Serve The Lakes Gin with plenty of ice and top with Fever Tree Mediterranean tonic. Garnish with a slice of pink grapefruit to complement the citrus botanicals Originally launched in 2014, The Lakes Gin has become a well-established player in the category. Now over five years old, the distillery has given its flagship gin some love, amending the recipe and giving the brand a major facelift. The result is hugely positive. Read my review to find out! The Lakes Elderflower Gin Liqueur Translation missing: en-GB.products.product.variant_sold_out_or_unavailable

This cookie is used to a profile based on user's interest and display personalized ads to the users. So what does the new The Lakes Gin taste like? And is the reformulation an improvement on the original. I was always a fan of the latter so it was intriguing to blind taste them both neat and with tonic to find out! This is quite a deviation on the original recipe which contained botanicals such as bilberry, heather, hawthorn and mint, many of them foraged from the local area. From a brand perspective, I’d perhaps have liked to have seen The Lakes keep some of these foraged ingredients in the new recipe and retain that connection of provenance. DistillationThe Lakes Gin uses 9 botanicals in their reformulated recipe. These are juniper, coriander, angelica, orris root, cassia bark, liquorice, bitter orange, sweet orange and lemon peel. Having tried a few garnish options I settled on the distillery’s recommended grapefruit wedge. For tonic, I found it worked best with Fever-Tree Mediterranean light. By steeping the botanicals overnight like loose-leaf tea, they interact freely with the warm spirit to encourage the essential oils to release more slowly, protecting their delicate nature. The traditional copper pot still then runs slow and long to extract the maximum amount of flavour.

Lakes Salted Caramel Vodka Liqueur Translation missing: en-GB.products.product.variant_sold_out_or_unavailable A regularly updated seasonal menu is available Monday to Saturday from 11am to 5pm, with Sunday lunch served during the same hours. The Lakes Gin is best served with ice, Fever-Tree Mediterranian tonic water and a wedge of grapefruit.The Lakes Pink Grapefruit Gin - Distinctively zesty pink grapefruit vigour meets the resounding juniper notes of The Lakes Gin. Gathers information for WordPress by themselves, first party analytics tool about how WP services are used. A collection of internal metrics for user activity, used to improve user experience.