Boxer Gin Unit 1A Hazelwood Towers, London, United Kingdom
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GIN FOR CHAMPIONS
I named my gin in honour of the gin-loving boxer Tom King, the first Heavyweight Champion of the World. Hard as nails, he fought bare-knuckle, and famously knocked back a tot of gin before every bout for good luck. Boxer Gin was created for just such moments – a gin for champions.
Mark D. Hill
Founder
Boxer Gin – 70cl Bottle (Gift Wrapped)
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The Boxer is a juniper forward, London Dry style of gin with unprecedented vibrancy and complexity. The juniper backbone is distilled from the world’s finest berries, foraged from the slopes of Mount Everest in the Upper Himalaya. These extra dry top notes are set against fresh juicy citrus in the form of lemon, orange and bergamot and a background of rich woody spice and aromatic floral roots.
The Boxer difference is most apparent on the nose and on the finish, which are deeper, richer and longer than is usual. We find that the vibrancy of our principal aromatics stands up exceptionally well to tonic, remaining clear even on heavy dilution. When drunk neat or as a gin martini, the softness and luxurious texture of Boxer Gin are most apparent and extremely welcome.
Gold Medal Winner at The San Francisco World Spirit Awards. Great Taste Award Winner
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WILD HIMALAYAN JUNIPER
A champion gin demands world beating botanicals. At the heart of Boxer Gin is our quest to find the world’s finest Juniper berry, and capture it in its perfect state; this search led us to the Himalayas and the wild juniper forests on the slopes of Mount Everest.
Our berries are harvested at peak ripeness and steam distilled fresh on the mountainside to capture every nuance of flavour. This botanical elixir is balanced with fresh bergamot from Southern Italy and then meticulously blended into a heritage gin that we distil in England using a classic Victorian recipe and a 115 year old, antique copper pot still.
Boxer Negroni – 70cl Bottle (Gift Wrapped)
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A gin-based aperitif first mixed in Florence, Italy in 1919. The classic equal parts recipe calls for dry gin, sweet red vermouth and bitter amaro. This strongly flavoured drink requires a powerful, juniper-forward gin. Boxer Gin, with its full spectrum array of Himalayan juniper is the perfect choice.
To create the Boxer Negroni we have collaborated with the Negroni Antica distillery in Treviso, which has been creating aperitifs for over 100 years. Export strength Boxer Gin is balanced by the sweetness of the red Torino vermouth, given bitter notes by the quinine and gentian in our amaro and finished with a dash of mandarin bitters.
To serve: pour two 50ml shots into a tumbler full of ice cubes and garnish with a slice of orange. Add Prosecco for a lighter Spritz.
SIGNATURE FRESH BOTANICALS
When the Victorian ginsmiths were perfecting their formulations for London Dry Gin, London was the centre of global trading with spices and botanicals from around the world ending up on the docks. In the age of steam and sail the only botanicals available were dried – so these are what the traditional gin recipes use. Today that is no longer the case – and we are pioneering the use of fresh botanicals in gin distilling.
Our Himalayan Juniper is not dried but is actually distilled within 24 hours of harvest as a freshly picked berry. Similarly our organic Bergamot oranges are picked at peak ripeness, then peeled and pressed to extract a raw zingy essential oil. Both elements are added after the main distillation process to preserve their vibrant flavours.
BERGAMOT
Citrus Bergamia
Italy
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Bergamot is a variety of sour orange with a strongly aromatic peel. It provides the distinctive sweet sour citrus notes in Boxer Gin (and also in Earl Grey tea). Our bergamot is sourced from Calabria in southern Italy.
HIMALAYAN JUNIPER
Juniperus Indica
Nepal
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Himalayan or Black Juniper grows at high altitude between 2600m & 5200m above sea level. It is intensely piney with distinctive citrus notes. Our berries are foraged from the southern slopes of Mount Everest itself in Solukhumbu District in North Eastern Nepal.
THE SWEET SCIENCE
COPPER DISTILLED
The first step in the preparation of Boxer Gin is the careful distillation of a soft, pure wheat spirit. We use the highest quality grain from the east of England. This grain is fermented and distilled using a combination of a modern tower still and our veteran copper pot still. The result is a gentle, soft spirit with a natural grain sweetness and subtle flavours of grass and hay.
THE BOXER DIFFERENCE
In order to deliver an added vibrancy to Boxer Gin we have created a new process in the production of our gin. Uniquely, we separately steam distill fresh, wild juniper berries to extract their essential oil. This gentle 20 hour process is carried out at source in the Himalaya, capturing each and every delicate nuance of flavour with absolute clarity. Similarly, we also extract a zingy raw citrus essential oil by cold pressing fresh bergamot peel.
LONDON DRY DISTILLATION
The next step is to distill a classic London Dry Gin. We steep our carefully sourced botanicals in our copper distilled wheat spirit, to allow the flavours to be released into it. After an eight hour maceration we transfer the mix into “Angela” – our 108 year old copper pot still – which is gently heated until the spirit is turned into vapour and then condensed back into a liquid. This process fixes the botanical flavours into Boxer gin.
THE FINAL CUT
The final stages in the creation of Boxer Gin is the careful marriage of our wild Himalayan juniper distillate and our organic bergamot essential oil with our London Dry gin; and the gradual addition of the purest water to open up the flavours at a classic bottling strength of 40% and an export strength of 45% alcohol by volume.
