Handcrafted Cornish Dry Gin – Created On The Wild Cornish Coast
Tarquin’s Strawberry and Lime Gin is a fruit-gin from Cornwall in southern England. The base for the fruit gin is Tarquin’s own Cornish Dry Gin, which is made on wheatspiritus and 12 selected botanicals (including cardamom and violet). The gin, which at this time in the process holds 76% alcohol, is then infused with glue scale and English strawberries, and when the tarquin feels the balance is right, it becomes water down to 38%. Nothing added sugar!
Color: light strawberry red.
Fragrance: Beautiful scent of forest boobberries, juniper, black pepper and glue.
Taste notes: super fruic in the taste, with landfare garma, juniper and orange.
Serving suggestions: Enjoy the clean or in cocktails – try it for example in a spritz with sparkling wine and a twist of lemon peel.
Tarquin’s history starts in 2012, when a 23-year-old chef, trained at Cordon Bleu in Paris, began experimenting with a 0.7-liter pot still – and then it can not be much less. This microscopic start should later become the first distillery in Cornwall for over 100 years! After many both successful and unsuccessful experiments on the miniature boiler, Tarquin Leadbits upgraded in 2013 to a 250-liter pot still. Now he had found his perfect gin recipe, and the first bottles were sold to Gurnard Head Hotel in St. Ives, Cornwall, July 30 the same year.
Today, Tarquin’s extended to 4 distillers, of which 3 are still 250 liters and heated with direct fire. Everything is still done by hand, ranging from distillation to the matte bottle (which looks like it has been in the beach edge) waxed.
In addition to Gin, Tarquin’s also makes a pastis who has, of course, been named Cornish Pastis – not to be confused with the little pie.
