A Pink Pepper Gin from French producers Audemus, situated in the heart of Cognac. Made with hand-picked pink peppercorns and a handful of other tasty botanicals (including honey, vanilla and cardamom - all of which are macerated separately then distilled under low pressure and temperature). You'll find a good juxtaposition between sweet and spicy notes in this one...
Plenty of peppery aromas waft up, spicy but sweet at the same time. These touches are well balanced with cinnamon and clean, herbal notes.
An initial rush of pink peppercorn, followed by pine-y juniper and honey. Altogether quite a warming gin.
Spicy pepper lasts.
Spectacular - picks up peppery malty flavor of the barrel. Great in a Negroni!
I didn't think I liked gin until I tried Pink Pepper, and now my world has been happily opened up to the delicious world of G&T's. Pink Pepper is still my favorite, with its lovely, layered balance of spicy and aromatic flavors. I recommend drinking with a nice tonic like Fevertree or Fentimans – the taste of aspartame in Schweppes overpowers the intricate Pink Pepper flavors.
This is fairly awful. Doesn't really taste like gin at all. Tried it with standard Fevertree (low cal) but the cloying sweetness comes through on both the nose and the tongue. Like drinking a pot pourri. Not for me.
Tried a sample of this: without doubt one of the worst gins I've ever tasted. This is the first gin I've felt compelled to review it was that bad. On the nose all I got was pepper (unsurprising given the name) it's certainly a unique aroma as I've had another with this level of pepper. I made a dry martini using belsazar vermouth. The first hit is a very pungent spice of cardamom and pepper, very harsh and acrid this quickly makes way to a cloyingly sweet vanilla/tonka/honey flavour that has a bit of a pastry feel to it. Once this subsides it's back to the harsh spice. To me this gin makes no sense at all and lacks all sense of balance. I have tried many gins in the past and this is one of the worst I can remember. I can only assume as a G&T it must be much better (in fairness it can't be much worse).
Great Gin, esp with Fever Tree Ginger Beer as the mixer
