Boodles Rhubarb & Strawberry Gin

Rhubarb and strawberry is the most English dessert pairing there is, and Boodles — a London Dry dating to 1845 and named for the St. James's gentlemen's club whose members included Winston Churchill and Ian Fleming — put it in a bottle. The base is Boodles British Gin, the famously citrus-free recipe of nine botanicals: juniper, coriander, angelica root and seed, cassia, caraway, nutmeg, rosemary, and sage, distilled from British wheat in a Carter-head still at G&J Greenall, England's oldest gin distiller. That gin is then infused with rhubarb and strawberry, taking on a soft pink hue and a fresh, fruit-forward character, bottled at 35% ABV (70 proof). What keeps it from turning into candy is the base: rhubarb's natural tartness and the gin's herbal, spiced backbone — rosemary, sage, caraway — push back against the strawberry sweetness, so it reads like a garden in June rather than a jam jar. Expect fresh strawberry and tangy rhubarb on the nose with a whisper of juniper and herb, opening into a lightly sweet, gently tart palate with warm spice underneath, finishing soft and fruity. Honest note: it's a flavored, lower-proof gin, and London Dry purists should stick with the original Boodles. For summer, it's built for a pink G&T with a strawberry, a Rhubarb Collins with lemon and soda, or a Boodles Spritz with prosecco. English summer pudding, poured.

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