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Mockingbird Old Tom Style Gin

Category: Old Tom Gin

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 44%
92 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$35

Songbird
Mockingbird Old Tom Style Gin

Category: Old Tom Gin

Date Tasted:
Country: USA
Alcohol: 44%
Light straw color. Aromas and flavors of candied orange with clover honey, lime and green mango, canned pineapple, and vanilla with a round, lively, dry medium body and a tingling, interesting, medium-long finish conveying suggestions of vanilla with lemon curd, sage, mint, and bay leaf, and poached pear. A complex mix of fruits and savory spices with a delightful honeyed grain tone.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Spicy & Complex
Aroma Aroma: candied orange with clover honey, lime and green mango, canned pineapple, and vanilla
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with suggestions of vanilla with lemon curd, sage, mint, and bay leaf, and poached pear
Smoothness Smoothness: Tingling
Enjoy Enjoy: with drops of water, with cigars, on the rocks, neat and in cocktails
Cocktail Cocktails: Gin Martini, Gimlet, French 75
Bottom Line Bottom Line: A complex mix of fruits and savory spices with a delightful honeyed grain tone.

The Producer

Ty Iechyd Da Distillery

The Producer

Old Tom Gin

Spirits Glass Rock Clear.jpg
Serve in a Rocks Glass
Old Tom Gin is the last remaining example of the original lightly sweetened gins that were so popular in 18th-century England. The name comes from what may be the first example of a beverage vending machine. In the 1700s some pubs in England would have a wooden plaque shaped like a black cat (an "Old Tom") mounted on the outside wall. Thirsty passersby would deposit a penny in the cat’s mouth and place their lips around a small tube between the cat’s paws. The bartender inside would then pour a shot of Gin through the tube and into the customer’s waiting mouth. Until fairly recently limited quantities of Old Tom-style Gin were still being made by a few British distillers, but they were, at best, curiosity items.

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