$21
Bright lemon peel and a firm, almost old-fashioned juniper bitterness sit at the heart of this London dry, with coriander and a flick of pepper trailing behind. Built to a family recipe said to date from Joseph Bishop’s Finsbury distillery in Victorian London, it runs clean through multiple distillation. The finish turns gently sweet, a quiet piece of British history in a glass.





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Finsbury traces its name to a corner of Victorian London and to Joseph Bishop, the distiller often credited with its first recipe. By the cocktail-mad 1920s the brand had become a kind of shorthand for the English way of doing things, carried out across the Commonwealth on the strength of its juniper. The blend still follows a closely held family formula, run through several distillations to keep the spirit clear and the texture smooth.
The nose is aromatic and refreshing, all lemon peel and resinous juniper over a base of coriander. On the palate it leans markedly dry and bitter, classically structured, with a faint pepper warmth threading through the middle. The finish lengthens out gently sweet with a last hint of spice. Pour it long over ice with tonic and a wedge of lemon.
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