Plymouth English Gin

Soon after Coates & Co began in 1793, Plymouth Gin became a firm favorite
in the numerous countries it was shipped to. The gin drinking of the Royal
Navy considerably enhanced gin’s prestige as it climbed the ladder of
respectability in Victorian times. By the1850 Coates & Co were supplying
over 1000 barrels of ‘navy strength’ 57% abv gin a year to the Royal Navy
who mixed it with angostura bitters or lime for ‘medical’ purposes.

Thanks to the British Royal Navy taking it on board shops all over the
world, it was to become the world’s largest volume brand of gin with 1000
cases a week going to new York alone by the 1900’s. In 1896 the first ever
recipe for a Dry Martini specified Plymouth Gin (which appeared in Stuart’s
Fancy Drinks and How to Mix Them) and by the 1930’s Plymouth Gin was
the star of the cocktail era, and is hence the only gin still around today to
be named in numerous recipes in the renowned Savory Cocktail Book, still
the bible of mixology.

A great depth of flavor, with a wonderfully fresh juniper, lemony bite with
deeper earthy notes. Plymouth has a slight sweetness with extraordinary
concentration and complexity. No single botanical dominates the overall
flavor. The finish is long and dry.

Plymouth Original Strength is a unique, protected style of gin originating
form the city of Plymouth, south of West England. Since 1973 it has been
distilled from a unique blend of 7 botanicals, soft Dart moor water and pure
grain alcohol at the black Friars Distillery- the oldest working distillery in
England.