Twisted Nose Premium Dry Gin – World Gin Award Winner – 70cl Gin Bottle

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Tim Miller has lived in the local area all his life and in Alresford for the past 15 years. He runs Alresford-based marketing agency Thomas Miller Creative with his colleague Sue Thomas. Through this agency they are also involved in promoting local theatre groups, the annual Alresford 10k Run and Perins School productions.

Smooth with a surprising depth of flavour Dorset Smugglers Vodka from the Bournemouth Brewing Company distillery is made by Cristophe Mathers. After studying chemistry Cristophe became a brewer making award-winning ales at the Bournemouth Brewery. The vodka was happenstance as Cristophe explains: “A home distiller came in to see us out of the blue and asked what we did with our ullage (waste beer) at which point I gave him some and he distilled it. Voila he had created beer vodka from our old beer – and so I thought maybe I’d give it go.” The beers are light, refreshing and perfectly carbonated, delicious yet subtle flavours infused from their own hops makes Baynhams’ Beers great. There’s also a cheeky bottle behind the bar here at The Gin Palace to try too if you’re popping in for a drink on a Friday or Saturday night. Twisted Nose Gin takes your senses on a journey into Hampshire’s fragrant green world of watercress, crystalline chalk streams and long summer days spent at the water’s edge. This cookie is set by Rubicon Project to control synchronization of user identification and exchange of user data between various ad services.

And Sam says the response has been "crazy" since appearing on the show. He said: "We've had a massive uplift in business, I'd say about probably 500% this week." Each part of creation and distillation is carefully considered resulting in an intensely herbaceous yet delicately floral gin, developing into spicy undertones and finishing with a peppery sparkle. Nestled in the heart of Hampshire, they brew a range of award-winning real ales with pure Hampshire water, yeast and barley along with the finest hops. The award-winning wines are made in the traditional Champagne method, from classic grape varieties and spend around three years on the lees before being released to the public.

The LIVE virtual tastings are carried out in the last week of the month. Please keep an eye on our socials for confirmed dates! Local event: " The Alresford Music Festival! We recognise the immense talent and dedication it takes to play and perform live music. The festival has always been keen to promote young musicians and give them opportunities to perform and give the local community the opportunity to enjoy live music from all genres." Caught in glinting, swirling, blue-green glass, Twisted Nose invites you to taste with your eyes even before you’ve pulled the oak stopper to breathe in the fragrance as you pour the spirit. The taste is intensely herbaceous yet delicately floral, beginning with soft sweet citrus notes, developing spicy undertones and finishing with a peppery sparkle from the fresh watercress grown at the distillery.

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Wasabi is more usually found growing alongside spring fed streams in the Japanese mountains. But a Dorset or Hampshire watercress farm, with its abundance of springs that are naturally rich in minerals and nutrients, is a pretty good alternative. Since being planted here a few years ago the wasabi has thrived, although in a fine English summer these shade-loving plants sometimes require some extra shade from a thoughtfully draped cloth. Freshly grated Dorset grown wasabi is combined with six other botanicals to create Twisted Nose Wasabi Vodka. Full of flavour and spice, it’s the perfect vodka to add extra punch to a Bloody Mary.

In contrast to the very selective conditions that wasabi needs gorse will grow anywhere. Including along the paths down to the beaches in Southbourne, which on a hot spring day are perfumed with the coconut aroma of these golden yellow flowers. Rupert Holloway makes Conker Spirit Dorset Dry Gin in Bournemouth using gorse flowers collected in a range of places from Golden Cap in West Dorset to the New Forest in Hampshire. It’s one of the locally sourced ingredients in his gin, the others include samphire and elderberry. Rupert creates his award-winning gin in small batches at Conker HQ in Southbourne where those Dorset botanicals are combined with classic juniper, coriander seed, angelica, orris, cassia and Seville orange livened up with lime peel which adds a crisp, almost dry sweetness. Conker Spirit is Dorset’s first Gin Distiller and won Drinks Product of the Year in the Dorset Magazine Food, Drink & Farming Awards in 2015. Si, who made an impassioned speech at a cost of living rally in Newcastle in October, added: "It's a very different country to what it is 18 months ago, people are properly up against it." Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. This is a small batch gin distilled in a traditional copper pot still, a descendent of the alembic still, which is used to make batches of spirits, unlike the continuous distillation of large, more commercial column stills. Pot stills produce a very fine grade of spirit. The botanicals are gently crushed, mixed and macerated pure, neutral spirit to release the oils that give the gin its characteristic flavours. The spirit and macerated botanicals are then re-distilled in the pot still and only the heart of the distillate is used for the final bottling of this superb Hampshire Gin. The spirit is let down to 40% ABV with local New Forest Spring Water. Angelica – remember the green, crystallised stuff people used to bung on the top of cakes, that is from the Angelica root.

Another thing I love about working with the fresh ingredients is that no batch is exactly the same. Talking to Ron at the salad farm he explained that the watercress he had just harvested was very young; the first crop. So it would have a lovely fresh vibrant taste but wouldn’t be as firey as the watercress harvested later in the season that has had time to mature. I just think that’s so interesting and wonderful. So no excuse saying you have a bottle of the gin in the cupboard – drink up and buy a new one each season for the full flavours! To support and balance the watercress it’s carefully paired with nine other botanicals – including juniper, locally grown lavender and coriander from the South Downs – which is distilled slowly to maintain their fresh and delicate aromas. Our Winchester Dry Gin™, launched on world gin day 2017 at the great hall in Winchester, is our tribute to our home city and was inspired by King Arthur's round table hanging in the hall.