Juniper berry: the herbaceous and aromatic “fruit” of the cypress tree is the only ingredient required to classify a spirit as gin. Beyond that, gin provides a beautiful and boozy blank slate for distillers to impart their creativity, from herbs, flowers, and fruits to more unexpected and exotic ingredients.
Take these five unique gins: one is infused with prized pink and white strawberries from Japan. Another showcases botanicals that were hand-foraged from the only UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve in Wales. And the addition of an all-natural indigo-colored ingredient in another means that the gin actually changes color when mixed with popular cocktail ingredients like tonic water or
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