Consider the Jaffa cake. A timeless treat. Now, if something is delicious, chances are someone will make a gin with it, and that’s exactly what has happened here. Jaffa Cake Gin is distilled with oranges, fresh orange peel, cocoa powder and Jaffa cakes. Actual Jaffa cakes. As in “Right, we could eat these yummy Jaffa cakes, or we could put the Jaffa cakes in this vacuum still and make Jaffa Cake Gin.” It’s that kind of situation.
The result is just like you’d expect - full-on Jaffa cake tastiness built around a distinctive base of crisp juniper. The label claims it’ll make the best Negroni mankind has ever seen, but we’ll let you be the judge of that one - though you will get top marks if you stick a Jaffa cake on your glass like a citrus wheel garnish.
Zingy orange (marmalade-esque) is swiftly overtaken by a rich and earthy chocolate undertone. Hints of vanilla-rich cake and just a touch of almondy-goodness. A solid backbone of juniper brings up the rear.
Jaffa cakes! Perhaps not surprising, but the resemblance is uncanny. Nice balance and great poise. The flavour never oversteps the mark - this is still resolutely 'a gin'. Delicately sweet - not sickly or in any way liqueur-like.
The orange-y palate fades into unctuous hot cocoa, and a note of bitter dark chocolate remains to the last, ably shored up by the piney tang from the juniper.
Does what it says on the tin, this one. Nicely integrated, and extremely crowd-pleasing.
I really did not expect this to taste like Jaffa cakes but boy oh boy, this is fantastic. Can’t see it lasting long so have ordered another bottle. If you like Jaffa cakes you will love this!
Do you like Jaffa Cakes? Do you like gin? If the answer to both questions is yes, then you must buy a bottle as that's what's inside it! A smooth and easy drink, and very more-ish, too!
This is the Heston Blumenthal of gin !! It mess’s with your mind ! Exactly what it says on the bottle, you feel like you’ve just eaten a Jaffa Cake, absolutely brilliant. Second bottle already ordered
WTF is this sorcery? How did they manage to get that exact flavour in there? Lots of people moaning about it not being 'ginny' enough, but what you would expect when the label says jaffa cake flavour? You can just buy a straight gin and then if you like jaffa cakes, buy this one, it doesn't seem that difficult really. Defo recommended if you have a sweet tooth, novelty alcopop? ...maybe but it has a place in the drinks cabinet I feel.
Definite chocolate and orange but not even a hint of anything even resembling gin. Too sweet for me
