With a deceivingly orange hue, it's easy to look past this gin but don't think that Saffron Gin is a merely a gimmick - it comes from a very respectable distillery and has a depth of flavour that makes it an intriguing sipper to say the least.
With a deceivingly orange hue, it's easy to look past this gin but don't think that Saffron Gin is a merely a gimmick - it comes from a very respectable distillery and has a depth of flavour that makes it an intriguing sipper to say the least.
On the nose, juniper and coriander, not saffron, are the first botanicals to stand out leaving the spice in question to emerge later. Serve with an orange wedge in a G&T.
"A little trivia for you all… The recipe for infusing the base gin (also sold as Rare Gin) with saffron goes back decades and was revived after being re-discovered by chance in the Maison Boudier archives."
Produced in a traditional pot still in small batches in Dijon, Saffron Gin is made from nine botanicals that include juniper, coriander, lemon, orange peel, angelica seeds, iris, fennel and saffron
Gabriel Boudier are well-known French distillery with a roaring reputation for liqueurs trickling back to 1874. Notably famed for their Crème de Cassis de Dijon for which they were awarded countless awards and the esteemed French Legion of Honour.
After Gabriel Boudier died in 1918, his widow sold the business to Marcel Battault who kept the trading name due to its already established reputation. In 1969 the distillery was moved from Boulevard de Strasbourg to Rue de Cluj in Dijon.