Death’s Door Gin: If This Is What Death Tastes Like, Then Just Kill Us Now!

This week we’ve got another high and mighty, badass, renegade of a gin for you guys straight from the gun toting, freedom loving land that is the US of A: Death’s Door gin. And if this is what death bloody tastes like, then you can just kill us now! This is one seriously straight up gin that does simplicity like a seasoned pro. It’s damn good. So much so that drinking it brought us more happiness than if bacon had turned up at our front door with a Sega Master System rigged up with Alex Kidd in Miracle World! Yeah, that's some good happiness right there. So, before we attempt take our own cherished lives, purely in hope that we’ll be greeted on a marshmallow cloud with a never-ending supply of the stuff, let’s take a look at this gin’s facts and how it came to be the tantalizing apple of our hazy eye.

Arising from the uninterrupted shorelines, stunning scenery and rolling hills of Washington Island, Wisconsin, Death’s Door gin brings uniformity and utter brilliance to this somewhat, at times, overcomplicated world of gin. Distilled with just three boisterous botanicals; juniper berries, coriander and fennel seeds, this gin proudly proves that you don’t have to throw in the entire contents of Alan Titchmarsh’s garden to deliver a bloody cracking bottle of the stuff. With their own vodka used as a base - made up of locally grown wheat and malted barley from Chilton, Wisconsin - the guys at Death’s Door proudly declare; “Death's Door Gin has a full London Dry flavor without all of the bitterness due of our extraction process and the base spirit we use.” And these guys have a crystal clear conscience too. All their spent mash is used to feed local hogs and dairy farms, and most of their products used are sourced locally to reduce their carbon footprint and support local businesses. Nice work fellas, nice work! So, now you have some groundings and without further a due, let’s get to it.

Well, it really is a one hell of a delight on your nose. We even raised our liquor-loving arms up to the heavens in pure celebration of those gratifying aromas. Soft, sweet and charmingly spicy. Juniper imprudently fronts this rock band of a gin, firing out glorious hits of juniper-y goodness quicker than a machine gun wielding Arnie! Waves of sweet

liquorish roll on in from the fennel and you get a spirited punch of pepper from the coriander. There is a subtle alcohol hit, but one that gently strokes your nose rather than punching you square in the face! If glue sniffers changed their hit of choice to this formidable beauty, well the world would probably be full of happier and more productive individuals!

But once you get this down you you'll soon find that, once again, juniper turns up as the bell of this audacious ball. Riding hard on to your tongue loud and so bloody proud, screaming from the high heavens that, yes, it has arrived. And arrived it has, in style! But it's not on its own for long though, its second in command, coriander,

wanders its sharp way in with a spicy warmth of delight, giving this gin a peppery hit that would make your pepper grinder quiver, and a freshness that could rival the Queen’s bed sheets. The weird thing about this gin is that there's a punch of citrus snaking its way out the glass too even though no peels are used in the botanical mix - we detect some wizardry going on here!

But it’s the third, reveling musketeer of this gin that delivers a finish so beautifully sweet that it makes sugar taste like rat poison! Bow down to the fennel, people; bow down. Sumptuous, candy-like, liquorish goodness oozes through on the finish, delivering a glorious sweetness that pairs so well with its botanical brothers. On the way down it’s so soft, so enthralling that it feels like it’s beautifully seeping into every part of our calamitous soul, calming us, soothing us but invigorating us to the very core. It lingers around as well, like next doors cat at your back door, reminding you just how good it actually is.

But what we love so much about this gin is its sheer simplicity. It’s magic. You can single out each botanical perfectly. From the dominance of the wild, locally grown juniper, to the fresh, spiciness from the coriander and those insanely delectable liquorish blows that add such a complex sweetness and the taste that would knock the bloody socks off the most tightly laced foot! And it’s that simplicity that makes it so great. It doesn’t need to be over complicated; it doesn’t need to be arduous. It knows who it bloody is and it’s unashamed of that. It has that great audacity to it's character. So to really experience the utter palatable brilliance of this gin, drink it neat, maybe with a few cubes thrown in. Simplicity at it’s best.

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