Zuidam Dutch Courage Aged Dry Gin 88 44%

Description

Zuidam Dutch Courage Aged Dry Gin 88 is the standard Zuidam Dutch Courage Gin simply aged in 200 litre American oak barrels for 9 months. This is something that the Dutch have been doing with Genever for many years.

Zuidam Distillers is a family owned distillery based in the town of Baarle-Nassau in southern Netherlands. They are well known for producing traditional genevers (and gin), Dutch whisky under the Millstone label and a range of liqueurs. The company was founded in 1975 by Fred van Zuidam in 1975 with one copper still. Today the company is run by Fred’s sons Patrick and Gilbert and has expanded to over three thousand square meters and there are four copper stills and over 1000 cask. Whisky production began later in 1998. Until recently all of their grain was milled in seven traditional windmills. Successful growth and an increase in production means this is no longer the case, although the grain milled by windmills is still a large component of their production. This way of milling causes almost no increase in the temperature of the grain and thus helps preserve the wonderful aromas. No artificial fragrances, colours and flavours are used.

Zuidam Dutch Courage Aged Dry Gin 88 is made by producing a primary distillate in a copper pot still which is then redistilled with the 10 botanical separately – juniper, elderflower, iris root from Italy, coriander from Morocco, angelica, sweet oranges and fresh whole lemons from Spain, licorice root from India, cardamom, whole vanilla beans from Madagascar.  Barrel ageing gives the aged gin layers of vanilla, oak and spice whilst it also remains fresh and fruity.

Bottled at 44% abv i.e. 88 proof, hence the name.