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At Spirit Works, our award-winning California distillery, our Gin is infused with old-world and local botanicals including orris, angelica root, cardamom, coriander, fresh zested oranges and lemons, as well as unique hibiscus.

Gin, by definition, must feature juniper as the predominate botanical and must be bottled at 40% abv or above. Now some of you may know this, but many do not. It is NOT your Grandma's sloe gin or that s**t you drank in high school. Our traditional Sloe Gin, made with real whole sloe fruit, not from concentrate or syrup. Sloe gin is deliciously complex but also very easy to enjoy.

To finish our sloe gin is surprisingly dry and tannic with slight almond notes. The palate brings ripe sweetness, fresh acidity, and sour cherry with the sloe berries imprinting that unique tartness, warmth, and depth of flavor. On the nose, you’ll find notes of pomegranate and cranberry. On sight alone, the sloe berries give Sloe Gin a darker color. Sloe Gin is made with regular gin, so it does display some of those lovely herbal, juniper undertones you would expect. You’ve heard about the Sloe Gin Fizz? That’s a summer cocktail, right? How about a Sloe Royale? No? Keep reading. Today, sloe gin is enjoyed in a variety of excellent classic and newly crafted cocktails. Traditionally, sloe gin became somewhat of a winter specialty in Europe as the berries ripen in the Autumn, are added to gin, and then it’s decanted around the holidays with family keeping warm by the fire during the cold winter. The British, ingenious folk that they are, did find a way to make good use of the wild berry - they steeped it in gin to give the fragrant spirit a bit more personality, added some sugar, and Sloe gin was born! Yay for us! Unlike more popular berries, sloe berries are quite tart and astringent, which is why you won’t often see them topping a cheesecake. These dark, small, and kind of unpopular berries grow in the wild around northern Europe as hedgerows, and they’re particularly common in the UK. Meet Prunus spinosa, better known as sloe berries or blackthorn plums.

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