A terrific little gift set from popular German gin brand, Monkey 47.
This package includes delightful 50ml bottles of Monkey 47 expressions, including their standard Schwarzwald Dry Gin, a barrel aged gin and their sloe gin.
The Schwarzwald Dry Gin is made with botanical ingredients from the Black Forest in Germany, and offers notes of forest floor, sweet citrus, bittersweet juniper, lingonberries, blackberries, rich rooty spice, apples, pears and dried herbs.
Monkey 47 Barrel Cut is a limited edition expression, that takes the standard Schwarzwald Dry Gin and treats to a barrel maturation of 180 days in new 110 litre custom made casks of toasted mulberry wood – which were traditionally used to mature liqueurs made in the Black Forest.
The end result is a gin with lush berry and fruit notes, accompanied by juniper and sweet, fragrant woodiness.
Monkey 47’s Sloe Gin also begins with the brand’s complex and distinctive Schwarzwald Dry Gin, which is combined with handpicked sloe berries from the Black Forest. This mixture is then left to mature in earthenware vessels for four weeks. During this period, the mixture separates and sediment settles at the bottom of each container, but Monkey 47 takes care to use a special hydropress machine to extract maximum flavour.
The final product is a drier style of sloe gin with the distinctive Monkey 47 style, featuring notes of fresh fir trees, sweet berries, citrus and warming spice. Excellent in cocktails, splashed into mulled wine or sipped ice cold.
This Kiosk set, with its superb circus-like packaging is a brilliant introduction to Monkey 47’s gin, and a great gift for any gin lover.