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Songbird

Songbird
Goldfinch Sauternes Cask-Finished Gin

Category: Barrel Aged Gin

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 47%
95 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$39

Songbird
Goldfinch Sauternes Cask-Finished Gin

Category: Barrel Aged Gin

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 47%
Medium golden yellow color. Aromas and flavors of orange blossom, lemon tea and pickled ginger, dried white and yellow flowers, and green herbs macerated in Alpine honey with a round, lively, dry medium body and a tingling, complex, long finish evoking touches of spiced orange syrup, white flowers, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and dark cocoa in honey, and juniper and black pepper. A high quality sipper all alone but light enough with beautiful floral and citrus notes to be used in some complex traditional Gin applications.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Complex
Aroma Aroma: orange blossom, lemon tea and pickled ginger, dried white and yellow flowers, and green herbs macerated in Alpine honey
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with touches of spiced orange syrup, white flowers, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and dark cocoa in honey, and juniper and black pepper
Smoothness Smoothness: Tingling
Enjoy Enjoy: in cocktails, neat, on the rocks and with cigars
Cocktail Cocktails: Gin Martini, Gimlet, French 75
Bottom Line Bottom Line: A high quality sipper all alone but light enough with beautiful floral and citrus notes to be used in some complex traditional Gin applications.

The Producer

Ty Iechyd Da Distillery

The Producer

Barrel Aged Gin

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Serve in a Shot Glass
Barrel-aged gin has become a trendy spirit produced by numerous artisan distillers in America. Actually they are bringing this tradition back as barrel-aged gin has been made on the Spanish island of Menorca for more than two hundred years, with white oak barrels being the preferred vessel.

The current barrel-aged gins made in America have a brown color, derived from the bourbon barrels in which it is matured. This technique gives these gins aromas of vanilla and caramel.

These gins are served either over ice or serve as the base of cocktails such as an Old Fashioned or Manhattan.