Cheer to Empress 1908 Gin & Spirits

Jill Weinlein

Victoria Distillers is simply a family-run tiny batch premium gin installation successful Canada. For implicit 10 years, they person produced immoderate of the champion handmade spirits connected the waterfront of Sidney, British Columbia. 

Inside the distillery are copper cookware stills that nutrient a scope of spirits including their award-winning gin. "Each copper cookware inactive costs $250,000," said Peter Hunt, President of the distillery who helped pb the squad successful a collaboration with the Fairmont Empress Hotel to make Empress 1908 Gin.

Since 1908, travelers from astir the satellite person visited the majestic Fairmont Empress Hotel. Hunt was the Master Distiller for 9 years, and has his Master's grade successful molecular biology. "I approached the Fairmont Empress and asked if they wanted to marque gin together," said Hunt during a gin tasting. "We explored the teas successful the Empress beverage country and tasted implicit 20 antithetic teas to infuse into our gin." Blue Suede Shoes made with Butterfly pea blossoms won and is what gives Empress 1908 gin its chiseled indigo bluish color.

Inspired by our beauteous determination successful Victoria, British Columbia, Empress Elderflower Rose Gin pays homage to ‘The City of Gardens,’ wherever flowers blossom astir year-round. The fresh, floral botanicals make a delicate tone with a distinctive all-natural roseate hue, adding a interaction of our location to your adjacent cocktail creation. 

Tasting Notes

Nine beautifully blended botanicals make a delicate tone with a stunning all-natural roseate hue. Empress Elderflower Rose has a affluent aroma and a amazingly understated floral palate. With exquisite citrus and spice notes and a hint of sweetness, Elderflower Rose Gin allows each botanical to shine.

Empress 1908 Oaken Gin

Beautifully creaseless and buttery, this cocktail tone is gracefully matured successful oak, imparting notes of vanilla and caramel. Try Empress 1908 Oaken Gin successful an Old Fashioned, Manhattan oregon Negroni, oregon fto creativity beryllium your guide.

Tasting Notes

Softened vanilla notes from the oak, a afloat buttery caramel sweetness.

Accolades

Double Gold, San Francisco World Spirits Competition, 2016

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Established successful 2008, arsenic 1 of the archetypal artisan distilleries successful Canada, Victoria Distillers uses Canada's best-tasting h2o and finest ingredients to marque their spirits. They moved to their waterfront determination successful 2015.

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Empress 1908 gin offers distinctive earthy notes with a equilibrium of citrus flavors. When making an Empress & Tonic cocktail, utilizing the acheronian indigo colour Empress 1908 Gin, premium tonic h2o changes the acheronian appealing purple to a beauteous lighter lavender hue. Add a portion of grapefruit, and 1 has a refreshing gin beverage.

In 2018 they launched the beauteous Empress 1908 Gin successful the United States. This large prime tone with its beauteous colour not lone tastes large but is approachable. It works good successful making respective cocktails.

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Empress 1908 Indigo Gin

Handcrafted successful tiny batch copper-pot stills, Empress 1908 Gin is created by Victoria Distillers and inspired by the legendary Fairmont Empress Hotel successful Victoria, British Columbia. In summation to much accepted botanicals, we adhd a signature blend of achromatic beverage served astatine the Empress Hotel, and butterfly pea blossom, an exotic herb that balances the accepted citrus notes of gin with a lukewarm herbal earthiness, and earthy indigo color. Empress 1908’s operation of exquisite taste, delicate aroma, brushed texture, and singular presumption supply the cleanable basal for a caller aesthetic of cocktail instauration and enjoyment.

Tasting Notes

A guardant earthiness from butterfly pea blossoms and Fairmont Empress House Tea blend, followed by robust citrus notes from grapefruit peel, delicate floral hints from roseate petals and lukewarm spice from ginger and cinnamon.

Accolades

Gold Medal, New York World Wine & Spirits Competition, 2017 Best Alcohol Drink, World Beverage Innovation Awards, 2017 Judge’s Selection, Alberta Beverage Awards, 2017

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Jill Weinlein

Some of the inspired ingredients too Butterfly Pea Blossom and Juniper see grapefruit peel, coriander seed, cinnamon bark, roseate petal and ginger root.

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Chocolate Liqueur

Fair commercialized cacao nibs and husks, grown astatine Costa Esmeraldas Farm successful Ecuador and refined by Sirene Chocolate Makers successful Victoria BC, are macerated successful a axenic cane spirit. A interaction of sweetness is added to bring retired the spirit of the integrated chocolate.

Tasting Notes

Reminiscent of a good acheronian cocoa bar.

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Sidney Spiced

This aromatic tone is distilled from molasses and Level Ground Trading’s just commercialized integrated cane sugar. The summation of cautiously selected integrated vanilla beans, orangish peel, ginger root, prima anise effect and orris basal springiness this classical tone further warmth and complexity.

Tasting Notes

Warm spice, with a subtle sweetness and agleam citrus note.