New Riff Distilling is pleased to release another member of our Kentucky Wild Gin family.Call it the older, wiser cousin: our usual house-distilled Kentucky Wild Gin, with the same ratio of classic and foraged gin botanicals, rested in freshly dumped Bourbon barrels.Its seven months in our used O.K.I. Bourbon barrels have lent a subtle vanilla note to the proceedings, as well as a light golden hue.Try it in place of a whiskey in an Old Fashioned, or in its ultimate home: a Martinez cocktail.
Spicebush and vanilla oak form a tantalizing duo, while wood spices tangle playfully with local juniper. Subtle oak tannin serves to amplify the dryness from angelica; orange peel is a bit more prominent. Lovely angelica dryness, continued orange peel. This non-chill-filtered gin preserves all the flavor and aroma from our copper pot still. It may cloud slightly when chilled. This is not only natural, it is delicious.
