Drumshanbo Gunpowder Orange Citrus Gin

California Citrus is the Gunpowder edition built for the American market — and for anyone who's ever squeezed a Cara Cara orange. PJ Rigney's Shed Distillery in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, is the first new distillery in Connacht in over a century and the home of Ireland's best-selling gin, and Rigney has a habit of returning from his travels with a new botanical; this time it was the citrus groves of California. The base is the full Gunpowder recipe: juniper, angelica, orris, caraway, cardamom, coriander, star anise, and local meadowsweet steeped and distilled in medieval-style copper pot stills, with slowly dried Chinese gunpowder green tea vapor-infused through baskets. For this edition, California oranges join the oriental lemon, grapefruit, and kaffir lime in the vapor baskets, turning the citrus dial up with a sweet, sunny, distinctly Golden State character. Bottled at 43% ABV. Expect fresh orange zest and juice over the signature green-tea freshness on the nose, opening into a palate where sweet orange leads, the gunpowder tea adds a cooling, faintly tannic lift, and juniper and meadowsweet keep it recognizably Gunpowder, finishing bright with a grapefruit-peel tingle. Drinkhacker places it alongside the Sardinian Citrus as one of the distillery's unique botanical offshoots. Built for a G&T with an orange wheel, a Screwdriver-style gin highball, or a Collins. Irish craft, California sunshine.

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