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Cherry blossom and fresh cucumber drift over an earthy, matcha-tinged base, with wasabi and bitter melon lending a tart, savoury edge you won’t find in any London Dry. Built on rice spirit distilled near Nagasaki’s terraces, each botanical macerated alone, it is Japan rendered in a glass. Floral, sweet-sour and genuinely strange in the best way.
Description
Each year Hamburg's Knut Hansen releases a special edition in honour of the wandering sailor who gives the gin its name, and the 2024 Yorokobi looks east to Japan. The bottle's shisa lions, torii gates and rice terraces, drawn by David Stiller, nod to a trip that turned up botanicals rarely seen in gin: sakura, umeboshi, wasabi, goya cucumber and matcha. Most telling is the base, distilled not from wheat but from rice grown near Nagasaki, each ingredient macerated and distilled separately to keep its voice clear.
The nose is floral and sweet-sour, all cherry blossom and crisp green cucumber over a whisper of bitter melon. The palate turns earthy and slightly tart, with matcha, that cool goya freshness and a flicker of spice before a long, floral close. Serve it with a light tonic and a ribbon of cucumber, letting the matcha and blossom carry the glass.
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