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What it tastes like
A London Dry Gin made with 10 botanicals, smooth and balanced, with juniper, citrus and light spice.
Juniper
Citrus
Warm spice
Additional information
- Gin
- Style
- England
- Origin
- 1L
- Size
- 40% ABV
- Alcohol
- 3.2 per bottle
- Standard drinks
- Juniper
- Citrus
- Warm spice
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Bombay Sapphire
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The story of Bombay Sapphire
Bombay Sapphire was launched in 1986 by the English wine merchant International Distillers & Vintners. The name looks back to the gin and tonic of British India, and the blue comes from the Star of Bombay, a violet-blue sapphire mined in what was then Ceylon. A flat-sided sapphire-coloured bottle carries a portrait of Queen Victoria. Bacardi has owned the brand since 1997.
Instead of boiling the botanicals in the spirit, Sapphire uses a carterhead still. Purchased neutral spirit is evaporated and the vapour rises through a basket holding the ten botanicals, so the flavour is picked up in the steam. They are juniper, lemon peel, liquorice, almond, orris root, angelica, coriander, cassia bark, cubeb and grains of paradise. The result is lighter and more floral than a typical copper pot-still gin.
Today it is made at Laverstoke Mill in Hampshire, where Thomas Heatherwick designed glasshouses to grow some of the botanicals. Serve it tall with tonic and a strip of lemon peel to echo the lemon in the recipe, or use it in a gimlet.
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