Crater Lake Gin

Crater Lake Gin has exactly one botanical, and that's the point. Bendistillery — now Crater Lake Spirits — was founded in Bend, Oregon in 1996, one of the true pioneers of American craft distilling, with a mission to make gin and vodka from natural ingredients and pure Cascade Mountain water. Its gin is a return to what the distillery calls the original flavor of gin: wild juniper berries, hand-picked in the high desert of central Oregon, infused into the spirit after distillation in the Prohibition-era compound method, with no other botanicals to muddy the aroma. That infusion is what gives the gin its faint straw-gold tint. Bottled at a powerful 95 proof (47.5% ABV). The reviews are honest about what you're getting. Drinkhacker called it the purest essence of juniper — pungent, earthy, herbaceous, sharp, and missing the citrus and spice most gins lean on — while The Gin Is In found it bright and refreshing, proof that a well-made compound gin doesn't need to taste like gasoline and juniper, and called it a spectacular gin for Martinis. Simple Cocktails went further: the best-tasting Martini they'd ever had, silky and smooth with a bit of spice in the finish. Proof66's top reviewer: if you want juniper, you will not find one better; if you want citrusy, floral, complex, this is not your gin. Expect evergreen needles like cutting your own Christmas tree, then honey-lemon tea. The juniper lover's gin, and a Martini legend among Oregonians.

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