Portobello Road Gin was created by the award-winning Portobello Star bar in Notting Hill. It is a London Dry Gin, made the old-fashioned way, with traditional botanicals and spices reminiscent of the oldest gins: juniper berries, lemon peel, bitter orange peel, coriander seeds, yellow iris, angelica root, cassia bark, licorice and nutmeg.
This gin is sold in simple bottles with a label inspired by old gin containers. Each bottle is individually numbered and signed by the bar owners. Portobello Road Gin is a handcrafted product made in small batches.
Portobello Road Nº171 70cl
34,00 €
In late 2011, three lifelong friends, Ged Feltham, Jake Burger and Paul Lane, decided to open The Ginstitute, London's premier educational institute and home to "Copernicus II," a 30-liter copper still, after amassing an amazing collection of gin and alcoholic artifacts. They discovered that if they were going to offer the opportunity to mix gin, it would not be complete without a gin that could call The Ginstitute home.
Our base spirit is distilled in England from wheat grown in England. Our nine botanicals are sourced from around the world: juniper berries and lily from Tuscany, Spanish lemon peel, bitter orange peel from Haiti or Morocco, nutmeg from Indonesia and cassia bark from Southeast Asia.
In the nine months of experimentation that followed, the character of the gin was gradually created: a little more of this, a little less of that, this one makes a good Martini, that one makes a good Negroni, well, you get the idea. Little by little something we could be proud of emerged. And so Portobello Road No. 171 gin was born.
Bottled at a 42%, these ingredients combine to create a unique and versatile gin, with enough of those robust gin flavors to make a gin & tonic that tastes like gin and not just tonic, with enough elegance to work in a Martini and, with enough depth of character and intensity to work in drinks like the Negroni or the multitude of modern cocktail creations where it's going to meet other powerful flavors.
