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Bottled at 49% ABV, Hrafn Gin Valhalla was created as a gin that can be enjoyed neat over ice or in a gin and tonic. A classic gin flavour profile of herbaceous, piney juniper but with the subtle use of mandarin, which creates a complex but well balanced gin that has a creamy mouthfeel. The use of mandarin as a key botanical along with other classic gin botanicals delivers a gin that’s juniper forward before crackling into a lovely, warming spice that transitions into fresh, intense mandarin that lingers on the finish with subtle undertones of warm spice.
Tasting Notes
Flavours
Nose
Juniper swelling into spiced mandarin.
Taste
Creamy and smooth in the mouth. The initial taste is classic herbaceous juniper. Then the journey crackles into warming spices and bursts of pepper that eventually completes into a citrus slide of deepening mandarin intensity that lingers on the palate.
Finish
Long lingering finish of mandarin with prickles of spice.
How to enjoy this gin
A twist of lemon peel neat over ice or tonic and ice.
About Raven Spirits
Brothers Callum and Peter Sim were on a camper van holiday in 2017 that saw them visiting a number of Scottish Distilleries on the West Coast including a visit to Bruichladdich Distillery, home to The Botanist. That night they found themselves sitting under the stars talking about what botanicals would make up their ideal Scottish Gin. As young boys the brothers had been fascinated with Norse mythology, especially the mighty Odin and the story of his two ravens, sitting watchfully over his throne. A plan was literally hatched the next morning and Raven Spirits took flight.
Production
Brothers Peter and Callum Sim spent over a year developing their ideal flavour combination, developing the recipe and testing small batches. Agreeing to distil themselves on site, they partnered with nearby Deeside Distillery to refine and upscale their signature Hrafn (pronoucned Ra-vn), meaning Raven in Old Norse. The distillery is home to a variety of still types, including a modern iStill and a bespoke Adolf Adrian copper still.
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