Bols Genever 100% Malt

Genever is what gin was before England got hold of it, and Bols has been making it since 1575 — the oldest distilling brand in the world. This 100% Malt Spirit expression is the purest statement of the style: no neutral grain spirit at all, just moutwijn, the pot-distilled "malt wine" of rye, corn, and wheat that gives genever its whiskey-like body, redistilled with juniper and the other Bols botanicals and bottled at 47% ABV. Where the standard Bols Genever blends malt wine with neutral spirit, this one is all malt, all pot still — closer in spirit to an unaged whiskey with juniper than to any London Dry. Expect a rich, cereal-driven nose of fresh bread, ginger, and baking spice with a green juniper thread, opening into a full, oily palate where the grain leads — nutty, earthy, faintly sweet — with juniper, pine, and a slight tannic grip that The Gin Is In found could read almost smoky, finishing long and warming. The Gin Is In called the base spirit the star: simultaneously spicy and earthy, baking spice segueing into fresh pine forest. Genever is the original spirit of the cocktail age — the gin in a 19th-century Martinez or Gin Cocktail — and this is the bottle to make them with. It also makes what one reader called a hell of a Martini, and a superb sour with lemon and sugar. Sip it cold and neat, the Dutch way, with a beer alongside. Amsterdam's original spirit, undiluted.

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