet violets that have been added to this gin makes for a strong sweetness.

Aside from creating great popular (flavored) gins, McQueen aspires to bring as many true innovations to as many gin lovers as possible. McQueen started out in the gin scene with 4 world-first flavors. Staffordshire started out crafting their Staffordshire Original gin in a little mining village for two years. Since then they have relocated and expanded their distillery. Whitley Neill is a sister company to the aforementioned J.J. Whitley. Just like J.J. Whitley, Whitley Neill specializes in flavored gins. Gin starts out as a neutral grain spirit similar to vodka. After this first distillation, a combination of different botanicals is infused with the clear spirit to create a unique taste pallet. Gin distillers can choose from pretty much any herb, spice, flower, root, etc. they want to create their own distinctive gin. For others, however, this added sweetness and less bitterness may mean that they might actually like a gin for the first time.

As the name may suggest, this is a relatively sweet version of a violet gin. First of all, it’s a gin liqueur which means that the Alcohol by Volume (ABV) of the gin is allowed to be lower than 37.5%. This drink has an ABV of 20%. Most of the time the parma violet is used in infusion with gins. The parma violet belongs to the exotic branch of the violet family. Most of these parma violets grow lavender flowers which have a striking fragrance. Their base gin, the Yorkshire dry gin, contains hints of sweet orange and floral lavender alongside a spicy, piney juniper. These notes translate very well to their violet gin. The first gin on the list is the violet gin from J.J. Whitley. J.J. Whitley is a brand that is well-known for making flavored gins and vodkas. The Whitley family has been distilling these spirits since 1762, so they’re bound to have a ton of experience. Gin distillers have a vast variety of different botanicals to choose from when creating a gin. This results in a ton of different and unique gins ranging from classic London dry gins to more special kinds of gin like blood orange gins and violet gins.

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Boë Violet Gin is based on their award-winning Boë Superior Gin recipe, which is known for its earthy and floral flavor notes. A few of the botanicals used in their gin are cassia bark, rose petals, orange, ginger, licorice, and almonds. Due to the strong and remarkable scent and flavor lavender has, it is used a ton in gin, but also in fragrances. What Does A Violet Gin Taste Like Whether you prefer a citrus gin, a classic gin, or a spicy, herbaceous or floral gin, you’ll find our suggestions on the right garnish to complement the flavour of your gin and tonic. When the time is up, take your sterilised bottle and using a funnel with some muslin or a coffee filter in it; strain the gin into the bottle. I found that it was best if I strained it twice, replacing the muslin with a new piece after the first straining. Doing this resulted in a clearer gin but didn’t seem to change the flavour much. It’s amazing to drink this gin neat due to the very present classic gin taste, but this drink will also work great in a spritz if it’s mixed with prosecco.