Review: Hendrick’s Gin
Posted by Arctic Wolf on May 26, 2014
Yesterday, I had a few of my friends over for a bit of a spirits tasting. I chose three aged spirits for the group to analyze (more on those in a later posting), and afterwards I made some gin cocktails for everyone to enjoy. The first gin I poured was Hendrick’s, and the cocktail which I chose to showcase the gin was the classic Tin and Tonic. The Hendrick’s and Fever Tree Tonic I served went over so well that I decided to revisit the Hendrick’s Gin review which I had written about three years ago.
The people who make Hendrick’s Gin pride themselves on being just a little quirky, and perhaps a bit eccentric. Their offbeat website revels in the odd and the peculiar and tries to convince all who peruse the site that Hendrick’s Gin is special exactly because of the things which make it odd and peculiar.
The gin is produced in Scotland, in the village of Girvin, Ayrshire by William Grant & Sons (who are perhaps better known for their whisky distillations than their gin). It is made small batches (450 litre batch size) using two unusual stills, a copper Bennett Still which has been dated to 1860, and a Carter-Head still made in 1948. These stills each serve a different purpose, but together they create a unique gin made with 11 different botanicals, and infused with cucumber and rose petals one batch at a time.
You may read my full review as well as my take on a quirky Gin and Tonic by clicking the link below:
Review: Hendrick’s Gin
Please enjoy the review and if you happen to have a bottle of Henricks’ Gin handy, do try the Hendrick’s and Fever Tree Tonic cocktail which concludes the review!
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Godzilla said
Thank You! I never understood the appeal of Hendrick’s, as a gin it’s barely there. Of the people that have recommended it to me, most have been either new to gin themselves or are friends who I know have bland tastes– perhaps it works better as an ‘introductory’ gin, but for those of us who are now many G&T’s past the novice level, it needs a lot more character to live up to the likes of Beefeater 24, Hayman’s Old Tom, Sipsmith’s etc. I do wonder if the quaint bottle and accompanying marketing helped it into the mainstream (it’s a regular spot behind the bar in pubs here in the UK). Anyway, glad you didn’t believe the hype!