Description
It contains three 5cl miniatures of their much-loved gins. First up is the Schwarzwald Sloe Gin created by macerating Black Forest sloes for three months in their multi-award-winning gin. We love to sip this neat alongside a cheeseboard. Next up is the classic Schwarzwald Dry Gin that shot them into upper echelons of gin making. Crafted with 47 handpicked botanicals including tangy lingonberries it’s a peppery delight loved by connoisseurs and bartenders throughout the world. And finally there’s the Barrel Cut which has been matured for six months in lightly-toasted 100-litre mulberry wood casks handmade by a cooperage in Pfalz. This adds amazing notes of raisin Medjool dates agave-roasted figs freeze-dried cherries milk chocolate caramels polished walnut antiques and worn leather to the nose and a palate that’s something akin to being pitched headfirst into a spice shop. Sip it as you might a fine Scotch or give a classic gin cocktail a woody twist. There really is not better way to get to know this legendary gin producer making it an ultimate gift or stocking filler.
Monkey 47 is produced by Black Forest Distillers in memory of a man called Commander Montgomery Collins who lived in Berlin at the end of the Second World War and sponsored an egret monkey called Max at the local zoo.