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McLean’s Strathaven Hedgerow is a London Dry gin that uses botanicals exclusively foraged within a five mile radius of the McLean’s Gin Lab. Limited to approximately 1,000 bottles annually, every release will have variations based on the availability of botanicals and changing of the seasons. This first release features 11 botanicals including brambles, gorse flowers, hawthorn berries, Scots pine needles and golden chanterelle mushrooms.
Tasting Notes
Flavours
Nose
The nose is light, clean and fresh like a morning walk down a country lane.
Taste
The palate features juniper delivering a resinous, fresh pine along with soft fruits, florals, some herbaceous notes that all intertwine to create a gin that’s rich in flavour, balanced and delicious.
Finish
A long, rich finish.
How to enjoy this gin
A slice of pink grapefruit, tonic and ice.
About McLean’s Gin
McLean’s Gin started in an inconspicuous tenement flat, in Battlefield in the Southside of Glasgow, known as the “gin cupboard”, possibly one of the smallest, nano gin operations in Europe. The newly married Mr & Mrs McLean have recently upscaled to the now “gin lab” in Strathaven South Lanarkshire, where they have increased production to 30l batches, five times their old cupboard capacity! Colin and Jess McLean developed their passion for gin making after receiving a ‘Make Your Own Gin’ kit one Christmas. From here the couple invested in a small gin still that could produce six-litre batches and McLean’s Gin was officially born. With their first gin successfully produced, bottled, labelled and wax sealed, the couple decided to put the time they had spent experimenting with botanicals to good use and have since created a number of unique expressions.
Production
Based in South Lanarkshire, the McLean’s ‘Gin Lab’ isn’t technically a distillery, as McLean’s gin is produced using the cold compound method, however, the Ginnery or ‘Gin Lab’, as it’s affectionately known, provides ample space and opportunity for the team at McLean’s Gin to experiment with new flavours and the development of new products. Some of the more recent McLean’s Gin creations and collaborations, produced using the London Dry and Distilled methods, have been developed and created at neighbouring distillery The Biggar Gin Company.
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