Archipelago Botanical Gin

ARC Botanical Gin is the Philippines' first craft gin — and Wine Enthusiast's blind panel scored it 92 points. Full Circle Craft Distillers in Manila built it around a question nobody had asked: what does a gin from a country of 7,000 islands taste like? The answer is 28 botanicals, 22 of them sourced and foraged across the archipelago. Four Filipino citrus fruits — fresh pomelo, dalandan, calamansi, and dayap — give it a citrus signature no European gin can copy; Benguet pine from the Cordillera highlands, fresh mango, and the native flowers sampaguita, ylang-ylang, and kamia add the rest, all anchored on Italian juniper and a base of whole-kernel French winter wheat grown in the Champagne region, which adds a faint caramel roundness. Bottled at 45% ABV. Wine Enthusiast found bold cardamom and anise with a hint of gingerbread on the nose, a floral mid-palate, and pine and licorice on the exhale. Expect bright pomelo and calamansi up front with earthy coriander and savory juniper, opening into a layered palate of citrus, floral perfume, cinnamon, and black pepper, finishing clean and balanced with a cooling lift. It's the flagship of a range that includes the Navy Strength, the world-first Black Bamboo, and the Barrel Reserve. Bright, floral, citrus-driven, and unmistakably Southeast Asian — superb in a G&T with a wedge of calamansi or pomelo, a Martini, or a Gimlet.

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