Liquor Cabinet

— No. 46 —

Death’s Door Gin

The hand­craft­ed gin by Death’s Door Spir­its won Wine & Spir­its Best Spir­it award in 2009, so yeah, there’s that. It may have won this award because it’s made from a spe­cial win­ter wheat that only grows on Wash­ing­ton Island, Wis­con­sin. This sus­tain­ably grown red wheat is har­vest­ed in a pris­tine mar­itime envi­ron­ment. The gin is a three botan­i­cal blend of organ­ic juniper, corian­der and fen­nel. The tast­ing expe­ri­ence begins with a bright juniper bou­quet fol­lowed by a mild mid­dle …

— No. 43 —

Dimmi Liquore di Milano

I’ve recent­ly put the Ital­ian aper­i­tif Dim­mi Liquore di Milano into my liquor cab­i­net. It’s been get­ting a lot of atten­tion from the top mixol­o­gist late­ly, and for good rea­son Dim­mi gets its base from north­ern Ital­ian organ­ic wheat dis­til­la­tion. They infuse the base with a rus­tic recipe from 1932 includ­ing assen­zio gen­tile, an Ital­ian absinthe. This infu­sion also includes nuances of: liquorice vanil­la rhubarb gin­seng bit­ter orange (orange peels) Dim­mi also includes a sec­ond, more mod­ern flo­ral infu­sion. This …