Comte de Grasse
44˚N
Comte de Grasse Distillery
ABV: 44%
Country: France
Style: Contemporary
Price per bottle: £41-60 (US$54-79)
Availability: Worldwide
David T. Smith
Nose
Indulgent and perfumed with distinctive aromas of rose and violet chocolate creams, backed up by a sprinkle of baking spice.
Palate
A restrained sweetness to start, mixed with warm, spicy cassia, nutmeg and oily juniper wood. Followed by rose and violet flavours mixed with raspberry, liquorice
and coriander.
Finish
A gentle glow of alcohol is accompanied by flavours of dark chocolate and oily, zesty citrus peel.
Comments
Elegant and graceful with a delightful complexity.
Score
9.5
Phoebe Calver
Nose
This is immediately there with the aromatic spice, but it’s not overpowering, slightly chai-like.
Palate
Those spices wrap you up in a warm hug. Chai latte in both spice and creaminess. Then the spice calms a little to reveal that earthy juniper, floral aromatics, like Turkish delight but not as intense, and rounded out with a citrus edge.
Finish
Delicately spiced and creamy to the end of time.
Comments
This is one punchy gin. Maybe I’m in a good mood, maybe it’s heaven in a glass – who knows!
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