Aeijst Styrian Pale Gin

500 ml / 43.5%

London Dry

$49

Pure and quietly assured, with juniper held in clean balance against gentle citrus and a soft herbal lift. Nine organic botanicals are tasted one by one before being married into the recipe, an obsessive little ritual on a southern Styrian farm where gin is still a novelty. Restrained, honest and surprisingly difficult to set down.

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Named for the Styrian dialect word for branches, Aeijst comes from the Thomann family, who distil it on their farm in the green south of Austria, a region far better known for pumpkin oil and Riesling than for gin. They work entirely with organic ingredients, tasting each of their nine botanicals on its own before deciding how it should sit in the whole. It is patient, hands-on work, and the bottle carries that conviction.

The nose is clean and composed, juniper leading with a thread of citrus behind it. On the palate it stays purist rather than plain, dry and balanced with a fine herbal warmth that lingers gently into the finish. Pour it over plenty of ice with a neutral tonic and a strip of lemon peel to let the botanicals speak for themselves.